... Mr. John Ward. the member for Stoke, has become a Captain in the 11th Pioneer (or Navvies') Battalion. Which will be engaged in trench-digging at the front. There is room in the Battalion for miners, dockers, navvies and excavators, good muscles and a ...

... comes trout Pte. H. Whitby (193941. B Company. sth Biwalion South Wales Borderers (Pioneer). B.E.F. who says there are about 60 North Staffordshire lads in the battalion. The Tunstall and district Daisy Day In aid of the National Children's Home and Orphanage ...

... in England for a few years he feels the cold all the more. Pte. Joseph Gallimore. lath Platoon. D Company, 9th IS.) Pioneers' Battalion, North Staffs. Regiment. B.E.F. (a Tunetall boy) asks for an old accordion or melodion for the winter evenings. The ...

... the fortnight, making the grand total 1.071. The expenditure in the week ending December 4th was Is. 3d., and for December 11th, Q 3 The following casualties were reported:— Pte. Z. It. Roberts. 12th Hotta and Derby Regiment, killed in action on Septe ...

... South &affords. The supplement to the London Gazette announces the appointments of temporary Lieut. W. G. Figg from 11th (Service) Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment to be temporary lieutenant (February lath) in the Cavalry Reserve Regiments; W. A. J ...

... was nothing of special note in the , *band, Smut. Charles Barlow, 7th North Sta ff ord- my part in the fighting. When our battalion eut., h&c been tailed in action at the opening round of the contest beyond one fine DOUBLE is in the trenches I take up my ...