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A short life on earth, given for the cause of freedom and liberty
More news of Reading men.
The Rev. G.N. Naylor has been appointed chaplain to the R.A.F. in Reading.
We shall miss the R.A.F. officers, cadets and men at the Sunday morning parade service, but I that many of them will still come to our high celebration and to evensong.
The special appeals fund will be closed on the 10th of December.
Departed: Private Leonard Cadman, D.C.L.I.; Gunner Ivor Hicks, A.F.A.; Sergeant George Murley, Berks Yeomanry; Major Max Henman; Lieutenant Sydney Cecil Lansdown Guilding R.F.A.; Gunner George Poulton Smith, R.G.A.; Bombardier Gerald Frederick Jordan, Berks R.H.A.; Gunner A.J. Hayden; Private A.V. Palmer.
Sick and Wounded: Corporal Coggs; Private E. Targett.
Our sympathy and prayers have, I am sure been given to the relatives and friends of the above, all of whom have nobly done their duty, and given their lives to the Empire, and for the cause of freedom and liberty. Lieutenant S.C.F. Guilding was one of our servers. His was a short life on earth, but he has been called to higher service elsewhere, and we shall not forget the work he did for us here. R.I.P.
Reading St Giles parish magazines, December 1918 (D/P96/28A/35)
Posted in After the war, Behind the lines, Hopes and prayers: the religious response, Life on the Home Front, News from the Front: the grim reality of war, Patriotic fervour, Roll of honour: the war dead
Tagged Army chaplains, Berkshire Royal Horse Artillery, Berkshire Yeomanry, Cadman, Church parades, Coggs, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, Guilding, Hayden, Henman, Jordan, Murley, Naylor, Palmer, Poulton-Smith, Reading, Royal Air Force, Royal Field Artillery, Royal Garrison Artillery, Soldiers' families, Targett
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"Sun punishment" for prisoners of war
Meg Meade, visiting her sister and brother-in-law in Windsor, met a former prisoner of war with harrowing reports of German treatment.
March 23rd
Elgin Lodge
My darling Ralph
Have you heard that Asquith came home sober the other night, so his dog never recognised him & bit him!! And another evening after he'd had a good dinner he played bridge with some friends. He seemed alright except he would go on trying to cut the matchbox!
It is not yet settled whether Jim keeps the flotilla or goes to LCS, in any case he keeps Royalist. He writes as if the last alternative is the decisive one, but it's contrary to various [illegible] I've heard in London. However everyone agrees he is right to stick to Royalist…
I came down here on Thursday to stay with Maysie & John, & this is a nice little house with a hideous outside… John looks well, but his jaw is still oozing, I believe… This evening a Coldstream soldier is coming up here to see them, as he's been a prisoner in Germany since Sept. 1914, & has weird tales of the punishments the Germans dish out, but of course it must be a grand occasion for a yarn. No one here can contradict him when he says he has twice been put in prison 3 days on end in darkness & then one day in daylight to make him blind, & he says they use "sun punishment", making the prisoner remain in the sun without a hat & facing the sun all day…
There are many stories about "Moesa" getting out & getting home. All or more may be true, but one thing's certain, & that is 2 ships without lights may pass each other on a dark night without knowing the other's there, even though they be only a few 1000 yds apart, & the sea is quite a big place you know. Lack of coaling facilities will & has prevented them sending many Moeses out, & they are so very liable to meet a nasty sticky end.
And I was very impressed about your remarks of the Navy in the East. I'm afraid the Army won't come out well in comparison of wasting material with the Navy. It seems a too difficult job for both services. They are burning military saddles here when they don't know what to do with them, & there are too many tales of Staff officers' expensive motors to quote, but they'd put into shade your grouse about an Admiral using motor boats as despatch carriers. As for the Navy's job as Transporters in general, they don't seem to have done so very badly when you come to think of the millions of men they have been carrying up and down the world to every military expedition which the WO has thought good to attempt. If there's one thing quite certain it is that the Army can't move hand or foot without them, & are entirely dependant on the Navy in whatever part of the world they're fighting in.
