Berkshire Chronicle Reading 09-1915

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the county
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the nh'n'<; ·n .... n • .
Berkshire
historlo
, Dl(){lern weaO()IlS
'llculLies
Iinquish
~oot . As WII] be
t.he wll in killed,
one. It i. satlsfaetory
.ever ..1 who were first
reported alive,I Bome,
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England Or· e se~ ere. .
It is now pOSBlble
tell
.hire Xeo manry's
The regiment,
J 40th of August, was
II")'B nfte rwa.rds. On
August the 2nd Mouuted .
.hire Yeomanry I'S leadmg
or<lera to move froni behind
La.!!\ B'Q", ~outh We.'It ot thll ,
whole advarlce Wl\8 fully deeeribed
A, hmeoo Bart'ett, when .he ID.ade
lion of !\ grea.t ch .. r~e m~e b~ ,
Div SiOIl , e.s set oU,t III tillS pa.p'lr.
The first P9rt of It he advance lI'llB
cpeD. ullde» heavy ..h
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wn' t he firat time
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netioll , &nd severnl
st'aadiness was malnt,a :ned.
,dth other Yeomanry . then
Chocolate HHL A short
on the Turkilih trenches on ,
At t hi s time Majo.r .E : S .
Colonel H enderson h
In a h03pitn.1 .hip . .and
ulltll the 23rd. The '
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<alloen through our ' fir.s t
hp-I\vy fire, but owing to the nli.Vure of
bv country it was , V ~l'y difficult' to
the enemy 'l" of hie tren,<lhcS.
About 100 yards Bhort of "the Turl';sh
the regiment got IIome cover . behind
ridl(e. It waB here .th e c· clla.rg~" was
A !though there h ..d been m ..ny
regiment the" swept over . the ridge
enemy's trenchea, Major. Goocb ~eing
m ..n In. Parb of the gropnd captured
by th o regiment with ' other 1;eomnnry
th o nex t morning, when, under orders; a
ment wa.s conducted . in good! order. as the
tlon WILS co ~sidered untenable in the

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. , Tr~<!Per :A-~ IFurnice;. Strill~dt
.. ,Trooper .~ T. .
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Trod~r : ,H. ' ·V'''J.'UU!tl,
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. Trooper J. H. Pugh, , 685,
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'.' Ti-b6per R L. W~t,
Whitley' Street,
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~Tro~p~r .Harry G~·. ''l;ayier, 25, ' H:ighgrove

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' • Trooper ' F.. W. . O. P~tw, 64, Edgehill" c ••. "",.,.,
'arm ," bleeding
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Fred Bennett; Reading~ The '
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two.. fir8t",id~' men, '
stead; Wargrnve (Messrs. Hunt ley IWd
tll.tiy dressed
wounds. :,; The 'sights we
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th~t" ml'lonlight night . are, ,on thlS~taI!er, 'l lest left.
Trampeter Percy J : Wheeler, 29, Field ;Road, .out ,-· but I ,,\,iIJ ,try 'an~ MIl ypu' i ~~er we .me.et
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aga.in." From the h98P!tal I went 11" 80. trawleJ::to
' TroPP,e r Albert Wigmo'r e, 2,1, Albany
the .h.o spita(' fihiPJ ~nd from the~e W tbis · '&hip.
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Troop~r Percy Gooch', 1:2, . Stanl ey
Death, lI.ild a good name, too . . I /:n\lBt not say
Reilding.
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how many ,br .our fellow", ~hflre M6;.ie"ft, but ,jllst
T~DOl!·Sergea.nt 8", G. Keuy; ~, NewPClrK c....t an ey'" to ,the casu..l .... list, and ,yo .. will .see
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how we lia.veJ suffered. '. i'th.ink I p.m'. one of : the
. ' S.er.glla':'t·,Altert .$ew ..~, 411, · B~ford Roa,d , .lucI2~~~' chaps.;; alive: ...,. . 'r~aJ:ds, r ~!!ni!.(I~ IUld
Beadmg. . '
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'l'rooper . Arth~ W . ..Andrews, . 12a, . W""t -shell; ',which ,I,. pope to) ke~p . ..~ eW e ~re .'having.
Street; 'Reading. ."
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." I '''Pl~h~d 'foOd .&nd rest . wljiQli de" Q~le of Ithe ~e6t
":Troopel'" W • . Elliott, Reading (14eBBrs. ·Callas, -tonic!!.;, . ,. ' . '1:hll d rFy.·doga,'of. T,;,r!"s reverse'
Sone Bnd "May, Ltd. \.
