{"id":16808,"date":"2026-03-27T18:01:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T17:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/?p=16808"},"modified":"2026-03-27T18:13:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T17:13:59","slug":"16808","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/?p=16808","title":{"rendered":"Come Home to Rest"},"content":{"rendered":"
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ARTICLES of GENERAL INTEREST<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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COME HOME TO REST
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I was a young boy about ten years old, and I had come from my home in Wenvoe to meet my parents at St Mary\u2019s Church. They had gone to the ten o\u2019 clock service. I wasn\u2019t feeling too good that day, so had stayed home.<\/p>\n

I arrived at the small park between the Wenvoe Arms and the church and saw a man sitting by the monument. The man was dressed in a brownish green uniform with a coat to match. It was full of mud; the man’s face and hands were covered in dark smears too. He had a peaked hat and a long rifle lying next to him on the ground. His boots, which were also dirty, seemed to be like hobnail boots that workmen wear. Across the man\u2019s face there was a bandage that went around the top of his head covering his left ear. This was also dirty.<\/p>\n

\u201cHello\u201d I said, \u201care you waiting for someone?\u201d \u201cYes\u201d, said the man, \u201cI am waiting for my Mam and Dad to come out of church. They always go to the ten o\u2019clock service.\u201d \u201cWho are you?\u201d asked the man. \u201cMy name is Julian\u201d I said, \u201cbut my friends call me Jules.\u201d The man turned round to me and said, \u201cMy name is Terrence Gormley, but my friends call me Terry.\u201d He looked about twenty years old and when he shook my hand it felt cold and wet.<\/p>\n

\u201cDo you live in the village\u201d I asked. Terry looked at me and said, \u201cMy Dad works on the estate in the village, and we live in one of their cottages. I have just come back from fighting at the Front in a place called the Somme.\u201d \u201cWhere’s that?\u201d I asked. \u201cIt\u2019s in France\u201d he said. \u201cWhat\u2019s your gun called?\u201d I asked. \u201cIt’s a Lee Enfield rifle\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow come you went to war\u201d I asked. Terry said \u201cA few of us from the village joined the Welsh Regiment in 1915. I got hit and was sent home to rest. I got the boat to Dover, caught a train to Cardiff, then a milkman gave me a lift to Wenvoe on his cart.\u201d \u201cWhere did you get hit?\u201d I asked. Terry pointed to his ear which was covered by the bandage. \u201cI guess I was just lucky\u201d he said. \u201cOh, by the way\u201d said Terry, \u201cwhat’s the date today?\u201d I looked at my watch. \u201cIt’s 11th November.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, I guess I might walk up to the church to meet my parents\u201d I said. \u201cI’ll just wait here to meet mine\u201d said Terry, \u201cand I might catch a glimpse of my girlfriend Nelly, if she has gone to church.\u201d As I walked up to the church, the bells began to chime, and I saw my parents coming out. I ran to meet them, and they asked if I was feeling ok now.<\/p>\n

I told my parents what had happened to me in the last half hour. They looked concerned and asked me if I could take them to where I met Terry. When we arrived, my dad said \u201cThis is the First World War memorial to the fallen servicemen from Wenvoe.\u201d There was no-one at the memorial, but my dad asked me to repeat the name again of the person I had talked to. \u201cTerrance Gormley,\u201d I said. My Dad looked at the fallen names from the village and found a T. Gormley on one of the stones.<\/p>\n

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ARTICLES of GENERAL INTEREST COME HOME TO REST I was a young boy about ten years old, and I had come from my home in Wenvoe to meet my parents at St Mary\u2019s Church. They had gone to the ten o\u2019 clock service. I wasn\u2019t feeling too good that day, so had stayed home. 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