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Umweltblätter - Infoblatt des Friedens- und Umweltkreises Zionskirchgemeinde (55)

 
 
 
 

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Umweltblätter - Infoblatt des Friedens- und Umweltkreises Zionskirchgemeinde

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Transcription: item 50                                                     diskussion                                                  45 _____________________________________________________________________________  linke Spaltek  den Konsum- und Geldfetischismus, den Raubbau an den Vorräten der Erde und die Verseuchung der Umwelt als Tatsache feststellen und diese schleunigst überwinden müssen. Wir betrachten diese Erscheinungen jedoch als Bedingtheit der heutigen Wirtschaftssysteme, des westlichen als auch des östlichen. Alternative kann nicht ein Zurück zur einfachen Warenproduktion sein. Sie muß die Vergesellschaftung nicht nur der Produktionsmittel sondern auch aller Entschei- dungen in Wirtschaft und Verwaltung sowie alle Fakten und Kenntnisse der technischen und sozialen Wissenschaften sein. Um den massiven Ressourcen- und Energieverschleiß zu beenden und einen kulturellen Niedergang auszuschlie- ßen, muß die menschliche Produktion in natur- ähnlichen Kreisläufen organisiert werden, verschliessene Produkte, Ab- und Nebenprodukte gilt es wieder- bzw. weiterzuverarbeiten, ihre Entstehung zu minimieren, keine Substanzen in die Natur abzugeben, die durch natürliche Assimilation  nicht abgebaut werden. Es dürfen keine Eingriffe in die Natur vorgenommen werden, deren Folgen nicht kalkulierbar sind. Um das zu bewerkstelligen, sind aber umfassende Kenntnisse der Naturgesetze und moderne Technologien erforderlich, nicht nur zur Kontrolle dieser Prozesse, sondern auch um Rohstoff-, Energie- und Arbeitszeiteinsatz zu verringern. Durch Arbeitsproduktivitätssteige- rungen muß notwendige Arbeitszeit für alle eingespart werden, um die freie Entwicklung aller zu ermöglichen, u.a. um viel Zeit für  kreative, völlig selbstbestimmte Tätigkeiten zu gewinnen. Das ist allerdings eine "menschliche Kategorie", aber diese ist unbedingt auch eine ökonomische. Ökonomisch in der Frage der Ressourcen und der Arbeitszeit, ökonomisch vor allem in der Frage des Wirtschaftssystems, in der Frage wer verfügt über das Wirtschaftspo- tential, über die Produktionsinstrumente! Um die kapitalistische Verfügungsgewalt über das produktive Potential einerseits und die  rechte Spalte   staatsbürokratische Verfügungsgewalt anderer- seits aufzuheben, werden gesellschaftliche Veränderungen mit revolutionärem Charakter un- umgänglich sein. Die Frage ist hier, wie gesellschaftliches Eigentum zu realisieren und zu verwalten ist. Die rätesozialistische Form ist nach unserer Meinung die einzige geeignete Form die Selbstbestimmung der Produzenten, die Selbstverwaltung nicht nur auf betrieblicher, sondern auf gesamtgesellschaftlicher Ebene herzustellen. Wie das Rätesystem beschaffen sein muß, welches diese Aufgabe erfüllt, welches keine bürokratische Gefahren dar- stellt, darüber sollten wir jetzt reden! Wir sehen "Sozialismus" nicht nur als eine ethische Bewegung, sondern halten ihn für eine ökonomische Notwendigkeit. Ethik und Moral sind nicht statisch, vom Ursprung an unverän- derlich. Sie sind abhängig von der sozialökon- omischen Entwicklung und von der sozialen Lage in der Gesellschaft: "In einer Hütte denkt man anders als in einem Palast"´.  r. l.  und  a. k.   sagen, daß sozialistisches Bewußtsein nicht an eine bestimmte Klasse gebunden ist. Mag ein, daß Proudhon, Stirner und Kropotkin der gleichen Auffassung waren - man kann auch glauben, daß nicht der Galeerensklave seine Ketten verlieren will, sondern der Galeerenbe- treiber den Sklaven mit allen Mitteln zu überzeugen sucht, sich seine Ketten abnehmen  zu lassen. Natürlich sind die heutigen nicht so weithin und für jedermann sichtbar. Bakunin und Mühsam (hier irren die Autoren) waren in dieser Beziehung schon näher an unserer Auffassung, indem sie deklarierten: Die Befreiung der Arbeiter kann nur die Sache der Arbeiter selbst sein; Jeder Emanzipationskampf ist auch ein ökonomischer Kampf! Im Kommentar ist noch mehr Diskussionsstoff.Wir hoffen, daß wir Fragen aufgeworfen haben, die möglichst viele LeserInnen veranlassen, kritisch in die Debatte einzusteigen.     d. k.  und  u. b.   D e m o k r a t i s c h e  B i l d u n g s r e f o r m  i n  d e r  D D R Im Anschluß an die Protestaktionen gegen die Relegierungsverfahren an dr Pankower Ossietzky- Oberschule haben unabhängige Gruppen einen DDR-weiten Aufruf verabschiedet, in dem inhaltliche Schwerpunkte für die Umgestaltung unseres Erziehungs- und Bildungswesens formuliert sind. Dieser Aufruf wurde in unserer letzten Ausgabe abgedruckt.     Inzwischen sind die Diskussionen weitergegangen. Uns erreichten zwei Beiträge, die für eine öffentliche Auseinandersetzung zu diesem Thema in Vorbereitung des Pädagogischen Kongresses, der in diesem Jahr stattfinden soll, plädieren. Weil wir in dieser Sache, wie prinzipiell, der Meinung   sind, daß wir kein Recht haben, zu warten, was uns "von oben" beschehrt[sic] wird, drucken wir diese  Beiträge hier ab und würden uns über Meinungsäußerungen dazu freuen.      Angefragt sind alle Leute mit persönlichen Erfahrungen im Bildungswesen, insbesondere aber Schüler, Studenten, Lehrer, Erzieher und Dozenten.

