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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 - mainpage Local Defence in Rushden 1915
Northants Recruits 1915
German POWs at Rushden House - 1916
High Street South - 1916
Scouts - Service in WWI
St John Ambulance Brigade WWI
Enlistments WWI
Red Cross in WWI
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
CWS Shoe Factory - Enlisted men
Rev W H Tomkins - 1918
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

Awards & Tributes (in year order)
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
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
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
Prisoners of War in WWII

Memories
WWI Tank in Spencer Park & Memories
Reg Leach - Preparations for War 1939
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
W'boro Volunteers at Rushden 1881
5th Platoon B Company 7th Northants Regiment
Events
Home Guard 50th Anniversary of V E Day - Parade 1995
Remembrance Services
Armistice Day 1931

Steelbacks' History in WWII published
Territorial Army - Introduction Wartime Fundraising & Comforts
Money Lent to Parliament in 1643
Wartime Savings WWI
Belgian Relief Fund
R.A.M.C. National Relief Fund 1915
Royal Welsh Fusiliers Nursing Association Funds
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
Parcels Fund 1942-1945
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
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

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