Berkshire Chronicle Reading 02-1915

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m the W",kingham
arrived on .So.tur-

Arthur HennI., PerBerkshh-e ' Regiment,
the R;ver . Aieno, .
MI,io,r-(J-enel,al Sir 'l'homae Per- '
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offioors. abl.. t6
DOW "'hill :
.pldier and the
their a\bletiCil for .
re8l.tI>DOe. , So ~ay8 a ' Bel. '

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Mr. R. C. Moul'!;,'
lieutenant ()(. til..
Mount ca~
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in Septem·
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Engineere,
Alan MOlmt. ' .

on Oxford.
Infantry. writ.
much the' ~ari:i.
snow and sha.l'p
-;;-p'\~;h~';"I went
some brighter
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to France
early promotion.

that everr' '
spend lUI III
there Iwere I
had g.reat,1
many people l

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Home toC~lIm·
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H. Brownmg. late
Windsor. their'
1~8__ ' tljey
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of 00 , promising I
This "resolution

the German
Royal County
, ;. " The Maq
by MIl!!81"B.,
the Royalty
t!~yed .. t
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a · bqllfdinga band of
Govemme:at
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The five brother8 GooCeIloogh, of
A rmy, and the three pho.tos r:.~lr:.~'g~~~~~r:~l
At the head of the group is I
is bome. on sick furlough recovering '
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a CorporoJ in the Rifle Brigade, .. nd on thQ right
Oxford and Buck8 ,Light Iufantry,

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PRACTICE ' ~N ,BOMB TlIROW[NG _

ONE W-OUNDED: r.J.'HE OTHER K,ILLED ,

Pri~ate ~hom"-" ~Ider.

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of the
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The following is an ' extract from a letter ~ nt
th,e , So.ntl\ :A.!t\?an }~a.~, Rnd was, «apea l¥J' as 1\ by P.riv:ate \yilli!lom Fis/ter, of the 2nd Batta(~on
ReearV18t 'at the ~)Utbreak of 1 the P.r~ent i great R '1 B kBh" " R . ' t t h' ' mother at
conflict. 'h~ i'~~M , ~ounde~ . in, the, ~igl!r leg. , and
o::a , ~ r " lre
egunen , J 0 , os.
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, is now, o\l .I\If,),\t,J eave a.t Ius hdme, . 23,. :,soun!iry Nljl~8IIlIiead • .~~o hILS an?tlier so1\ III the . st
Street.l Re!ldiQ!!. ',His brotl\er. who' was , ai&o a Batta.liQn-Se,r geant H. A., Fisher, who has, b,e.l
Reservist , r~\djoJl at Cholsey, Berlls. ' Was killed ' (",me wounded:,;.-" We had a good time in fhe
~n January 6th. .
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trenches this time. The weather was fine, ~nd
we had no • CQsu~lt;es
in the company. ,We were
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noarly blown o ut one dlty by big guns.
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G-ermans a.re very rond of shelling a. chu ch
lI\x)ut 100 yards ' behind us. a.nd Borne of tl etr
€hells \Iit , \)II,r trenchoo, but no one, was h 4 r t.
Our a~i1!ery, gave th~1l\ some hot Lme.s . ,One
night they opened rapid fiN, for about llll.lf an
hour, and it )vas, tbe finest "lght I .have se~n, I a.1l
the shells bursting round the German pOSltIonB.
0> Only about , Olle in ten of the
German' 6h~\ls .
burst. Thei,i- 'l!JDmunition ill very ba.d.
I "'ave
'. &3 0n 50 shells fired at a church. ILnd i.t is 1t.ill
standin!!! We 'h lLve to b~, careful of their ma~lm
gupIiers. who are very .qUlck. W!,en we eam~ lout
of the treuches a maxim wao gOll~g on ~)Ur ~l~ht,
so you can !'uess we had to hop It .. bIt hv,,".1y.
am going through , a eourse of bO",lb ~!Iro\ving !
for such timM .lIB we come ' to close gTlps.
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Park R9a.d, Uea,ding. h~ve a spler dld

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rOC<)I'({ of sE)rvice in connection With the wa.r.
.ih'"ameshomei.siinba.athe r~Jom~
N.a~y. and after '" ~~~rt ViSif to
H.M,S. ASBlstanee, on
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DRIVER'S' lN'l;ERJ~S'fING
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BROTHERS ON ACTIVE

Priv,a.te 1Beckley, the son of
Reading.
to pO~JD()uth preparatory t<;>
fordsbire and BuckinE!hamshire
the front. He ho.s hegn
BulferinIJ from 0. Bhatteroo
in the leg' .received at Ypres. ,
brOKe oub Bookley W!IoS employM
by Dr. Holli8t, of Ma'denhea.d. I\-n,O<1:lOJ;
Mrs, Church is Berving on ,
Eli zIlbetlli
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Ken6i~gton , Road,

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M..-a. Wells. of ;73. W:atlingl-on St~et. Reading,
has four Bons, serving , with his .M"jestY·B "Rorces,
',in addition tn.' two foater-sons and a ,son.on.law,
wl.i!"t the ~a..£tee8 --brother ./lfIfortuna.tely,1 went
down on the lll-fated Aboukir. " ,
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Driver William P. Welle
in the Royal 'Field
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'I broke "out an<!. ()n boTng calJejl up ,h as been at the
. front 8,~e prootieo.Uy tJie ebmmence~erit.
StRnley, J .• , Well~, hI'S bee~ ·in the t:l\'vy f'!r . a. 1
period of, lI;re 'yea.l'fl" a.nd . 1.8 an able·8'i llman . , He I
is serving ;on the RattleBna~e .
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Lieutenant V. Wells is attached to 'the .Light
Horoo i "'usuali..n ' ElIiPediti~n, ~nd is belie~ed, to
be l at/the present tim~ in Egyp~. . He, prevIOusly
8erVed f<ir' ,a numb~r of years In thE' , ROYl\ll
Marines . ,. .. . ;,' r
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is ie a.s\sociate4· with - the' Berk·
ArtiUeb . and is 'stationen in

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in the trenchoo s.ys: "We cann~ o~
about, muab by day. eo tpere 18 a
to' headquarters and to t,he t rcnche.
l<1f us.

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teleph'onoP> opera-tors

.thoir timo ~endinl{ th rough t.be late8~ ,
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and then ishouting bhem 'down the
got tl>",\" through yestei d.. y. they
Bend ' through the mm'6, th .. t we
Lie,rm.nn cruiser. and all tJ10 othor news,
footb~ll first.
So wo aro quite

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Stevens ~ro W8B for sev';,r..l y-e'e.r80
, of ~a1th~,, ' Depa.rtment in
an a""ista.rit sanitary ind. 1.1Poi'ition which he resigned 1,0 ,take up
a.ti Southall. is serving with
' France. Mr. ; SteYens ia
Readin g 11 os tl)-:FJiria~:8~~i~,fl(t.~~~~"~~1
the
ch ..irs of ' and
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of hiB leaving ' Reading one of its

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