... Merstow Green School for whom tie played nis tirst football. Later he volunteered fo r the Territorial Army and during the second world war saw six years service in the armed forces. He was one of the first to be chown to play for Evesham United last season ...

... market gardener by trade. he is survived by his widow. one son and four daughters. His youngest son lost his life in the second World War. The funeral took place on Wednesday at St. Mary's and St. Milbur•h's. Offenham. and was eoodfloefl by the Vicar (the ...

... also respectful tributes from such redoubtable foes as the Red Knight Von Richthoven. Following the outbreak of the second World War the R.A.F. as a separate entity has assumed its full stature. Men of a younger generation have been called upon to face ...

... ColditZ Story, and is based on a true-lif e story by P. R. Reid, who was prisoner-of-war at Coldttz Castle during the second World War. The Oolditz Story, which stars John Mills and Eric Portman, is not a war story in the truest sense of the word. Although ...

... 1938 to build new G.P.O. premises on the site—even in those days a new Post Office was badly needed! —but then came the Second World War and the project was shelved. The position locally, however, was eased somewhat by the purchase of a prefabricated hut ...

... Flying Officer Bramwell Bearcroft, named after the Army's second General, Bramwell Booth, was killed in action in the second World War. pERHAPs. after the strange way of newspapers, the order of delivery had become mixed. Anyhow, the paper boy was having ...

... RUMOUR DURING the second World War, on hoardings all over the country, were to be seen such slogans as, -Keep Mum !--we remember, too. that this particular piece of advice caused no little upset to mothers who rightly or wrongly took it the wrong way ...

... Grenadier Guards and was a special constable from 1919 to 1938. He served as a member 01 the Police War Reserve durng the second world war. He was a keen and active member of the Men a Brotherhood and of the Brotherhood Bowling Club which he served as groundsman ...

... consternation throughout the land. Man-made rockets setting off unsuccessfully moonwards. And 13 years after the end of the second World War, threats of more conflagrations, murder of a king In the Middle East, upheaval and violent death in terror-striken Cyprus ...

... Born in Evesham. Mr. Bearcroft saw service with the Worcester.. shire Regiment in India after the 1914-18 war. In the second world war he served in the Home Guard. Family mourners were Mrs. G.l When police recovered the fully, Bearcroft (widow). Mr. and ...

... days he received 16s. a week. He served most of his 38 years with the railways at the Evesham Station. but during the second world war spent two years at Pershore. Although the retiring age for railway employers is 65. Sam. who lives at s:George-street ...

... one for the Duchess of Gloucester. COURAGE NEEDED Though it had been possible to see that those who returned from the Second World War came back to something better than their predecessors, they were inevitably hard hit and pensions did not go very tar ...