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Rushden - Wars & Wartime


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War Memorials & Commemorations Rushden in Wartime (by year)
Introduction
Boer War
 Boer War - Ambulance Men
Josiah Bailey - Crimean War
WWI
 Effects of the War - The First Month -1914
Boer War - mainpage Belgian Guests 1914
Memorials Relief of the Belgians - 1914
Street Memorials - WWI Shrines Brothers in Arms - Short Brothers
War Memorial - dedicated Northants Recruits 1915
German POWs at Rushden House - 1916
High Street South - 1916
St John Ambulance Brigade WWI
Enlistments WWI
Red Cross in WWI
Glimpses of War - 1917
Outings - 1917

Shop Outing 1917
Rolls of Honour Canadian Contingent
Rechabites Roll of Honour 1916 Glassbrook Road - News Notes 1914-1918
Scouts Roll of Honour 1914-1918 Appeals Tribunals 1917
Wesleyan Roll of Honour 1914-1918 Aeroplane Forced Landing 1917
Windmill Club Roll of Honour 1914-1918 Home Hints 1917
Intermediate School - Roll of Honour WWII Cultivating Waste Land - 1917
Co-op Memorial Unveiled Crabb Street in 1918
Eaton and Co 1945 Peace Declared 1918
WWI
 Memorial Service 1917 St Mary's Church Wartime Greetings From Rushden
Memorial Service 1917 Baptist Church Wartime Memories - Doris Watts
Rev W H Tomkins - 1918 Wartime Snippets WWI
Memorial Chapel - St Mary's Church Pioneer Albert F Bell
WWII
 Civilians killed in World War II
WWII
 Events of 1939
Methodist deaths in World War II Enlistments - WWII (by date, regt, name, town, employer)
The Royal British Legion Council - Coping in Wartime - March 1940
Cenotaph Service Rationing WWII
Remembrance Services 2008 Wartime in Rushden WWII (by date)
Obituaries Evacuees News
Information to Relatives - 1940s
CWS Shoe Factory - Enlisted men
War Memorial & Church Photos Rushden Motor Ambulance Group

Boot & Clothing Fund 1940
Awards & Tributes (in year order) Gift for the Northamptonshires
Index of Awards & Tributes Court Estate First Aid Post
Wartime Tributes by RWN Entertainment WWII - by Arthur Griggs
F Wykes - TA Certificate 1914-19 Ploughing 1940
Miss Elsie Priestley 1918 Paddling at Ditchford 1940
Mission Incredible - 1944 Bomb on School
Miss Irene Davy BEM - 1945
Bomb Falls in Roberts Street
Soldiers Notes, Letters and Newsclips Army Boxing Contest 1941
Soldiers Notes - mainpage Local Wartime Service WWII
Walter Denton - Survivor
Denny Brothers
Armistice in Cairo - Mr F R Cobb & Steelbacks
Royal Oak - 1939
Promotions in WWII
Baker Brothers 1918
Soldiers Recounting Experiences
Zulu War - J Willmott 1879
Letter from Ernest King 1899
Soldier's Diary of the Boer War - 1901
Siege of Kimberley
Conditions at the Front WWI
Arthur Vorley - Telegraphist - 1915
Pte. C Magee 1915
Sgt. T J Long 1915/16
Prisoners of War in WWI
United Charities
Prisoners of War in WWII Parish Roll - October 1943
Red Cross Support 1944
John Morris - Note from Jersey 1944
Memories Cards from the Forces 1944
WWI Tank in Spencer Park Shoe craft in wartime 1944
Reg Leach - Preparations for War 1939 V. E. Tea - Upper Queen Street
David Clark 1940's & An Autograph Book Victory Tea 1945
Daisy Clarke (nee Browning) - Evacuee V E Day
Sgt B Fensome - 1944 Italian ex-POWs
Fensom Brothers - 1944 Civil Defence Corps
Chris Glidle - 1944
Seamen & U Boat 1944
Sunderland Aircrash 1946 Events
William Abington's memories of 1940 50th Anniversary of V E Day - Parade 1995
Jack Tear's War
WWII Memories in 2005
Korea Notes Remembrance Services
Armistice Day 1931
Military Groups
W'boro Volunteers at Rushden 1881 Wartime Fundraising & Comforts
5th Platoon B Company 7th Northamptonshire Regiment Money Lent to Parliament in 1643
Home Guard Wartime Savings WWI

Belgian Relief Fund
National Relief Fund 1915
Nursing Association Funds
Volunteer Training Corps Parcels Fund WWI
Prisoner of War Funds WWI
Volunteers 'O' Company Red Cross Funds WWI
Territorial Army - Introduction Street Shrines - funds for troops
F Wykes - T A 1914-1919 Wounded Soldiers & Sailors Fund
R.A.M.C. Comforts for Soldiers WWI
Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Knitting for Troops 1940-45
Spitfire Fund 1940
Militia Lists
Inhabitants & Arms 1590 Parcels Fund 1942-1945
Montagu Musters - early 1600's Prisoner of War Funds WWII
Able Bodied Men 1638 War Weapons Week 1941
Owners of Arms 1660 War Weapons Week 1942
Militia Lists Introduction HMS Quorn 1940-44

HMS Queen Elizabeth
Aid to Russia 1942
War Memorial 1944
Book Collections 1944

Militia Notes 1803

 Wartime National Savings WWII
Militia Snippet 1880 WWII Snippets

Queries Poems
20th TRB Shoemakers Verse by E E Sears 1918
Clayton Boys 1916
Verses by RWN - WWII
Church Lads Brigade?? - can you help? Poems by Michael Knight

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