HEANOR OBSERVER
1916
FOUND HIS COMRADES GRAVE
AN EHO OF THE SHERWOODS VISIT TO HEANOR

Heanor people will not yet have forgotten, the men of the Sherwood Foresters who received a considerable
portion of their training in the town some fifteen months ago. Some have fallen in the fight, and they all 
appear to have got widely scattered along the battlefront. A letter has been received from one of them this 
week, which has pathetic interest in that it refers to finding of a the grave of a friend, who lodged with him 
at Heanor, and who was killed some months ago. Pte Arthur Pacey, of the Grenade section, 5th Sherwoods,
is the writer, and the dead soldier was Lance-Corpl George Linacre, the former came from Codnor and the latter
was well-known Pye Bridge tradesman.

"I am still surviving the risks of war and am glad to tell you that we have taken our part in the advance, and 
are now enjoying the pleasure of holding a "CUSHY" part of the line. We can hear heavy bombardments on 
both our flanks, so we know that someone is still going through it. At present we are having the best of 
conditions in the line, and the corn fields just behind remind us of dear old England. 
I have seen poor George's grave. It was in the cemetery just out of the place we trained at for the charge. 
I am glad to say he rests in a nice shady place amid some of his comrades and French soldiers. 
We have just been talking about some of the times we had at Heanor, which was one of the best times 
during our soldier's career, and is often talked about when all we old boys are together in our dugout.

The author of this letter (Pte Arthur Pacey) was later killed on the 10th March 1917