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It is 90 years since World War One had ended, and it was the remembrances of that war that prompted me to go in search of Arthur James Christie and just what had happened to him. In an effort to find out what was known I contacted the Leicester Regimental Museum in Leicester and the following is the reply I received. |
"Thank you for your enquiry regarding Arthur James
Christie. I am afraid that I am going to
have to disappoint you because there is not much available on the 53rd
Battalion. As far as I can tell this
battalion was a Training or reserve battalion mainly made up of lads about
18 or 19, from counties in the East and North Midlands." "To the best of my knowledge they did not serve overseas as a unit although some of the older soldiers might have been transferred to other units for service. There were several deaths in this battalion around about the same time as your relative and they are all about 18 and all died and buried in the United kingdom" Philip R. French Deputy Curator I received a further mail from Philip French and he advised me to go to "The Leicestershire and Leicester Records Office at Long Street, Wigston, Leicestershire" for more detailed reports. I did and a piece of history came back in my memory. I was aware that after the war a devastating Flu pandemic had swept through Asia and Europe in 1919, it was Spanish Flu, it eventually killed more than the war had. |
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