Aldershot area WW1 @WW1Aldershot
Tweeting WW1 in the Aldershot area 100 years after the events Joined July 2014-
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Sept 1915 35 year old Annie Potts is jailed for 3 months hard labour after her 70th gross indecency conviction. 19 yr old soldier fined 21s
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2.9.15 Bbd Nightingale deployed to France. On 1st he & pregnant Mary Fuller arrested sleeping rough Highfield Ave. Mary ordered out of town.
2.9.15 overnight Aldershot is on lockdown after 3 men escape from Frith Hill PoW camp. 2 quickly recaptured but Ernest Junght is still free.
August 1915 a local paper typo described the Amy Pay Corps as `incompotent or physically unfit for combat units.` They meant ineligible.
21.8.15 RIP Pvt Harry Eyles, age 26, 26 Lime St and Pvt Arthur Henbest, parents at Stanhope Lines. Both 2nd Hants Regt, killed in Gallipoli.
18.8.15 RIP Sapper Ernest May, of 9 St George`s Road, and Staff Sgt Major George Cripps, of 93 St George`s Road. This road lost heavily.
18.8.15 The Royal Family were in Aldershot when an explosion blew man hole covers in the air on High Street. It was a gas explosion.
17.8.15 RIP Private Patrick O`Donnell, 4th Bn. Royal Sussex Regiment. 24. Killed in Gallipoli, his parents lived at 53, York Road.
August 1915 Farnborough Council vote by one vote to switch the town lights back on, but only after painting the top of the lantern black.
Aug 1915 Farnborough Council embroiled in a row after evicting a Soldiers Club from the Town Hall as they wanted to rent it out.
Aug 1915 Sentries at Cove railway bridge are told they will be court martialled if they don`t shoot civilians ignoring instructions to halt.
14.8.15 RIP Pvt. Henry Facey. 1st/4th Hampshire Regiment. 20. Buried at Basra War Cemetery, his parents lived at 85 Holly Road.
August 1915 German born soldier Carl Ester is arrested at Gibraltar barracks after returning from France. Bound over for £20 and interned.
10.8.15 RIP L/Cpl Charles Shanks. 10th Hants. Fell Gallipoli. Pre war he taught at West End school & attended the Wesleyan church in town.
8.8.15 RIP Sgt Arthur Archer. 5th Dorsetshire. 20. Also fell at Gallipoli. His parents lived at 1, Church Hill.
6.8.15 RIP Pvt George Dunn, 2nd Hants. 18. The third local to fall in Gallipoli that day. His parents lived at 34, Crimea Road.
6.8.15 RIP Pvt Wm. Berry. 2nd Hants. 39. Killed at Gallipoli, his parents lived at 131, Victoria Road tho his widow was in Reading.
6.8.15 RIP Private Wm. Thornton, 2nd Hants. 24. Killed Gallipoi, his parents lived at 13, Alexandra Street, North Town, Ex East End school.
Apologies, was away. 3.8.15 Driver Matthias of Badshot Lea drowned swimming off Calais. He had just returned to France. Had married 27.7.15.
24.7.15 RIP Pvt. Walter Goodrich. 1st/4th Hampshire Regt. 20. Killed in action, buried at Basra. His parents lived at 3, Cavendish Road.
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