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Diary 4: January - December 1937 (74)

 
 
 
 

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Transcription: 20/5/.  Family back from their first excursion in my new Buick - the fields of wild narcissi.   Dev. talks in Dail of possibility of I.F.S. leaving League if it does not become "universal" in Europe at any rate.  People here rather  disappointed: they expected better from Dev.   But where the blazes will Ireland be if she left the League.  We withdraw from the B.C. of Nations surely the necessary corollary is that we hold with might & main to our only place in the world? We wd become more than ever "an island beyond an island" - we wd become domestic politics for London & as seen from abroad.   I do not take it too seriously because I do not believe our people are so stupid.  I doubt very much the interest of Joe Walshe in League.   And Devalera has been hurried by the Fine Gael opposition in every decent action he took in connection with international affairs - irresponsible of men who wd have done the same as Dev. if in his place.  Sometimes against Italy:

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Kriegstagebuch vom Kriegsfreiwilligen Paul Kopp (137)

 
 
 
 

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Transcription: item 36    linke Seite   Vielleicht 100 m rückwärts standen unserer Ge- schütze von der Bedienungsmannschaft verlassen, nur ein Vize war da der händeringend alle Zurückge- henden beschwor bei den Kanonen zu bleiben, doch vergebens. Alles rannte & suchte hinter Deckung  zu gelangen. Na, -  die Kanönchen taten mir leid u. weil eben niemand anderer wollte blieb ich da u. bewog auch ein paar meiner Kameraden mitauszuhalten. Und so lagen wir denn da, ohne Deckung zwar, aber desto lebhafter von den Granatgrüßen umschwirrt, bis uns der Batl. Adj. zm Sammeln winkte. Hätte ich mich nun da gleich gemeldet, oder mir durch jenen Vize den Vorfall bestätigen lassen, so hätte ich heute das eiserne Kreuz, so aber muß ich von der Zukunft erhoffen.      Hinter einem Gehöfte nun sammelte in Gegenwart des Brigadegenerals das Batl. und als es Nacht geworden hoben wir etwas vor wieder Deckungsgräben aus, bekamen zu Essen & Wasser u. konnten nun - versuchsweise wer´s fertig brachte - schlafen.  rechte Seite                          7. November 14. Mittwoch. Kaum war Mitternacht vorüber u. uns die Knochen erst halbwegs steif geworden, da mußten wir auch schon wieder u. man sagte uns, wir kämen an einen anderen Flügel. Unterwegs erfuhren wir daß nachts einer von unseren Wachtposten einen Schuß in den Arm bekom- men, wahrscheinlich von Franktireurs.     Gegen Morgen kamen wir an Ort & Stelle u. konnten uns wieder eingraben, obwohl jeder schon ganz schlapp war. Beim Morgengrauen waren wir so halbwegs fertig & plötzlich hieß es: Arbeit einstellen. Wir hatten die richtige Front nicht. Bald war auch diese festgestellt & nun konnten wir von neuem schuften u. schanzen. Dafür erlebten wir wenig- stens die eine Genugtuung daß wir in dem end- lich bleiben durften. Die größte Freude aber brachte uns Mittag die Feldküche, nämlich die Post. Es kann sich gar niemand vorstellen was das für jeden von uns ein erhebendes Gefühl war, wenn man abgespannt, abgesetzt, schlapp u. fast willenlos durch all die Strapazen einen Gruß, einen ersten

