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STAFFORDSHIRE WEEKLY SENTINEL SATURDAY APRIL IS 19S0 KIDSGROVE’S CTREET windows week to display INCLUDING ..

... Wellington College and Oxford He left the university to join the South Staffordshire Regiment and twice after the battles Loos the Somme he was one of four officer survivors of a battalion He was promoted captain and won the Military Cross for gallantry ...

Published: Saturday 15 April 1950
Newspaper: Staffordshire Sentinel
County: Staffordshire, England
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THE BIRMINGHAM POST MONDAY JULY 3 1950 3 OPPOSITION HAS SAVED BRITISH INFLUENCE Mr Geoffrey Lloyd on the ..

... yeesterday after attending at Aston Parish Church an anniversary service commemorating the battalion’s part in the Battle of the Somme 1916 Col p Docker who took the salute read the Lesson during the service which was conducted by Canon F F G Warman The ...

Published: Monday 03 July 1950
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
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YOUTHS TOOK CARS FOR SMASH A WARWICKSHIRE MAN'S DIARY

... mere list ' tot names Gommecourt, La Boisselle, the Leipzig Redoubt, Sormont Farm, Pncourt, Caterpillar Wood—the First Battle of the Somme had started. Members of the British Limbless Ex-Servicemen's Association who gathered in Coventry from various parts ...

Published: Tuesday 04 July 1950
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
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FOR SMASH

... mere list of names Gommecourt, La Bolsselle, the Leipzig Redoubt, Sormont Farm. Fricourt, Caterpillar Wood—the First Battle of the Somme had started. Members of the British Limbless Ex-Servicemen's Association who gathered in Coventry from various parts ...

Published: Tuesday 04 July 1950
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
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144 PARADE LEAMINGTON

... was head of the research laboratory. Disabled in the first World War. he was awarded the Military Crass during the Battle of the Somme in 1916. He is a W.E A lecturer, and during the last war farmed in Worcestershire. He is married, and is present living ...

Published: Friday 13 October 1950
Newspaper: Leamington Spa Courier
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 243 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

SERVED IN TWO. WARS

... King's Own Scottish Borderers In France. Belgium. Germany and Egypt throughout the flrst World War, and took part In the Battle of the Somme. and the Ypres and Pass . chendale offensives. . During the last war he served with the Royal Warwickshire Regiment ...

Published: Saturday 21 October 1950
Newspaper: Coleshill Chronicle
County: Warwickshire, England
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OVERCOAT

... following year he was transferred to France with the Division, ultimately becoming its senior chaplain. During the Battle of the Somme his work was officially described a? ** indefatigable and in front of Arras the following year he set fine example personal ...

Published: Friday 03 November 1950
Newspaper: Rugby Advertiser
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1798 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Saturday November 4 1950 III CHESTER BAPTIST CHURCH rfREASURE ISLAND AZAAR FRIDAY SATURDAY NOVEMBER 11 held THE ..

... end of hostilities with the rank of captain In France he had been awarded the Military Cross for gallantry during the Battle of the Somme following where he was mentioned despatches on more than one occasion When the Local Defence Volunteers were inaugurated ...

Published: Saturday 04 November 1950
Newspaper: Sutton Coldfield News
County: Warwickshire, England
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DISTRICT NEWS CLAVERDON

... At 19 years of age he joined the Royal Warwicks and saw service in the 1914-18 war, being severely wounded in the Battle of the Somme in 1916. He married Miss Eva Hogg, of Small Heath, and settled at Tattle Bank, where he passed an open-air life. The ...

Published: Friday 02 March 1951
Newspaper: Stratford-upon-Avon Herald
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 870 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

4 Evening Despatch Wednesday May 23 1951 Is th joi Wl he ca: an to H in t f s

... thankful that Private George Wood was unearthed alive when a shell wrecked the dug-out in which he sheltered in the battle of the Somme Medically discharged 1917 Pte Wood became Mr George Wood of 101 Oldbury Road Blackheath and the ex-Service man’s friend” ...

Published: Wednesday 23 May 1951
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
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His Career

... years of age in 1914, and served in the Royal Warwicks Regt. He saw active service in France, being wounded in the Battle of the Somme in 1916, Belgium, Mesopotania and with General Allenby in Pah.stine. He joined the Warwickshire Constabulary in 1921 ...

Published: Friday 08 June 1951
Newspaper: Atherstone News and Herald
County: Warwickshire, England
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... Wa lre w aer kk : s chairman i present time Atherstcne Boys Club. He Is vice in France. chairman of the Nuneaton the Battle of the Somme in 1916. Bei-i Specials' Male Yoke Choir. . mum. Alessopotamia. and with member of the St. Mary's a turri , General ...

Published: Friday 08 June 1951
Newspaper: Midland Counties Tribune
County: Warwickshire, England
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