Do tell me some more Naval items from the Desert, darling. Anyway you'll approve of the way that Arthur Balfour & Hedworth Meux smashed up that mad viper Winston. I never heard such tales as Jim Graham told me of Winston's organization of the Naval Brigades in the beginning of the war. However as some sailor said, "Thank God Winston was got busy with his Naval Division & Flying Brigade, & the Navy was saved owing to the fact he was too busy to interfere with it!"!…
Your ever very loving
Letter from Meg Meade to Ralph Glyn (D/EGL/C2/3)
Posted in Behind the lines, Internment and prisoners of war, Life on the Home Front, News from the Front: the grim reality of war
Tagged Asquith, Balfour, Berkshire Royal Horse Artillery, Cars, Coldstream Guards, Graham, Jim Meade, John Wynne-Finch, London, Maysie Wynne-Finch, Meg Meade, Meux, Navy, Prisoners of War, Ralph Glyn, Royal Naval Flying Corps, Royalist, War crimes, War Office, Waste, Windsor, Winston Churchill
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The Broad Street Brothers continue to serve
Here is the latest list of men associated with the Broad Street Brotherhood asociated with Broad Street Congregational Church in Reading:
MEN OF THE BROTHERHOOD ON ACTIVE SERVICE, NOVEMBER 17TH, 1915
Bailey, 1932 Pte E G, 4th Royal Berks Regiment, 83rd Provisional Battery, Burnham on Crouch, Essex
Barrett, 2045 Sadler Sergt W, 4th Hants (How) Battery, RFA, Indian EF, Aden
Bishop, 4003 Corp. T E, No 1 Supernumery Comp., 4th Batt. Royal Berks Regiment, Barton Court, New Milton, Hants
Brant, 68686 Pte G P, RAMC, V Co, Hut 181, Haig Hutments, Tweseldown Camp, Surrey
Bucksey, 2697 Trooper C, 1st Berks Yeomanry, 2nd South Midland Brigade, 2nd Mounted Division, BMEF
Burgess, 100747 Sapper J, D Co, RE, Inner Lines, Brompton Barracks, Chatham
Burrett, 4005 Pte W, 4th Royal Berks Regiment, Arnould House, High Street, Lowestoft
Chapman, Sapper E, RE, Wantage Hall, Reading
Cox, 888 Dr W J, 1st Berks RHA, 2nd South Midland Brigade, 2nd Mounted Division, BEMEF
Cranfield, Pte G, 2/4th Royal Berks, B Co, 162 Upper Bridge Road, Chelmsford
Edwards, 4078 Pte H, Section 1, MT, ASC, 73rd Co, Attached 3rd Cavalry Regiment, Supply Column, EF, France
Elvin, 1702 Pte A C, RAMC, T, 4th London General Hospital, Denmark Hill, London, SE
Gooch, 2273 Corp. E, B Squadron, Berks Yeomanry, King's Lynn, Norfolk
Gooch, 1656 Trooper Percy, 1st Berks Yeomanry (wounded)
Gooch, M2/034985, 21st Division Supply Column, 273rd Co, ASC, MT, BEF, France
Goodyear, 69005 Pioneer J, 35th Division Signal Co, RE, Bulford Camp, Wilts
Grigg, Pte C A, RAMC, 16 Radnor Street, Chelsea, London, SW
Hawting, 15775 Pte H T, 1st Batt, Royal Scots Fusiliers, B Co, 3rd Division, BEF, France
Hunt, 9215 Rifleman J, Prisoner of War, 1st Rifle Brigade, English Gefengenem, Solton Colony Konigsmoor, 14P, Hanover, Germany. Letter address only. For parcel address see another entry, No. 37.
Lambden, P134777 Pte F, 9th Co, ASC, MT, Osterly Park, Middlesex
Lay, 1910 Pte W, A Co, No 1 Platoon, 1/4th Royal Berks Regiment, BEF, France
Lee, M2/035034 Driver W R, 345 Co, ASC, MT, 25th Division Sub, Anm. Park, BEF, France
Littlewood, B, RR
Mills, 13026 Pte C, B Co, 5th Platoon, 8th Royal Berks Regiment, BEF, France
Mills, 1621 Sadler Corp. H, 3rd troop, B Squadron, Royal Berks Yeomanry, 2nd South Midland Mounted Brigade, 2nd Mounted Division, Albania Barracks, Cairo
Milner, 2678 Lance-Corp. H J, 1/6th East Surrey Regiment, E Co, Signallers, No 13 Bungalow, Kuldana, Murree, India
Parr, 71372 Sapper F C, Royal Engineers, 20 Lancaster Road, Hitchin
Pocock, 8607 Corp. E C, 4th Platoon, 33rd Division ACC, Hut 29B, F Lines, Bulford Camp
Pounds, Sergt M, Berks RHA, Reading
Richardson, 16895 Pte H J, RMLI, H Co, H3 Room, Chatham Barracks
Rolfe, Driver H E, 181, ASC, B Squad, Dorset Yeomanry, Cairo, Egypt
Smith, 10456 Pte C, 5th Royal Berks. Wounded.
