... Memories of First World War FIFTY old soldiers, including Major R. E. Priestley, M.C., M.A., D.Sc., Vice-Chancellor and Principal of Birmingham University. gathered at the Grand Hotel, Hanley, on Saturday and recalled some of their experiences in France ...

... boy messenger in 1901. He served in the Army during the first World War. Mr Perry served 33 years before retiring in August, because of ill health. He served in the Army during the first World War ...

... time at the London Office. but lost his life in the First World War. A sister, Marie. was employed in• the showrooms for 26 years. Mr. Walter Baskeyfield served, in the R.A.O.C. during the', First World War and saw' 2} years' service in Salonika. He has received ...

... Schuol, a Govcrtio: of the North Staffin•dshire Royal Inliimary. He served wita the Novih Staffordshire Regiment in the First World War and was commended for meritorious .A keen v{x , risman. Mr (:,):dill was a prmninent leer 1.-I)..intc7 and crlcketer in ...

... employment, namely, that all stocks were exhausted at the end of the war and had to be replenished . But why, after the first World War, when exactly the same situation arose. was the anti-Labour Government of ...

... tosorrow night. Familiarly known as Barkis, Barclay Baron is one of the founder members lot the movement, and, before the First World War, worked 'with Dick Sheppard, William Temple and Neville Talbot in the Oxford and Bermondsey (Mission Private Traders ...

... rmingham in 1923, and three times, fought the Stouibridge Division of Win-ceFtershirein 1929, 1931 and 1935. During the First World War he volunteered, hut was unfit fcr military sere re. He became a field Officer in France wth the British Red Cross. ...

... Constable After serving in the Army during the First World War. Mr. Butters worked at a Smallwood motor body building firm and later, became a constable in Cheshire Constabulary. He joined Macclesfield Corporation Gas Departmet:t in 1926 as a labourer ...

... 'rationing through 1949. Plans must be made well beforehand to prevent an economic crisis such as occurred after the First World War (he said» Further economic shocks on an a:ready distracted and impoverished world may lead to a complete oreakdown of ...

... fight the ,inadequate pension grants to ex-Servicemen. There was little fear of apathy amongst the branches:) after the first world war it took live years before men' and women began to miss the comradeship of the Services. Soon, men and women of the second ...

... Establishment. of Fauld, Uttoxeter, has been appointed captain of the British Olympic revolver team. In 1918, in the First . World War, before he was 20. he had won the M.C., D.F.C., and Bar, for shooting down 28 German planes. He was awarded the D.S.O ...

... certain amount, but he asked: Has anything really been done for those who were incapacitated or who suffered in the first World War Nothing that will keep uo with the rising cost of to-day. Everyone knows the amount of money required today as a living ...