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Rushden - Wars & Wartime


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War Memorials & Commemorations Rushden in Wartime (by year)
Introduction Effects of the War - The First Month -1914
Street Memorials - WWI Shrines Belgian Guests 1914
Relief of the Belgians - 1914
Brothers in Arms - Short Brothers
Northants Recruits 1915
Wartime News Snippets WWI
German POWs at Rushden House - 1916
High Street South - 1916
St John Ambulance Brigade 1916
Prisoner of War Fund 1917
Glimpses of War - 1917
Outings - 1917

Shop Outing 1917
Canadian Contingent
War Memorial - dedicated Glassbrook Road - News Notes 1914-1918
Appeals Tribunals 1917
Aeroplane Forced Landing 1917
Home Hints 1917
Cultivating Waste Land - 1917
Crabb Street in 1918
Peace Declared 1918
Wartime Greetings From Rushden
Other Wartime Commemorations - Military Wartime Memories - Doris Watts
Josiah Bailey - Crimean War Pioneer Albert F Bell
Boer War deaths 1900 Events of 1939
Scouts Roll of Honour 1914-1918 Enlistments - By Date WWII
Wesleyan Roll of Honour 1914-1918 Preparations for War
Rechabites Roll of Honour 1916 Evacuees News
Memorial Service 1917 St Mary's Church
Memorial Service 1917 Baptist Church
Rev W H Tomkins - 1918 Rushden Motor Ambulance Group
Newspaper Notes - WWI Soldiers 1914-18 Red Cross in WWI
Wellingborough News Articles 1914-1915 Boot & Clothing Fund 1940
Walter Denton - Survivor Council - Coping in Wartime - March 1940
Newspaper Notes - WWII Soldiers 1939-1945 Rationing WWII
Memorial Chapel - St Mary's Church Gift for the Northamptonshires
Civilians killed in World War II

Wartime in Rushden WWII
Methodist deaths in World War II Court Estate First Aid Post
The Royal British Legion Entertainment WWII - by Arthur Griggs
Cenotaph Service Ploughing 1940
Remembrance Services 2008 Paddling at Ditchford 1940
Obituaries Bomb on School
Information to Relatives - 1940s Bomb Falls in Roberts Street
CWS Shoe Factory - Enlisted men Local Wartime Service WWII
Co-op Memorial Unveiled
War Memorial & Church Photos
Awards & Tributes (in date order)
Horace Twelvetree - Aeromechanic1915
J E Buckle, DCM 1915
Ernest Hodson and his brothers 1915
Horace Sheffield 1916
Parker Family 1917
George O Leeding MM - 1918
Elsie Priestley - 1918 Parish Roll - October 1943
Frank Toby DCM & MM - 1918 Red Cross Support 1944
Bernard Vann V.C. - 1918 John Morris - Note from Jersey 1944
F Wykes - TA Certificate 1914-19 Cards from the Forces 1944
7 Jones Brothers 1940 Shoe craft in wartime 1944
E D Pratt DFM - 1944 Victory Tea 1945
4 Brothers - 1944 V E Tea - Upper Queen Street
Bernard Clark - 1944
Mission Incredible - 1944 Wartime Fundraising & Comforts
Jack Downing MM 1944 Money Lent to Parliament in 1643
R K Green - MBE 1944 Belgian Relief Fund
Sgt. Gordon Abrams 1944
Don Curtis -1944 National Relief Fund 1915
P/O Aland G Valentine 1944 Prisoner of War Funds WWI
Miss Irene Davy BEM - 1945 Red Cross Funds WWI
Bandsman Arthur Oliver - 1946 Knitting for Troops 1940
Private Keith Nutter - 1952 Spitfire Fund 1940
Wartime Tributes by RWN
Poems Parcels Fund 1942-1945
Verse by E E Sears 1918 War Weapons Week 1941
Verses by RWN - WWII HMS Quorn 1940-44
Poems by Michael Knight War Memorial 1944

Soldiers Recounting Experiences Memories
Zulu War - J Willmott 1879 WWI Tank in Spencer Park
Conditions at the Front WWI - 1914
Reg Leach - Preparations for War 1939
Conditions at the Front WWI - 1915 David Clark 1940's & An Autograph Book
Pte. A Forknall - 1915 Daisy Clarke (nee Browning) - Evacuee
Arthur Vorley - Telegraphist - 1915 Sgt B Fensome - 1944
Sgt. T. J. Long 1916 Fensom Brothers - 1944
Prisoner of War - George Trussler 1918 Seamen & U Boat 1944
Sunderland Aircrash 1946
Jack Tear's War

Military Groups Militia Lists
W'boro Volunteers at Rushden 1881 Able Bodied Men 1590
5th Platoon B Company 7th Northamptonshire Regiment Montagu Musters - early 1600's
Volunteer Training Corps Able Bodied Men 1638
Owners of Arms 1660
Territorial Army & Photo 1926 Militia Lists Introduction
F Wykes - T A 1914-1919
Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Queries
20th TRB Shoemakers
Clayton Boys 1916

Militia Notes 1803
Events
Militia Snippet 1880
50th Anniversary of V E Day - Parade 1995 Militia Snippet 1880

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