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Edwin, a bear necessity

... favourite of Lt Percy Kynnersloy-Baddeley, goes up for auction today. The young officer, who was killed during the Battle of the Somme in the 1914-18 war, kept Edwin the bear Inside his tunic as a reminder of home. ...

Published: Tuesday 20 September 1994
Newspaper: Reading Evening Post
County: Berkshire, England
Type: | Words: 45 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Reading Vicar's Military Cross

... Farces at the Front, has won the great distinction of being awarded the Military Crass for devotion to duty during the Battle of the Somme. , A l'ew..tr ti. ii , I. v ~,,,, ...

Published: Saturday 21 October 1916
Newspaper: Reading Standard
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 68 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

serial 4.35 Dungeons and Dragons 4.55 John Craven's Newsround 5.05 Duncan Dares Peter Duncan becomes a stuntman ..

... of the law. Warren Mitchell and Dandy Nichols star 10.00 Wimbledon Tennis Match of the Day 11.00 Battle of the Somme The first day of the Battle of the Somme was the worst in British military history. In less than 24 hours 60,000 British soldiers became ...

Published: Thursday 26 June 1986
Newspaper: Reading Evening Post
County: Berkshire, England
Type: | Words: 229 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

GUNNER R. LUSTY

... Caversham at the «I;nt.h of their second son, Gunner Refmafi Lusty, R.F.A., who was killed in action on July ¢ in the battle of the Somme. The captain, writing to his mother, said: “I 1 am v sorry to have to tell you that your son, who ha:.Zoen in the battery ...

Published: Friday 28 July 1916
Newspaper: Berkshire Chronicle
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 273 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

MILITARY MEDALI

... MILITARY MEDALI Corpl. F. G. SMITH, Hants Rept., of Aldermaston.—Awarded the Military Medal for gallantry during the Battle of the Somme, POPULAR POST OFFICE OFFICIAL Mr. T. MUCGINS, lately super- I Intendent in the Post Office, Reading. • new Postmaster ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1918
Newspaper: Reading Standard
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 79 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

WINDSOR EMPIRE. For week ending Oct. 28th. MONDAY, TUES. and WEDS.: Special Feature I EBB TIDE Featuring ..

... and SAT.: The Poisoned Kiss. In 2 parts, and THE CRUCIBLE OF FATE, A Drama in 2 parts. Commencing Monday. Oct. 20th. BATTLE OF THE SOMME In 5 reels. Admission - 7d., 5d., 4d. Including Id. War Tax. Nightly from 6 to 10.30. OBILDRZWI MATINEE. SATURDAYS. ...

Published: Saturday 21 October 1916
Newspaper: Windsor and Eton Express
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 72 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

as medically unfit

... and served continually from 1914 to 1918 as a front-line soldier. He was decorated three times for his part in the Battle of the Somme. Later he fought the Communists as part of a British Army relief force in the freezing cold of Archangel, and buried ...

Published: Friday 05 January 1973
Newspaper: Reading Evening Post
County: Berkshire, England
Type: | Words: 71 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THIS flashback picture takes William Pearce more than 50 years back in time, to when he fought in the trenches

... when he fought in the trenches along the Somme in the First World War. Then. he was a young lad of IN. fighting like an other man in France. Today. he is 72. and still vividly remembers the first battle of the Somme. At the tune the picture was taken. ...

Published: Thursday 04 September 1969
Newspaper: Reading Evening Post
County: Berkshire, England
Type: | Words: 90 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

READING LADIES TO HELP

... Ladies, you have worked nobly for French, Russians, Belgians and Serbs. Go and see the great official record of the « Battle of the Somme.” See the crateful smile of the wounded soldier receiving first aid as a cigarette is handed to him, and make one effort ...

Published: Friday 01 September 1916
Newspaper: Berkshire Chronicle
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 103 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Ladies can do anything, even raise enough to send out the local papers again. Would not the boys just bless

... Ladies, you have worked nobly for French, Russians, Belgians and Serbs. Go and see the great official record of the Battle of the Somme. See the grateful smile of the wounded soldier receiving first aid as a cigarette is handed to him, and make one effort ...

Published: Saturday 02 September 1916
Newspaper: Reading Standard
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 101 | Page: 4 | Tags: none