Smith, L V, Friends Ambulance Unit, Army Post Office, S10, BEF, France
Ward, 1026 Pte F, C Co, 2/6th Cyclist Section, Royal Sussex Regiment, Potter Heigham, Norfolk
Waite, 13687 Gunner J H, 16 Eastney Road, Eastney, Portsmouth
Hunt, 9215 Rifleman Joseph, 1st Rifle Brigade, Konigsmoor Bie Tostedt, Kriegsgafangenew Lager, Kries Harberg, Deutschland. Prisoner of war. Parcel address only.
Shelley, 66407 Pte E, RGA
Gooch, Pte Stanley, Royal Engineers, Reading
George Shearwood, 323 London Rd, who gave his life for his country whilst serving with the New Zealand Contingent in the Dardanelles
Keene, George, who after many months of service at the Front, in France, was killed whilst doing his duty in the trenches with the 1st Batt. Herts Regiment
From PSA Brotherhood
May, Brother V M, 219 Southampton Street, who was killed in action in October, with the 8th Royal Berks Regiment
Broad Street magazine, December 1915 (D/N11/12/1/14)
Posted in Internment and prisoners of war, Joining up, Nursing the wounded, Roll of honour: the war dead
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The Church Lads' Brigade goes into khaki
Over 50 men who had previously been members of the Earley St Peter branch of the semi-military religious boys' club were now serving.
Church Lads' Brigade.
The time has come when we are obliged to adopt the Service (khaki) uniform. Many companies have been in uniform for the past 2 years. The Reading Battalion has hitherto tried to manage without incurring this extra expense, but is now compelled to fall into line. The Battalion is making a very strong appeal for the necessary funds to enable them to do this, and we hope our readers will liberally respond. The Church Lads' Brigade has been in existence for twenty-three years and our organization some three years ago received recognition by the War Office under Cadet Regulations. We appeal with the more confidence on account of the work the Church Lads' Brigade is doing at the present time. Over 200,000 past and present members are serving in H.M. Forces, 500 of whom are old members of this Battalion, and so satisfied is the War Office with the efficiency of our organization that they have conferred upon it the unique distinction of allowing a Special Battalion of the King's Royal Rifles to be formed of its members. Of our S. Peter's, Earley, Company no less than 56 of the past and present members are serving as will be seen from the subjoined list.
4th (Cadet) Battalion Oxford Regiment, S. Peter's, Earley Company, No. 2679.
Present Officers – O'Leary, Sergeant. C.J., 1st Batt. Dorset Regt. (wounded).
Past Officers – Strong, Sergt. L.P./ Canadian Forces.
Lads – Past and Present
Jones, H., 11th Batt. Suffolk Regt.; Goodger, F., Driver B.R.C. Ambulance, France; Spratley, E., H.M.S. Britannia; Spratley, A., Government Railway Work, France; Green, Lce.-Corpl. G., 4th Batt. Oxford and Bucks L.I.; Leaver, Sergt. A., A.S.C.; Howlett, P., Australian Contingent; Bolton, C., 4th Royal Berks. Regt.; Simson, V., H.M.S. Magnificent; Harwood, P., A.S.C.; Townsend, G., H.M.S. Syren; Admas, J., R.M.L.I. (H.M.S. Rapid); Adams, D., R.M.L.I.; Ballard, A., 1st Canadian Contingent (wounded); Bowden, J., 4th Royal Berks. Regt. (wounded); Martin, J., Dragoon Guards; Maskell, G., 6th Batt. Royal Berks. Regiment; Ansell, Lce.-Corpl. G., 12th Batt. Hampshire Regt.; Harding, G., R.M.A.; Harding, H., 5th Batt. Royal Berks. Regt.; Edwards, F., Royal Navy; Wright, G., 8th Batt. Royal Berks. Regt.; Snellgrove, F., 17th Batt. K.R.R.; Parker, Lce.-Corpl. J., 4th Batt. Royal Berks. Regt.; Borroughs, H., R.A.M.C.; Beeson, F., Berks R.H.A.; Iles, B., H.M.S. Canada; Gains, V., R.E.; Barton, C., 4th Batt. Royal Berks. Regt.; Jacobs, A., A.S.C.; Hitchcock, J., 7th Batt. Gloucester Regt.; Berry, F., 4th Batt. Royal Berks. Regt.; Illott, A., 4th Batt. Royal Berks. Regt.; Gatehouse, R., R.M.L.I. (H.M.S. Stonewall Jackson); Worsfold, A., 2nd Batt. K.R.R.; Allen J., 7th Batt.Royal Berks. Regt.; Neale, W., 3rd Batt. Royal Berks Regt.; Shorter, E., R.E.; Shorter, H., R.E.; Port, C., A.S.C.; Waller, L., H.M.S. Agincourt; Phillips, J., Berks R.H.A.; Watts, E., R.N. Flying Corps; Webb, Lce-Corpl. E., 8th Co. R.E.
