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
- mainpage
Local Defence in Rushden 1915
War Memorial - dedicated
Northants Recruits 1915
WWI Names
German POWs at Rushden House - 1916
WWII Names
High Street South - 1916
Other Wartime Commemorations - Military
Scouts - Service in WWI
Also Commemorated in Rushden Cemetery
St John Ambulance Brigade WWI
Killed in Northern Ireland
Enlistments WWI
Killed in Iraq
Red Cross in WWI
Memorial Scheme
Glimpses of War - 1917
Rolls of Honour
Outings - 1917
Rechabites Roll of Honour 1916
Shop Outing 1917
Scouts Roll of Honour 1914-1918
Canadian Contingent
Wesleyan Roll of Honour 1914-1918
Glassbrook Road - News Notes 1914-1918
Windmill Club Roll of Honour 1914-1918
Rushden's 'Gukhas'
Railway Roll of Honour 1921
Appeals Tribunals 1917
Intermediate School - Roll of Honour WWII
Aeroplane Forced Landing 1917
Co-op Memorial Unveiled
Home Hints 1917
Eaton and Co 1945
Cultivating Waste Land - 1917
WWI
Memorial Service 1917 St Mary's Church
Peace Declared 1918
Memorial Service 1917 Baptist Church
Peace Thanksgiving service
CWS Shoe Factory - Enlisted men
Peace Celebrations 1919
Rev W H Tomkins - 1918
Crabb Street in 1919
Memorial Chapel - St Mary's Church
Food in Wartime - MO Report 1920
WWII
Civilians killed in World War II
Wartime Greetings From Rushden
Methodist deaths in World War II
Wartime Memories - Doris Watts
The Royal British Legion
Wartime Snippets WWI
Cenotaph Service
Pioneer Albert F Bell
Memorial Hospital
Pilgrimage 1928
Obituaries
Events of 1939
Information to Relatives - 1940s
WWII
Enlistments - WWII
(by date, regt, name, town, employer)
War Memorial & Church Photos
Rationing WWII
Remembrance Services 2008
Wartime in Rushden WWII
(by date)
Evacuees News
Evacuees 1939
Awards & Tributes
(in year order)
Evacuees Letters
Index of Awards & Tributes
Rushden Motor Ambulance Group
Wartime Tributes by RWN
Boot & Clothing Fund 1940
Major J A Browning - For King & Country
Gift for the Northamptonshires
F Wykes - TA Certificate 1914-19
Court Estate First Aid Post
Miss Elsie Priestley 1918
Entertainment WWII - by Arthur Griggs
Mission Incredible - 1944
Ploughing 1940
Miss Irene Davy BEM - 1945
Paddling at Ditchford 1940
Bomb on School
Soldiers Notes, Letters and Newsclips
70th Anniversary Plaque
Soldiers Notes
- mainpage
Bomb Falls in Roberts Street
Walter Denton - Survivor
Army Boxing Contest 1941
Denny Brothers
Local Wartime Service WWII
Armistice in Cairo - Mr F R Cobb & Steelbacks
Civil Defence 1939
including Awards
Royal Oak - 1939
A.F.S.
Promotions in WWII
A.R.P. 1938-42
Baker Brothers 1918
A.R.P. Test 1942
A.T.C. 1941
+
1942
Soldiers Recounting Experiences
A.T.C. Commandant Visits 1942
Zulu War - J Willmott 1879
A.T.S. 1941
Letter from Ernest King 1899
First Aid Post 1940
Soldier's Diary of the Boer War - 1901
Girls' Training Corps
Siege of Kimberley
Local Defence Volunteers
Prisoner Chettle
Home Guard
Conditions at the Front WWI
Home Guard Officers
Pte. Walter Bates - 1915
Home Guard Notes
Pte. A Forknall - 1915
L-Cpl. George Jolley - 1943
Pte. H Rowthorne
Fire Guard
Arthur Vorley - Telegraphist - 1915
National Fire Service - memories
Pte. C Magee 1915
Land Army
Sgt. T J Long 1915/16
Red Cross
Prisoners of War in WWI
Wartime Special Police
George Trussler 1918
Wartime Firemen
Prisoners of War in WWII
Rescue & Demolition Squad
Prisoners of War WWII - notes
Shoemen Called
V A D Nurse Trusler
Memories
Wilson Gas Meter Co.
WWI Tank in Spencer Park
&
Memories
W.V.S.
Reg Leach - Preparations for War 1939
Youth Service Corps
David Clark 1940's
&
An Autograph Book
United Charities
Daisy Clarke (nee Browning) - Evacuee
British Restaurant? 1942
Sgt B Fensome - 1944
Parish Roll - October 1943
Fensom Brothers - 1944
Red Cross Support 1944
Chris Glidle - 1944
John Morris - Note from Jersey 1944
Seamen & U Boat 1944
Cards from the Forces 1944
Sunderland Aircrash 1946
Shoe craft in wartime 1944
William Abington's memories of 1940
V. E. Tea - Upper Queen Street
Jack Tear's War
Victory Tea 1945
WWII Memories in 2005
V E Day
Korea Notes
Italian ex-POWs
Civil Defence Corps
Military Groups
Training 1963
W'boro Volunteers at Rushden 1881
5th Platoon B Company 7th Northants Regiment
Events
Home Guard
50th Anniversary of V E Day - Parade 1995
Gallery
&
Officers
Home Guard - notes
Remembrance Services
L-Cpl. George Jolley - 1943
Armistice Day 1931
Steelbacks' History in WWII published
Territorial Army - Introduction
Wartime Fundraising & Comforts
Volunteers 'O' Company
Money Lent to Parliament in 1643
Volunteer Training Corps
Wartime Savings WWI
Pte. F. D. Harris 1917
Belgian Relief Fund
F Wykes - T A 1914-1919
Belgian & Allies Relief Fund - Collections
R.A.M.C.
National Relief Fund 1915
Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Nursing Association Funds
O. J. Evans - murder charge
Parcels Fund WWI
Army Cadet Corps 1942
Prisoner of War Funds WWI
Red Cross Funds WWI
Militia Lists
Street Shrines - funds for troops
Inhabitants & Arms 1590
Wounded Soldiers & Sailors Fund
Montagu Musters - early 1600's
Writing home - YMCA Huts
Able Bodied Men 1638
Comforts for Soldiers WWI
Owners of Arms 1660
Knitting for Troops 1940-45
Militia Lists
Introduction
Spitfire Fund 1940 -
mainpage
Militia Notes 1803
Parcels Fund 1942-1945
Militia Snippet 1880
Prisoner of War Funds WWII
War Weapons Week 1941
&
1942
Poems
Salvage 1942
Verse by E E Sears 1918
HMS Quorn 1940-44
Verses by RWN - WWII
HMS Quorn - newsclips
Poems by Michael Knight
HMS Queen Elizabeth
Aid to Russia 1942
Queries
War Memorial 1944
20th TRB Shoemakers
Book Collections 1944
Clayton Boys 1916
Wartime National Savings WWII
Church Lads Brigade?? - can you help?
WWII Snippets