Reading Standard Etc 03-1915
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| Title | Reading Standard, Saturday, March 6th, 1915. Page 7 |
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| Page number | 7 |
| Date | Reading Standard, Saturday, March 6th, 1915. Page 7 |
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| Publisher | Reading Standard |
OCR Text
BERKSHIRE BOYS of the BULLDOG BREED.
Another of the County's New Battalions.
The Regiment that Does Things.
"If anything has to be done its always the Berkshire who do it, and they are well known by other Regiments"--- Corpl. H. Miles, 1st Batt. Royal Berkshire Regiment, in a letter to friends at Reading.
"The Gurkhas said that they would storm any position with the Berkshires in support. Not a man of the 1st Batt. has yet left his trench under shell fire. Few regiments can make this boast." - General Officer Commanding 6th Infantry Brigade.
THE OFFICERS 8TH BATT. ROYAL BERKSHIRE REGIMENT.
How to End the War.
More men, and still more men, are necessary in order to end this life-and-death struggle.
This is what Lce.-Cpl. H. G. Davis, of the 2nd Batt. Royal Berkshire Regiment, says in a letter home :--- "If only all the young men would come forward and join the Army, the war would not be long in ending. There must be hundreds who---much to their shame---have not yet offered their services."
The late Lce.-Corp. T. LAILEY, 1st Batt. Royal Berkshire Regiment, Shinfield. - Killed in action. Aged 17.
The late Pte. T. WILLOUGHBY, 1st Batt. Royal Berkshire Regiment, 681 Oxford Road, Reading. - Killed in action. Aged 19.
If you are fit and free - go the Recruiting Office.
Pte. HARRY THATCHER, 1st Batt. Royal Berkshire Regiment, Didcot. - Wounded.
The late Lce.-Corpl. CHAS. AUSTIN, 2nd Batt. Royal Berkshire Regiment, Cornwallis Street, Maidenhead. - Died of wounds. Aged 26.
The late Lce.-Corpl. F. PONTIN, 1st Batt. Royal Berkshire Regiment, Windsor. Killed in action.
The late Pte. THOMAS WELLS, 3rd Batt. Royal Berkshire Regiment, 56, Elm Park Road, Reading. - Killed in action. Aged 31.
Pte. F. HAVELL, 2nd Batt. Royal Berkshire Regiment, Horse Close Lodge, Peppard Rd., Emmer Green. - Ill with enteric fever.
The late Pte. RALPH TODD, 2nd Batt. Royal Berkshire Regt., Easthampstead Road, Bracknell. - Killed in action.
"A" CO. 8th BATT. ROYAL BERKSHIRE REGIMENT.
"B" CO. 8th BATT. ROYAL BERKSHIRE REGIMENT.
"C" CO. 8th BATT. ROYAL BERKSHIRE REGIMENT.
"D" CO. 8th BATT. ROYAL BERKSHIRE REGIMENT.