Earley St Peter parish magazine, October 1915 (D/P191/28A/22)
Posted in Children and the war, Joining up, Life on the Home Front
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Because we pray, a bullet may miss
As the war continued, the members of Broad Street Congregational Church in Reading renewed their prayers for their friends who had joined up. Interestingly, one detects here a little scepticism in the veracity of the legend of the Angel of Mons.
PRAYER AND SAFETY
"In Jesus' keeping
We are safe and they"
The editor has again very kindly invited me to send him a few lines for our magazine, and whilst wondering what they should be, the above quotation from one of our well known hymns came to my mind.
The thought should be, I think, very helpful to us in these most trying days providing we do, as we might, really and truly believe it.
I take it that practically everyone connected with us is thinking of our soldiers and sailors throughout each day, and of the dangers they have been facing so long, and are facing still, and also of the lesser dangers we at home are liable to meet with from overhead, from possible invasions and in other unexpected ways.
And as we "look up" at the beginning of every new day and commend the keeping of these brave fellows – an ever-increasing number – and especially those whom we know so well, to Almighty God, and when again the darkness falls, we repeat with added earnestness the prayer to our ever watchful Father Who never slumbers nor sleeps, I do think we feel the grace and beauty of those eight words. Are we not frequently being told by men who should know that the power of prayer is indeed wonderful? And some of us would very humbly say we have not the shadow of a doubt about it. Some day we may know that because you and I prayed, a bullet missed its object by a brief inch or two and a precious life was spared.
I cannot but make just a reference to the vision of angels seen at Mons and which undoubtedly many of our men there sincerely believed aided them and discomfited their foes, but I do place entire reliance in a very much older record, "the angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear Him and delivereth them."
Posted in Behind the lines, Hopes and prayers: the religious response, Joining up, Roll of honour: the war dead
Tagged Angel of Mons, Anger, Army Ordnance Corps, Army Reservists, Army Service Corps, Bacon, Bailey, Baker, Barrett, Beer, Berkshire Royal Horse Artillery, Berkshire Yeomanry, Bishop, Brain, Broad Street Brotherhood, Brown, Bucksey, Burgess, Butt, Caversham, Chandler, Congregationalists, Cox, Cranfield, Dracup, Dyer, East Surrey Regiment, Edwards, Francis, Gooch, Goodyear, Hancock, Harper, Hawkins, Hawting, Hedgcock, Hertfordshire Regiment, Hilliard, Hunt, Invasion, Keene, King's Royal Rifles, Lay, Lee, Leicestershire Regiment, Lewis, Littlewood, Maggs, May, Mills, Milner, Mons, National Reserves, New Zealanders, Norfolk Regiment, Nott, Papps, Parr, Pounds, Reading, Richardson, Rolfe, Royal Army Medical Corps, Royal Berkshire Regiment, Royal Engineers, Royal Flying Corps, Royal Horse Artillery, Royal Marines, Royal Military College, Royal Scots Fusiliers, Royal Sussex Regiment, Sanders, Sandhurst, Shearwood, Smith, Staffordshire Regiment, Surbiton, Ward, White, Woolley
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Thousands of police reservists and Special Constables sign up
The Chief Constable and the Clerk of the Peace informed the Standing Joint Committee of the County Council and Quarter Sessions of the effects of the war on the police force and the Clerk's department.
CHIEF CONSTABLE'S REPORT
On the outbreak of the war the two boarded-out horses from the 11th Hussars were, at the request of the Military Authorities, returned to Aldershot….
The allowances to the wives of Police Constables recalled to Army service are, I now understand, to be altered from the 1st October, 1914, by an increased allowance from Army funds…
As regards the single Constables, I would ask that some consideration may be made them… I would, therefore recommend that the following three unmarried Constables (Army Reservists) who were recalled to the Army for service on 5th and 6th August, 1914, and who have been regularly contributing for their mothers' support should be granted the allowance of 7/- per week:-
PC 36, George A. Eales
PC 163, Philip Hubbard
PC 214, Harry Easton
and that the money be paid monthly to the mother in each case.
Since the date of your last meeting in August, I have called up one more Police Reservist to take the place of a Police Constable called upon to resign. The total of First Police Reservists now serving is therefore 44.