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Aloisia Walter Korrespondenz mit Josef Strömer (134)

 
 
 
 

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Transcription: 22. VIII. 16.        Liebes Frl. Luise! Tausend Dank für Ihre letzte nette Karte, aber diese Stimmung darf man nicht auf- kommen lassen sonst " stiert's  einem's" wie unsere Jäger sagen. Heimweh ist dem Kriege ein Fremdwort vielmehr soll es eines sein! Unser jetziger Standort ist ja schöner als der frühere, aber doch kein Wiener- wald.                                    Herzl. Grüße allen              Ihnen     Ihr Jos. Strömer

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Theodor Panofka. Journal (1820-1822). Allemand 354 (13)

 
 
 
 

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Theodor Panofka. Journal (1820-1822). Allemand 354

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Transcription: 1.     d. 1t. April 1820 Wie oft hört man nicht heutigen Tages laute Klagen über den raschen Verfall der Musik u forscht man dann Gründe derselben nach, so finden die meisten ihn darin, daß die schlechte italienische Opernmusik auf deutschem Boden zu fest Wurzeln fassen, die Sinne der Hörer einnehmend u berauschen u so allen Raum, der etwa noch den edleren Deutschen zustände, vorwegnehmend. So gegründet auch diese Klagen immerhin seyn mögen, so drängt sich nur hiebey die Bemerkung auf, warum es doch uns Menschen so äusserst schwer fällt die Mittelsraße zu halten u. wie die Meisten gewohnlich von einem Extrem in das andre hinüberzuschweifen geneigt sind. Denn nicht nur gegen Italiens Opernmusik spricht mancher sonst tiefe Kummer dieser Kunst das Verdummungsurteil aus, sondern selbst in Mozarts Opern findet er Nebelflekke, weil nur Eine Sonne, Glück, das Ideal  aufrechter   Erhabenheit u. tiefer Cha- rakteristik ihm hohe Bewunderung, ja demüthige Anbetung abzwingt. So wenig eine Darstellung der aufziehenden Eigenthümlichkeiten dieser beyden  letzten  Meister von einem  Layen  in der Musik versucht werden dürfte, eben so  anmaßend wäre auch jedes Urtheil über die Wahrheit und den Irrthum der eben angeführten Ansichten. Indeß Eins wird vielleicht erlaubt seyn, nemlich einen neuen Gesichtspunkt aufzustellen, von welchem aus weder dem Ritter Gluck irgend ein Blatt seines unsterblichen Kranzes geraubt, noch Mozarts vollendete Karriere einen Augenblick verkannt wird u doch zugleich Phoebus den Italiener Rossini nicht in ruhmloser Finsterniß verschmachten läßt.

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Poesiealbum von Emilie Gerlitz (23)

 
 
 
 

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Transcription: Düsseldorf, den 18.9.1915 Tu' Du redlich nur das Deine, Tu's in Schweigen und Vertrau'n, rüste Balken, haue Steine, Gott, der Herr, wird weiterbau'n. Zur freundlichen Erinnerung an Deine Mitschülerin Dora Palitzsch.

