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Aldershot area WW1

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Tweeting WW1 in the Aldershot area 100 years after the events

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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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August 1915 German born soldier Carl Ester is arrested at Gibraltar barracks after returning from France. Bound over for £20 and interned.

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14.8.15 RIP Pvt. Henry Facey. 1st/4th Hampshire Regiment. 20. Buried at Basra War Cemetery, his parents lived at 85 Holly Road.

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Aug 1915 Sentries at Cove railway bridge are told they will be court martialled if they don`t shoot civilians ignoring instructions to halt.

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Aug 1915 Farnborough Council embroiled in a row after evicting a Soldiers Club from the Town Hall as they wanted to rent it out.

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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.

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17.8.15 RIP Private Patrick O`Donnell, 4th Bn. Royal Sussex Regiment. 24. Killed in Gallipoli, his parents lived at 53, York Road.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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August 1915 a local paper typo described the Amy Pay Corps as `incompotent or physically unfit for combat units.` They meant ineligible.

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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.

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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.

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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