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Pte. Albert Cast
British Army 8th Btn. Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
from:Nottingham
(d.8th June 1917)
From the memories of Harry Cast about his twin brother Albert Cast.
While on the Hindenburg Line I had a letter from my father informing me that they had received news from the War Office that my twin brother Albert was reported missing. I only remember one phrase of that letter, the only one I had from him, this was the old Victorian phrase: Keep a stiff upper lip my lad. It was sometime in July that I received a letter from Mother telling me that they had received notice from the War Office that brother Albert had been killed in the German counter-attack on 8th of June 1917. This news really rocked and shocked me.
Albert was only 19 when he was killed. There was no body, his name is on the Menin Gate at Ypres. Harry survived the war, having been badly injured twice, and in later life wrote down his memories and these were edited and published in 2015. The Cast family of 5 brothers all served in the Great War, as did their father.
