Berkshire and The War: the "Reading Standard" pictorial record. Volume 2. p 268
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| Title | Berkshire and The War: the "Reading Standard" pictorial record. Volume 2. p 268 |
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| Date | 1917 |
| Page number | 268 |
| Publisher | Unknown |
| Description | Not available |
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A TOUR OF STRICKEN SERBIA.
The tragedy of Serbia compels the sympathy of the civilised world, and not less of Berkshire, a resident of which toured the devastated parts of that stricken land and related his experiences in speeches in towns and villages of this county. Mr. W. J. Henman, J.P., of Reading, went to Serbia as Commissioner of the Royal Agricultural Society of England and the
Royal Horticultural Society, his purpose being to study its needs in the matter of farm seeds, stock and implements. He painted a thrilling picture of the ruin and poverty and disease which stalked Serbia after the Austrian invasions and he illumined it with accounts of the indomitable courage of the wronged little nation. He mentioned, for instance, a meeting with a 12-year-old boy whose father had been killed in battle and whose mother had died of fever and who himself was guarding the railway and was helping to keep his four little brothers and sisters. A similar tale was told by a girl of 17 who was ploughing. All over Serbia the women were nobly carrying on agriculture. Owing, however, to the dearth of cattle a large area was lying waste. Starvation threatened the inhabitants and the societies represented b y Mr. Henman aimed at averting a famine by supplying seeds, stock and implements, for which the public were invited to subscribe.
[photo, portrait] MR. W. J. HENMAN.
FROM HEN TO HOSPITAL.
The National Egg Collection for the Wounded has no harder worker than Mrs. Max de Bathe, controller for Reading and district. She has the organisation of an area extending to Basildon in the north west, Eversley in the south, Waltham St. Lawrence in the east and Bucklebury in the west, and every Saturday morning she is in attendance at Reading Corn Exchange for the purpose of receiving gifts of eggs or the wherewithal to purchase this nourishing food. Between the end of M arch, 1915, when the depot was opened, and May 13th, 1916, the collection had yielded 115,196 eggs, and 2,700 go every week to the nine war hospitals in Reading, which receive a supply three times a week. Nevertheless, the demand for eggs never decreases and it is hoped to maintain the supplies when they are scarce, for the most appreciative letters reach Mrs. de Bathe and other organisers of this excellent movement.
[photo, portrait, exterior] MRS. MAX DE BATHE. [Photo by C. E. May.]
Sons of Mr. and Mrs. W. ROBINS, Goosey, Faringdon.
[photo, portrait] The late Drummer ALFRED ROBINS, 1st Batt. Wiltshire Regt. - Killed in action. Aged 25.
[photo, portrait] Pte. EDGAR ROBINS, 1st Batt. Royal Berks Regt. - Wounded.
[photo, portrait] Pte. WM. ROBINS, 5th Batt. Royal Berks Regt. (Machine Gun Section) Wounded.
[photo, portrait] The late Pte. WALTER ROBINS, 5th Batt. Wiltshire Regt. Died of wounds. Aged 19.
Sons of Mr. and Mrs. GEORGE MAY, Hampstead Norris.
[photo, portrait] Sgt. ALBERT MAY, 3td Batt. South Staffordshire Regt.
[photo, portrait] Pte. FRANK MAY, 1st Batt. Royal Berks Regt. - Wounded.
[photo, portrait] Pte. GEORGE MAY, 8th Batt. Royal Berks Regt. - Wounded.
[photo, portrait] Pte. EDWARD MAY, 1st Batt. Royal Berks Regiment.