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Members (M.8.E.)

... League; George Henry Edwards, under-manager, Kingsbury Collieries, Ltd.; Miss Eily Tolley Gayford, principal trainer of women crews for canal boats. Herbert Glover, honorary secretary, Stratford-on-Avon Savings Committee; Arthur Barker Hatton, technical manager ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1945
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 246 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Working Mother of Eight

... Gen. Eisenhower’s chapffeuse, Mrs. Kay Summersby, gives the names of 1,070 men and women. The awards are 200 ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1945
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 790 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

BIRMINGHAM MAN, 77, NEVER LATE FOR WORK-B.E.M

... General Eisenhower’s chauffeuse. Mrs. Kay Summersby, gives the names of 1,070 men and women. The awards are 200 (18 women) 0.8.E.5; 371 (77 women) M.B.E.s; and 489 (59 women) B.E.M.s, and there are ten commendations for valuable service in the air. 0.8. E ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1945
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 708 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

BOY DROWNED IN CANAL

... BOY DROWNED IN CANAL A six years old Coventry boy, Graham Westfield, 38, Close, Stoke Heath, Coventry, was drowned in Coventry canal, not far from his home, last night. Artificial respiration was applied after the boy had been taken from the water, but ...

Published: Thursday 26 April 1945
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 172 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

CHRONICLE AND ADVERTISER SATURDAY MAY 5 1945 TAM WORTH Women’s Annual Meeting final annual general meeting of ..

... Parliament and as separate Women’s Conservative and Unionist Associations have been formed in each of the proposed new constituencies the former Women’s Association be hereby dissolved and that the assets be divided between the two new Women’s Associations” LADY ...

Published: Saturday 05 May 1945
Newspaper: Coleshill Chronicle
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4968 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

CHRONICLE AND ADVERTISER SATURDAY JAN 27 1945 A GREAT Origin And Growth National Council of Women of which there is

... likely to be of service to women workers (2) To promote the social moral and religious welfare of women in general (3) To organise Conferences of Women Workers and assist the formation of local Unions and Meetings of women and to increase sympathy and ...

Published: Saturday 27 January 1945
Newspaper: Coleshill Chronicle
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 5977 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

BRAVE MAN’S ACTION

... BRAVE MAN’S ACTION Mr. Coleman ran the side of the Coventry Canal and saw an aged men in the middle of the canal. He at once jumped into the canal, and, after a struggle, brought the man to the side, where another man assisted in getting the old man out ...

Published: Friday 15 June 1945
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 152 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Readers’ Letters

... well-dressed men and women. Their selfishness and roughness is most conspicuously shown in the shops, buses, cates, restaurants, places of amusement, and on the footpaths of the city’s central streets. Yours, etc., B. The Canals Sir, —While it is true ...

Published: Thursday 18 January 1945
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 230 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Prisoners Reach Suez

... arrived in the Suez Canal yesterday on its way to Britain. Soldiers stationed locally went on board with hundreds of letters and about 1,000 cables for passengers. The Manowai is the first ship for Great Britain to reach the Suez Canal from the Far East ...

Published: Friday 28 September 1945
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 341 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Germans

... sectors oi the citv lying along the Danube canal and by talking with citizens who spent those five days of hell, from April 10 16 cowering in their cellars. Servicemen at the Hippodrome Over 2.000 men and women in the Services including 300 wounded mainly ...

Published: Wednesday 01 August 1945
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 150 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Luftwaffe Losses

... men and women mobilised for war work, more than a thousand are singled out for honours in this list. There are two hundred awards of the 0.8. E., of which eighteen to women; 371 become M.B.E.s, including seventy-seven women ; and fifty-nine women also are ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1945
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 861 | Page: 2 | Tags: none