Formation of a Police Special Reserve.
I beg to report that on the outbreak of war the duties of the Police were increased out of all proportion to the strength of the Force. It was necessary to recall all those away on annual leave and to suspend the weekly rest day. Forty-four 1st Police Reservists have since then been called up for duty. The demands on the time of the Officers and Constables have been very great, consequent on the necessity for continuous watching of the main bridges over the Thames, the railway lines, the requisition of Police by the Military Authorities for mobilization, purchase of horses, vehicles, and billeting, and the posting and distribution of many Orders. The registration and watching of alien enemies under the Aliens Act, 1914, further added important duties for the Police to carry out.
In order that the Police might get some assistance at such a time I issued a Special Constables appeal, a copy of which is attached.
Consequent on this appeal I received the very greatest help and assistance throughout the County, and especially as regards the guarding and watching of the bridges (railway and main road), the railways, waterworks, lighting works and other vulnerable points; and as a result of this splendid and patriotic response to my appeal, I have now a Berks Police Special Reserve Force of nearly four thousand (4,000) under the following organization:-
Chief Organizing Officer	Colonel F. C. Ricardo, CVO
Assistant Chief Organising Officer	Colonel W. Thornton
Divisional Officer, Abingdon and Wallingford Police Division
Colonel A. M. Carthew-Yorstoun, CB
Divisional Officer, Faringdon Division	Francis M. Butler, esq.
Divisional Officer, Maidenhead Division	Heatley Noble, esq.
Divisional Officer, Newbury Division	(vacant)
Divisional Officer, Hungerford Sub-division	Colonel Willes
Divisional Officer, Reading Division	(vacant)
Divisional Officer, Wantage Division	E. Stevens, esq.
Divisional Officer, Windsor Division	Colonel F. Mackenzie, CB
Divisional Officer, Wokingham Division	Admiral Eustace, RN
To all these Officers I am very much indebted for their valuable help and voluntary service in this organization. The efficiency of our organization is entirely due to their energetic work.
This Force has for several weeks been drilling and doing patrol work in conjunction with the Police in many parts of the county. Classes of instruction in first aid to the injured are being formed, and miniature rifle ranges are being used by the kind permission of the owners, and new ones about to be given for such use.
We have been careful to exclude from the Reserve all those who are eligible for and whose circumstances permit of them joining the Army.
I have further received great help from the Berkshire Automobile Club, and owners of motor cars generally throughout the county, in placing motor cars at the disposal of the Police when required.
I would ask your authority to swear in a total number of Special Constables not exceeding 2,000, and to provide the necessary batons, whistles and chains, armlets and other necessary articles of equipment…. Under these conditions of appointment of Special Constables, the service is a voluntary and unpaid one.
A report by the Clerk of the Peace with regard to his staff was presented as follows:-
I have to report that in consequence of the War, the following members of my staff are absent on service:-
H. U. H. Thorne, Deputy Clerk of the Peace	Captain, 4th Battalion Royal Berks Regiment
E. S. Holcroft, Assistant Solicitor	Captain, 4th Battalion Royal Berks Regiment
R. G. Attride, Assistant Solictor (Mental Deficiency Act)
Lieutenant, 4th Battalion Royal Berks Regiment
H. P. Tate, Senior Clerk, Taxation Department	Private, Honorable Artillery Company
F. J. Ford, Clerk, Taxation Department	Gunner, Berks Royal Horse Artillery
J. A. Earley, Clerk	Private, 4th Battalion Royal Berks Regiment
J. A. Callow, Clerk	Private, 4th Battalion Royal Berks Regiment
Mr Tate is actually abroad on active service and the remainder have all volunteered for foreign service.
In consequence of the great depletion of my staff, I have, after consultation with the Staff Purposes Committee, arranged with Mr C. G. Chambers, of the firm of Blandy & Chambers, Solicitors, Reading, to assist me in the legal work during the absence of the Deputy Clerk and the Assistant Solicitors…
It has also been necessary for me to make temporary arrangements for the clerical work and I have engaged the following:-
Miss M. A. Burgess, Shorthand-Typist, at 12/6 per week from 7th September, 1914
Miss Norah Scrivener, Shorthand-Typist, at 10/- per week from 14th September, 1914
Stanley A. Bidmead, Office Boy, at 5/- per week from 1st September, 1914.
Standing Joint Committee minutes, 10 October 1914 (C/CL/C2/1/5)
Posted in Enemy nations and individuals, Internment and prisoners of war, Joining up, Life on the Home Front, New opportunities and other changes for Berkshire's women, Nursing the wounded, Service at home
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