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. , tlu,lr' bullets; 110 ,that: l ~ wakes a epreoomg wound
Troopert Emery, Reading (~_rs. Sutton ~d wh~re thev )I!t.." ... '1'.1
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ITrooper James: Brookl~nd8, Tilehurst Road, . ChMllbe:rlai!1 . have hea~ .good, ; ne~s fr;n'm -tlie.ir
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son. The ankl'e Is, howeyer, wo""e than a~ fir~t
'!"'ooper Dunn, Queen'. Rr.Jad, Reading. '
a.nticipr.ted, alid is ve~Y'.·painf.ul. ', . Cll"'mberla~n
, Trol]per -Chnmool'lajn, 103, ' ljoriOll<
o,!sp p.of! ~ slig~t ~OUIl~ in the< .J~ft ·leg .. He.",ya
. the Reading.
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th'l>t. t1iey had n splend'd reception ' ,t ,. 'B.n etoJ.
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Trooper J . R . w ...t, Erleigh ROOd, R en4ing... . Chauib ~Wn; who ,is 19, and . was' formerly ' el!l'
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'l'rooper T. J. Bourke, .0)le ot.- the. offic_ers of plo,v ee . as a. clerk at the Reading G~e Work.s,
4held I Exci§e ;and Customs, l!.eadlilg. J '
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anliBt-erl 12 montha ago, !Iond made rapId progress
eArly I ' Sergeant L : Winte~. Abingaon.
in proficien<lY. _
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' Trool?er W. N. Hooke, Abingdon.
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' Trooper Walter 'Long, Abingdon.
READING 'fROOPF.1)'S' ' l~SO.APE.·
Trooper .E. 'GoodGhild , Drcmore, WelliJfgt~n
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THE EXTENT OF THEI CASUA
Trooper Targett, Fin<lhompstead Read;
. Th~ '{ollow.ing is an ~1<iTllct from a. lett~r rccejved
The r egilOOnt wellt into ' ..etion with
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by ' Mrs. Bilfll'B,' of .'~ proxford,'! .Bll.~ingstoke ~Rond,
find 312 men. Of these, 50f1lcer.s ·and
' T(ooper Hal'ry ,Osborne,
llimding" 01'1 S~h fem1ier 'rUh, fi-om·.,l:Iei: SOD, !l'.i-ooper
of other r s nks w ~re .reported as
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Frank-.I-I)lJ;ley ~iggs-;- of the Roy'l! ~e~ks Yeom.. nr~,
or wounded'- It iB stated that' oi
Trooper. H. ' Chasney, Eaet , Hendl:~, Wantage.
In the -Dardanel\es:- . .
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6ergeants Q.nd Zl corper ..ls alld
T""'opel' L.' Bnu.'.ett,·. We.• t 'H~n. 8-.y . .Wa.nt.age.
.. Ani , glad OO -.say 1 '!'ID II:Jl right; did. nc;>t" ·get li,scrawh 'in our, eharge. "th ' ~ ... . dlSO"l'Yt to s,ay :. thet
... e~e among the· caSUaItie~. . SeveJ:.a'I'~
T"~per Guy S.n)th, ,E.,,~ Han y, W antage. ·.
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B erke ·ft'"eo\lumry.:
. " ,a Y<eU ' J.P,: :: O;aJ}no
hav e Bince r~po~t2d .
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S . . Pit.~a~ay,
Mill Str~et, W!l-Il~aj(~. . feom
to 6nd .anygot
of ra
m"" ~ rpals
. . ,vII' . ere -cut up
W e hear that Caotain F. 'HurridilJl ,
TrO?Fer ·F., H&ynea, _\Moull~ r:lens~l1t, ~I\-nt.
IIlW little plJ.rtI06. . . , 'fhen we- filll,Ahed. up the
""e. the adjri!"nt, showed great
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charge three of us got cut olf,; and ' w'l had · t.:. lay
Trooper J . ..w~~, Grove, Wantage.
under ~o:vcr all dav anil icra.wl back at 'nigh.t under
I.ook comm!\na &fler Major Gooch W
in the head ; o.lso tha.t S<'<l. Lieut. H.
TrQoper Alfred '1:. Evans, 53. Ormond R oad,
"II kind" of irre. I was th'e only one to reaell the
(.I08e1 y fo11 ow-oo Ma.jor Gooch inw
Want&'g e (dangerously).
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b"so IIlive. but they h':ve Men ,.tra1fglin~ in ~in ' .one~
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and twos since. Poor -R~. West was. hIt . very
ren eh., '~n d d e.ren ded h'lin w 11 en wo 11 n()
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Trooper W. J . H. enne"", W'm d 501'.
early; hope not badly. . It i. quite impos.ihlc to
It IS Impos51bl~ at present to
a~y
Sergeant C .• Halhda,y, E~on:
cl.BeriOO what it was like: As eo6n as we took tlie
naJl\es of N.C.O. s and men who
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Trooper F. A. Pearce, Old WindsoT.