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Lt. Col. Samuel Drury | Maurice William Drury RE & Pte. Edward Cyril Drury (25)

 
 
 
 

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Lt. Col. Samuel Drury | Maurice William Drury RE & Pte. Edward Cyril Drury

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Transcription: TO MY COMRADES   OF THE 47TH DIVISION. 30th March 1916.   It is now 10 days since the great German offensive commenced, and we are once again taking over an important Sector of the Battle front.   During the past 10 days you have been called upon to carry out one of the most difficult and trying operations which can fall to the lot of any troops,  viz a withdrewal in the face of an overwhelming enemy. On the Riot instant you successfully withstood the strong enemy attacks on the WELSH RIDGE with the greatest gallentry - on this day the 18th and 21st Battalions especially distinguished themselves.   In accordance with instructions from Higher authority you were ordered to withdrew that night to the HIGHLAND RIDGE this operation was successfuly carried out and the line hold all day, and could I am confident have been held for many days. Owing to the Army on our right withdrawing on the afternoon of the 22nd, you in conjunction with the 63rd Division on our left, were ordered to again withdraw to the line of the 2nd  Svsm. This further withdrawal at night was again carried out in accordance with orders in a manner most creditaple to all concerned - and this line I am confident could also have been held by you. We were however again ordered to withdrew on the morning of the 23rd instant to another line from HETZ SWITCH to DESSARE RIDGE. Later in the day a further withdrawal was ordered to a lane running from EQUANCOURT to the East side of YTRES. R. E. and Pioneers, 140th, 141st and 142nd brigadaes all successively were heavily attacked on the right  rlank by the enemy during the withdrawal. The enemy had driven       a wedge in between our right and the left of the Fifth Army who again had eithdrawan before the hour named for our withdrawal. You however of the 142nd Brigade held on and covered the Right of 63rd Division at YPRES with great gallantry and when the enemy had penetrated between YPRES and LECHELLE and had seized BUS you withdrew fighting and again formed up on the Left of your Comrades.   On the night of the 23rd/24th you again established a line from MESNIL to ROCQUIGNY which line you held next day with the greatest gallantry against four enemy attacks. Here the 141st Brigade especially distinguished themselves and here again had the troops continued to hold the enemy at bay.   Owing to the enemy having broken through to the South of out line and were again pressing on towards our right rear, you were ordered to withdraw later in the afternoon of the 24th.   Beofre these orders had reached you the troops on both flanks had withdrawan and you had to fight your way back by long and circuitous route to the position assigned you in and to the West of HIGH WOOD.   The withdrawal of the transport was during this operation successfully covered by the R.Es and Pioneers under Major  LANON and all enemy attempts to out in on the line of withdr awal of the same were gallantly frustrated. The enemy had however penetrated between then and the Brigades rendering the withdrawal of the latter a hazardous operation.   In spite of this by the morning of the 25th instant you established and held all day a line 4,000 yards long on the CONTALMAISON RIDGE joining hands with Divisions to the right and left of you.

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My WW1 collection (9)

 
 
 
 

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Transcription: Advertisements (cont) 2.Under the picture of a sinking ship Bread costs ships, eat potatoes. 3.Dye your 1939 dress for 1940 4, Save your bones, even Spot's, for the bone-bin in your street. 5.Come to help with the Victory Harvest. (Afull page spread.)   -Memories of local children attending school on mornings only while the evacuees went in the afternoons.   Memory of our worst night when bombers flew low over-head, on their way to bomb Harwell.(Then an Aerodome.)   Villagers willalways remember the all-pervading drone of more than 100 bombers, as they assembled overhead before heading for a daylight raid on Germany. How eagerly we listened to our radios that evening - no raid was mentioned!   An indelible memory of sitting quietly shelling peas when a B.B.C. announcer told us "This is D-Day. Our men have already landed on French soil. Soon after came V.E.Day. (Victory in Europe Day.) On the day we held a Fete in Slade End Green came the news of a bomb dropped on Hiroshima - an atom Bomb. This quickly brought V.J. Day (Victory over the Japs.) Then at long, slow intervals our men came back - all bbut eight of them.   We remember-     Edward Charles Allen     William Currill     Roy Graves     Alexander Harkness     Richard Wycliffe Spooner Inge     Normal Taylor     Reginald Thomas Whichello     George Woodgate         1939--1945

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From basket maker to munition carrier (36)

 
 
 
 

