Rushden Research Group: soldiers notes

Letters & Notes from the Newspapers

There are many notes about soldiers in the newspapers: those
who died, were imprisoned, and those who survived the wars.

Soldiers in War
(before WWI)

Zulu War - J Willmott 1879

Letter from Ernest King 1899

Soldier's Diary - Boer War

Mr. Gilbert

Soldiers on War Memorials

WWI list of Names

WWII list of Names

Street Memorials

Other Commemorations

Soldiers Recounting Experiences, Battles, and Conditions in WWI

Conditions in War 1914	L-Cpl. Frank Allen - at Mons	Sapper E Darnell 1916	Sergt H. Pendered 1916
Conditions in War 1915	Pte Ralph Attley - 1916	Denton Twins - prisoners	Bandsman Rice 1916
Conditions in War 1916	Pte. Sydney Austin - 1915	Sapper W. Elsdon 1915	Pte. H Rowthorne 1915
Conditions in War 1917	Pte. A. Ayres	Pte. A Forknall - 1915	Pte. A H Smith 1918
	Pte. E Baker - Ambulance	Sgt R Freeman - Gallipoli
	Pte. F Bass - 1915	Pte. Fred Hodson	Musician Alec Smith
Short reports 1916	Pte. Walter Bates - 1915	Driver P W Long - BIEF	Lieut. Smythem
	Trooper Carl Bayes	Sgt. T J Long 1916	Sydney Tilley 1917
	Pte. Q Bayes - at Mons	AB Wm Longland - 1915	'Ubique' - warrant officer
Writing Home	Pioneer A Bell	Pte Sydney H Martin	Gunner A E Upton
	Pte. E Clark - 2nd Northants	Pte. W Mole - Lusitania 1915	A Vorley - Telegraphist 1915
	Pte. Arthur Clifton 1917	Pte. E J Morris - 1915	Pte. H Waring 1916/17

WWI Soldiers Notes
1914	Soldiers Awards	1917 part 1
W'boro' News	Royal Flying Corps	1917 part 2
1915 part 1	1916 part 1	1918 part 1
1915 part 2	1916 part 2	1918 part 2

Wounded soldiers' insignia

Rev. Shaw's letters - 1917/8

Regiments Visiting Rushden in WWI

Rushden Echo, 23rd August 1918

Send Your Soldier Boy a Tin.
Every week one tin of Keating’s.

At the Front, in the Workshop, in the Home, all know that Keating’s Powder kills every insect.Bugs, Fleas, Flies, Beetles, Body Vermincoming into proper contact with it, and these vermin carry diseasetherefore kill them. Sold everywhere, 3d., 6d., and 1s., but see you get “Keating’s.”

WWI Prisoners

Prisoners of War Fund

Prisoners 1915-1916

Prisoners 1917-1918

George Cave 1914

Sergt. T. Newman

George Trussler 1918

Index

Soldiers - Between WWI & WWII

Soldiers Notes - 1920s & 1930s

WWII Soldiers Notes
1940	1942	1944
1941	1943	1945
	Conditions in War 1944
	Soldiers Returning

WWII Prisoners of War
Prisoners of War Fund	Prisoners 1945
Prisoners - 1941/2	Groups Return 1945
Prisoners 1943	Prisoners 1946
Prisoners 1944	Index

Soldiers - post WWII

Soldiers Notes - post WWII

A short Pathé film: http://media.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php/first-world-war-army-bakers/: shows the work it took to provide bread. Army bakers are shown at a bank of clay and brick ovens. They produced cart loads of fresh baked loaves for soldiers in the trenches.
See also 15 Bakers

War Memorial