Turkish tre nc:hes the .hells were bunting rtght
f.ingu il'hed tbemselyes, of whom we hear "1 there
Trooper ' Pottow, 8t. Leonard's A'I"enue, W;nd· I 'inside the trmiche •• Al,ld it was impossible to hold
are eeve r al , but it is '!tated tha.t Pte. F. Potts ~r.
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cli splny.ed exceptio"t\alfy.
!ltfllant COlld1t : in 'I TrQoper Rugers, St. Leonard's, A~enue, Wind· we had ' to get on o.ursolvoo as wdll as we' ooulil.
I 'have' got two' days'. rest .at th., ·l;.ase now'; have.
r e"cuing a wou~eq comrad ~, after ~he; r' bpth sor. · "
Iyil'~ out over _48 • "hOUfS . . und·,s r ,- tl\e
urkl6~
Trooper C. 'Martin ; St. Leonard 's Avenue.
qot a' rotten cold. To see, the fAlllows lying about
tre\lclles nnd nnder"fire, '!o · ~h&t, hIeS nnme h-ouJd, Wind~ or.
wounded 'Ind '- grDaning ~of.. help,. lind ,!9t be. able
Tl'ooper Else ; Slough.
to do ..-I.lything for . the\D, .is . .terrihlo. :rp~. con·
wo!flOpe, in d'.'e cou1'6e. ~ppea.r , i~ ' the is\; , ~f
hOll ours. A full d escrlptlon of hiS galla ' d~ea
T ~ ooper H. J;:. Kirk St. Leo n8 x:d 'e Ave~u,~,
ditio;.s ouff· hero mnke .the figiltlDP:' a& bad as. .t ~",n
nppe~l'ed
the la.st week's iE'sjle of jthis . p~pa. cWiiJd$or. ' . "
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00. Even her~ at the base we are under shell fir.e.
TrDoper F. BlonD, New Ro~d, Wmdsor.
Spme o{ the tro!"p~ th ..t came: 'Out hor~ from ~r~nce
W e are mformed that the ' G ener*- command·
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w.-PICDlC . thero
compa.red
,wltli thiS.
TroPp6l'j A.
Castell,
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ill l! lhe 2nd Mounted Division, in a order
, e}'6cl to 011 rank .. Iiis high appl1ecia o;m of . tbeir
Private J.' R. Cotton, CouMe"Road, Ascot.
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J, UCKY ESCA,PE
A READING
benl'ing 0 11 the fir.t occaeiOD th ey, ~ook part in
0. gene,'al enga~cmeot. an1- tha.t l he wo.tcheil with
Trooper R . Cau,lZht: ' Coekhn.~.
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prid e t.he steadilJe~8. of the movement , from Lala
LancEt-Corporal "H. V. Brill, Maidenhead . _
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Trooper. G. N . Woolqrjdlle , .Mfliid ..nhead. . ..
Ih b", to Chocolate Hill oDd?r t. h~avy . shrn;pneI
fl~e, ~lI d I~ter the gal1antrv ' a!ld deter!nination , Tropper' ~eroort H':'ogood, Marlbo/0ugh H lluse,
(hspl"YB(I· lD the attack.
SpeCial !1lh~lon '.~aR Farin'u;don.
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Sergeant J ohn, T. P. J enlnl1s, Stockholm' F.~r!",
al so m"le of th e 2nd. fMo~nted ~Tlg.ad,: .{-w111c h
Indudecl the B erkshl ~ ~) 111 rea:clunq i HIll 70,..I n Wl)o~ton. ' ! . ,.
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'D'te of hea vy cnsualtles. The Bucks , and J?orset
Trooper .A. Miller, Wlckwood Farm, ~he))m8'
Ye omall r v, b oth of the · 2!ld Mounteil ' ,Br)gade, ford near l",aringdon .
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T;ooper G'eorge Holme, Ma.rket Place, Wall.
It is con 6dentlv Il:nti<ipated ,tb",t ' 1h~ &.c<!ount iOl(foJd. :
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Trpoper Pryor. H1I.rw ~ll.
of th o gn.' la nt bell1J.v loul' of ,the 'B ~J'kshl.~e.- ,jYeo.
m!l.nry ,,'i ll hav~ a good efl'e~t Io n recrmtm,u; for
T,rOoP\lr PryPi, Harwell. ,
La.o<le .Corpol'all Walters. 'Didcot.
th e Nlg iment. R ecruit.s · are ' eLili wa.nte(l" Il.9
<lmfls will probablv shortly ' ba,v e to be ellnt ,out.
Trooperi E. G~'e, BracktielL
All Au il nble men who can possihlv, com!, f~r",a:d
Trooper W. B. Skeltop. Bra<lknell.
'ho" ld do RO without fur ther d ela.y, !apyly"nl' 1Il
Ha.ri'y Alder. Brn<>knell.
per;on or b,y let·ta r to Yeoma.nw H e use, Reading.
Cl1\.ude Spencer, BireckDl'11.

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