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... Wheeler c and Dettmar 4. T. Holloway c. and Thomas 3, R. Welch b Wykes 23, A. Benn b Thomas 6, H. Davison c Pratt b Wykes 4, B. Wheeler not out 45, L. Dunham b Wykes 6, Holloway Lewis 4, A. Lin nett c Thomas b Fretwell 0, J. Hayward not out 4, G. Richardson ...

Published: Friday 07 July 1950
Newspaper: Rugby Advertiser
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4717 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

GIFT DAY PROCEEDS

... haipad make tha each a auccaee. A net aauoast of Jtt» It. hae beta aeng to Mia. dicrchill. minuter of Kughy ch cuit (He*. 8. H. Boer arc) paid hit Oral Ti.it to Onadhetunib Hetbodiet Chapel week to aamea OOWnectioa with Boom Miedone. AM. J. H. Mnllor. J.P ...

Published: Friday 17 March 1944
Newspaper: Rugby Advertiser
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1125 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

Sir MERCURY 1M1 “A British General of our steel” FRESH ASA DAISY fresh “Double Ring” makes it possible pipe pipe

... world Sir John Dill was born on Christmas Day 1881 son of a banker grandson a Presbyterian minister Educated at Cheltenham and Sandhurst Dill was gazetted to the Leinster Regiment in 1900 saw service the Boer War and then returned to peace-time soldiering ...

Published: Sunday 23 March 1941
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Mercury
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1588 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THE POND OF TRAGEDY

... man, Jenkin Powell, a miner, went to the assistance of the four boys who were H. Lewis, T. Benjamin, R. Thomas and Ivor Thomas. Oldest V.C., Boer War Hero, Dies JJELIEVED to have been the oldest V.C., Mr. John Doogan has died at Folkestone at the age ...

Published: Thursday 25 January 1940
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 301 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

HISTORICAL GLEANINGS

... Regiment formed in 1824, and these two were united in 1881 as the North Staffords. The first battalion of the 38th and 80th Regiments has a history of over 200 years, being formed in 1702. In 1881 they were united as the South Staffords. These two famous ...

Published: Friday 19 January 1940
Newspaper: Lichfield Mercury
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1032 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Round Theatres THE ARRIVAL POOD-BY13 Mr Chips” first a book by James Hilton then play and recently screened ..

... France v Austria and Russia 1805 (b) Eranco-Prussian War 1870 (c) American War of Independence 1775 (d) first Boer War 1881 (e) second Boer War 1899 U) Home oj Disraeli Jb) home of Gladstone (c) home of the present Princess Royal (a) Rio de Janeiro (ft) ...

Published: Sunday 23 April 1939
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Mercury
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 4722 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

EVENING DESPATCH TUESDAY 19 JANUARY 1937 MISSING EXPLORERS FOUND SAFE ON ANTARCTIC ISLAND Six Men Back In Ship ..

... Hill-Walker is 77 has been senior holder of the Victoria Cross since the of Private John Williams a survivor of Rorke’s Drift Boer War of 1881 Major Hill-Walker then a young lieutenant remained after the retreat Laing’s Nek carry a wounded officer out action The ...

Published: Tuesday 19 January 1937
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 4280 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

-' SUNDAY MERCURY 17 :- i THERE WERE THE TRAMS :' viv'iy'-- HOME OF ROMANCE EMORIES OF BYGONE BIRMINGHAM By

... andTommy Pardoc I ant you But once the Amateur Championships were won time and time again— Bantams in 1SU-3-G-7-9 Feathers in 1881- 13 ond Light-weights in all Birmingham lads 'And as for the professionals the names of Owen Moran Jabez White are sufficient ...

Published: Sunday 17 November 1935
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Mercury
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1721 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

7 EVENING DESPATCH FRIDAY 14 JUNE 1935 OUR READERS’ VIEWS Second Thoughts on Dudley’s “Boy Houdim” ITo Evening AM a

... weird problems I am tendering you this one which may interest many 1879 Date Zulu War 2 lasting years 1881 1 Invert year 1881 and add up 1 1899 Date Boer War 3 lasting 3 years 1902 1 Invert year 1902 and add 2 1914 of Great War lasting years 1918 1 9 Invert ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1935
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1291 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

WOMAN DRUG ADDICT FUTURE TRAMWAYS RESTING COST CURRENT HOUSING ESTATES CAUSE BIG LOSS EVENING DESPATCH ..

... cavalry leader— he raised Dennison’ij Horse the Zulu War and Dennison's Scouts the Boer War— has died on his son’s farm at Hungerford (Southern Rhodesia) During the Boer War Major Dennison was a prisoner in the same camp as Mr Winston Churchill Like Mr ...

Published: Wednesday 22 June 1932
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 3479 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

EVENING DESPATCH MONDAY 11 APRIL 1932 5 LITTLE DESPATCHES Screaming Man in Court WHILE Mr Justice Clauson was ' ..

... Erdington £10 (and a guinea costs) for driving a motor-car while under the influence of drink Henley-ln-Arden Remand Frederick Thomas Smith aged 43 a poultry-breeder of no fixed address was at Henley-in-Arden to-day remanded till Wednesday on a charge being ...

Published: Monday 11 April 1932
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 3724 | Page: 5 | Tags: none