Berkshire Chronicle Reading 03-1915

Yr. e.nd. Mra:
h&Yil received thl!
1088 .killed in action.
'he AgamemDon,
bombardmeni of
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Lance-Corporal W. F. Webb i of . tho 2nd
Battalion Royal BerkBhire Regimellt, wh.oM home
it! lit 3, Grenfell Avenue, MaidenlMJId, is thome,
having be en wOlInded by 8br~~I ' in ille cfoot
and mouth. He W8B with hiB regiment in, India
I~ six yeo.rB, and 8aid the men eeverely if.elt the
difference in the climate when ul:ey fiii!il landed
ill Fro.nce.
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Private S. A.' Bailey,

Royal B "rk e bir~ ~ egiment,. whoj"l , ~om<i.is

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6, -r,:rrell'B BUlldmgs, MaH:len"e~ 18 jetiij. III
hospItal, Buffering from a wounded ris:l;~ foot,
which injury he receiyoo ' lUI flU' ~a.Ck , lUI' :!jfoveJQ-

He hop"'" that an young , men ! 'fill do

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their uart in serving their country in. t~"\B wJ!!!~
He ie willing to go again
soon 1118 -I;te I, is ••~ .

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Two more Binfi eld men hllove iJiv,en till~ir liy s·
for tbeir oountry. Private, F. IE _ W\cks, 1st
'Btl.t,t. Warl\~ckshir e R egiment, lYas ' killed in
action at Ypre~ on January 25t~ Hi.! I h 'o me,
WIU! at ROlle Hill, Billfield, Br:wlmcH. ,j Pri.vate
Charle3 Cheney, of Wixc8 Green, BinfieFd; Bracknell, and of 'lhe 3rd Batt. RiHe ,Brig~~, died
of :WOUOOl> in hospital at Boul{)gn lt OIl F l bruar:r

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StOkes',
Kent. Regiment (atto.ched· 16~ I:!;toys,! Be~k5),.. who
was among tl,e officers mentioned in Sir John
French's r eeent di:Bpatch JIDd WII.8 a.w~ed the
Militaq Cress, i8 lying wounded at . #te ,Baee
Hospital at Boutogne: He woo etwck
fragmentlt of an expIodDlg sheU, and Sllstained 1)
broken ,thigh heeides IOBillg two 'finger~. I Lleut,
Stnkes 18 a. 8011 of Dr. and Mrs. F: A ~ Stofles,
formerly of. .. Basingstoke.
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Mr. Charles RIder. Il. member 01 ,the .SalIsbury
Club, h'!8 enlisted 118 ,a private
the ~~mp­
tOil Regun ent, now 'll.t Colchester. Ride:.] i says, in
a leLter to frlendB at Reading :~" The ' b~Miori '
h"" n ea.rlY fipished trninillg, 80 we hav,

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jlta., all day long to catch- up. ' \lou SIl.W ~ t ' w~
ho.d (I visit from an a.eroplalle.. We ha_ to '(lass
, the place whewe the' bombe dr()pped ~o: get to
camp'... RIder'" three brtrl.hers ape aU' with the

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· L.al\ce-Cor~ral L~ck hl'd' ,!'" 'ullp~,ant-ex .
perlence ,whIle taklOg- part 1D the ~ol'al En·
gineerlt" pootomt-bridging operations, w1>ieb were
eon.\!Ijlcted near Henle" Bridge. , lIe .wl'8 1one of
0, 'P9 ~D Cl'e~ and .eaug.l't1; Il,, " c.ra:!J:'·; tmd, )osIng ~e " balde<>. """ pj."OOlpita.ted intO ,midstream. ~~in8 • goO!l '8~inerl h e )kept h imoolt
41fio(l1; desplte the fact- ~a.t, ' .he " w¥ qat>dicappoo
by heav,.l' jook boqt.l!, and;' nfte!- rescuirig his
cap, which w!,,!, ~oi"g with the ~trellm; , he ~an-'
aged to reach I'll&. pontoon In saJety" liitte the
1iI'orse for his unpremedita~ed cPl~ ba,Ut. •
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, Gen6l'tM ·Sir Ian' Hamilton im'pe.cted
qua.rf:erejl &t
were r()uru-~:;~~::~'i iru~hidi:ug
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points agaillit Bristol
ha. aga.in I put tho
game .hould ~ re.c ...rut W ...t}:lam
'Weet Ham 'a;re in
LittOn, oU

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