Back to Book dedicated to the memory of 2nd Lt C W N Garstin, 9L KIA 24.8.1914 including 23 photographs, and a brief account of his life
Photographs
Item 0018
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Image details
| Accession number | 912L : 2239 |
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that he had seen the body of a IX Lancer officer on the field after the charge , but that a shell had disfigured him beyond recognition ; on looking at the underclothing , however , he found it marked with the name of C. Garstin . Lieut . Peek , IX Lancers , who was taken prisoner after the charge , sent a postcard from Germany , dated October 23rd 1914 to the Depot , on which he had written " Charles I buried myself night of August 24th . Death absolutely instantaneous . " January 1915 Lieut . Peek managed to send home his diary to his mother by a doctor , in which he wrote that he and several of the captured Cheshire officers were allowed to go and look for wounded after the famous charge , but only found " poor little " Charles Garstin , whom we buried that night with one of the " Cheshires in the churchyard at Andregnies , the Abbé Souday " reading the Service " . - Col. Campbell wrote to Charlie's father after his death , " He is a very great loss to the regiment , he was an excellent " soldier and a charming boy , and he has died like the gallant " boy he was , charging with his Regiment to save the Infantry . " I need hardly say how bitterly sorry we all shall be . .He proved " was a gallant boy and a true IX Lancer " himself a true ninth Lancer and died like one . " " to me . 1 Capt . Francis Grenfell wrote , " He was so brave and calm and he died fighting . " In another letter he wrote . " I spoke I must tell you " to him just before we started to gallop I cannot say more " there was no steadier officer under fire . " than that he is a very great loss to my regiment and especially I can tell you all he did , before he died , fighting - I have been your boy's " Icannot say how sorry I am for you . " leader and have led you to sorrow . " A trooper in the IX Lancers , a reservist , waiting to go out to the Regiment , wrote " I was very sorry to hear that In He - |
