Reading Mercury Oxford Gazette 04-1917

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AND BERKS eOUNTl' P
LlEUT .cOLONEL THORNE KILLED

'BEADING NEWB

21.1917.

LOCAL APPOINTMENTB

IN ACTION

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PROMOTIONS
The K Ill! paSS<ld throogb Read ng on hi> W1I.y
too Sal sbury on 1 uesday

'fO ~l:) l:lI!;RKS C om: 'I'Y Cow<ClL.

been

Sill. pe do s e ~nts &(0 bapeeD\pg on tbe
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e.tern font

One of tlie

greatest

"ba.ttles o f the m ghty vat
s the German
offie al de: cr pt on of tI e F ench offens ve
w-h ch ope ed thts vcek
In numbers of
men e ngaged n 1 rod ga.lity of a.rma.ment
and

n un tv of orgalU6at 00

our SIde th s campa gn

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hun an expe encc even d rIng the present
wal
sa.ys -one of t h e wa.r correspondents
th -All
th
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on the Sf at.
app y or
El
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e
campa gn o f 1917 has opened a.u sp Clouslv ment.. Tb06e ho hn e had a 1 tt,le
The Germans boasted that thev bad
be very elcome

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1!'rett~.r

) lectrol)1ilS ]a.ce Mall68ge

curB and Chiropody

REGULAR FORCES INFANTRY
ROYAL BERKSHIRE REGIMENT

Second L eutenant Bertram Warner London
RegtmenL w bo was educa.ted at RCiI.(hng School
has
killed
Second L eutcoant A D B 'eacb }.! C son
of M 1> B ellCh of Read ng has boon ma-de
t.empol'3ry 1 eutena.nt ( om March 18th
'I 'wo bus n.cS6 prem ses lD K ng s Road R-ead
og have been t ern po Mily closed ow ng to tLe
absencc of the tcmmts
tl the Forces
An cxcelJeot pr ogr'&Illme s t.o be subrn ttq I at
the ooncerl. of the Rood ns Ph lha.nnon e So
c eLy next. Wedne:>da}
:Seo ad t
a grand normug concert 0 a. d or t.he Br tl8h
Club fa Be s an so dien: 15 to be Slven on Wed
nesday May md
The Rev
f\.Ured Goetz Vlca. of
Bndge Hudd .. fie d
formerly of SI. J()l n s
Read ng has
n appo nted to the TOct.o) of
Lock ood Huddersfield-pat on tl c V ar of
Almondbm-y
The Wa. Office Sunp) Depot Dnke SI. "Cd
Readmg
II be verY pleased 1.0
ea. of any
wl l ns vorke !; for tbe
oed 'Ork DS depa t

SPECLLLl A"I:

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Phon.o No 161

Temporsrv Second Licu~na.D t W C Likeman.
t.tached to be temporary second heaten
fW t. Ya.y 3 d W I"
Roecond L c Le a. I; C ~ollet M C
Do set. Rcg men Spec a.l .Reaerve MarQI

from

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Thf188 NOT I CE S (-w ble1l must " autJumt:i.cated
vnth th~ Nawe an I Ad lr ess oJ tho sender) 1.1..

ch&1't;e&ble as a.dvert:iso.w.c.nu a.s {ollowa -

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for evary add cow h oe, tid oJ:tra
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No o.udo 611.
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ROLL OF HONOUR
KILLI.O IN A CTIO)l
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ested f oro s t1 e Imt atlve
tbey b e
BERK8Bm.:E H OSPITAL - Week e ndIng
t.b
had
t I ,~.un(iay , !\.pr J loth HIl7 In patients admitt.c :1.
1 eyed tha t by fallioe; b a ck
ey
upS'e S9 ill pa.t. on s dh;cha. ged as
operatiOll8 per
the Allies plans
Such 1 mgnostlcat ana fo med 37

have b een abundantly falsilicd SiT Doug
lu.s Ha g ~ truck a.t the trmc. and place he
a.d ap oo n ted a. d the. lesnIt of 1 So grea.t
concentratlOn of a. t llcry a.nd men ha~ been

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DE A.TH

::iee n
the ca;ptu e of p ;vard of 11 000
pnso ers a.nd ()OQ gun and the mp ess ve
s bJuga,t on of tl c German caun w r attacks
Th e wal co respon lonts have suppl ed
graphIc details of the destl nct~Qn of the
enc 1 y fo cos vrucb have attcn pLed LO

... cst fron ns cal t nTed

!;en

tory

while

LI c abaudon neDt of } uge qua-nt tle~ of wa.r
m te rml n t l c em r ons of L ens
shows
so 0 sly the mOTal o[ the enemy I as
affected
0 n c p L t;,.<; of Ius 1 De
II I t
the \11 e d o bJ e<:t ve
Mr Ph iiI

G bbs reveals tha.t our menace s t o su ash
hroug

t he s'"' tch hn es of t.he H ndenb rg

1 nc

vhicb 'q e have already broken round
<Lbo t '\lrds ~o that an hIS s>ystem of de
Cc cc )S p e cod Lnd 1 5 r etTeat made
ena nOil ly un :safe
We n Cloy vell be p oad
n.l ke of the g e ne ral ih p CLnd th e fi g bt ng
il t j of ou r grand a.r my and look fo
rd lope[ Jly to ehe f Ln r e
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1st BERKS VOLUNTEER REGIMENT

NEXT WEEK STIllE luLx,

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