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Transcription: Carry basket for 3 cartridges 77 mm    Two photographs.   Rattan stake runs horizontally through the outer slats. 43

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Arthur Brewerton Mitchell (8)

 
 
 
 

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Transcription: GOUY-EN-ARTOIS COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION CEMETERY INDEX NUMBER Fr. 104.  GOUY-EN-ARTOIS is a village and commune in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, on the North side of the main road Arras to Doullens and facing Bailleuval across the road. The Communal Cemetery is on the Southern outskirts of the village, and the Extension is on the South side of the Communal Cemetery, divided from it by a thorn hedge. The Extension was made in April, 1917, at the time of the British advance from Arras. Two further burials took place in June and July, 1917, and five in March, 1918. The graves number 48, of which 44 are those of British soldiers and 4 those of German prisoners.  The Extension is a long strip covering an area of 526 square yards. It is entered from the road by steps leading up beside the War Cross. It is planted with pleached lime trees, corresponding with those in the Communal Cemetery.  The Register records particulars of 44 British burials.  THE REGISTER OF THE GRAVES. AYRE, Pte. Herbert, 26928. 2nd Bn. Wiltshire Regt. 10th Apl., 1917. Age 34. Husband of Eleanor Ayre, of 75, Kings Terrace, Garden St., Grimsby. Native of Grimsby. A. 15.  BARLOW, Pte. Wilfred, 34002. 6th Bn. Leicestershire Regt. 14th Apl., 1917. Age 24.  Son of John and Elizabeth Barlow, of 11, Burch St., Woolfold, Bury; husband of Annie Barlow, of 12, Nuttall Square, Blackford Bridge, Bury. A. 29. BOOT, Cpl. Frank Morton, 36474. 9th Bn. Leicestershire Regt. Died of wounds 11th Apl., 1917. Age 31. Husband of Elizabeth Boot, of 12, Brown's Flat, Kimberley, Notts. Native of  Awsworth, Notts. A. 16. BRANNAN , Pte. Albert George, 21511. "D" Coy. 1st Bn. Lincolnshire Regt. Died 12th Apl., 1917, of wounds received the previous day. Age 28. Son of Alfred George and Hannah Brannan of 3, Rowston St., Cleethorpes, Lincs. A. 22. BRAY, Pte. Thomas Alfred, 302686. 2nd Bn. Royal Scots. Killed in action 28th March, 1918. Age 19. Son of William Bray, of Gonalston Lane, Lowdham, Nottingham. A. 47.  BRYAN, Pte. Edgar, 27590. "A" Coy, 10th Bn. Yorkshire Regt. 12th April, 1917. Age 26.  Son of Thomas and Elinor Bryan of 10, Hartley St., Wakefield Rd., Bradford, Yorks. A. 23. INDEX No. Fr. 104 GOUY-EN-ARTOIS COM. CEM. EX. FRANCE

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HWG White: a child's impression of the world during War (2)

 
 
 
 

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Transcription: ..."July 1914 - father was due for referral, this is the year that I first remember England. But our voyage home was abord a German liner - War was not yet declared, but there was plenty of pent-up tension blowing about the decks between the British and the Germans, and to this day I can still hear the German ship's band playing the double eagle. ['Unter dem Doppelladler] as we steamed into Oporto. Mother had already retired to her cabin; she had only to see a ship to get sea-sick, and whilst father spent much of his time - wherever men spend much of their time on liners - Anyway, he dissapeared frequently. Meanwhile, Jane Jenner dressed my sister and me in our sea-going uniforms; navy-blue sweaters and long pants, blue reefer coats and sailor hats, and we walked the decks, or lay in deckchairs. My sister was a fat, shy child, and she stayyed with Jane, whilst I had my father's everlasting bonhomie, and made friends indiscriminately, much to my eventual cost; one day I eluded Jane, and became friendly with a German professor and his wife who were childless, and evidently admired my long, golden curls and sailor hat. They flattered me, and I shared my biscuits with them, until one day, the professor picked me up and held me over the side of the ship; no doubt in harmless fun, but I was terrified. From that moment I became violently anti-German on my own account."...[both laugh] ... And this is sort of her memory of England. They were very well-heeled, my parents and grandparents on both sides. My grandmother' side of the family came from Salisbury, and her father was a cutler, as had been his people before, and they're stuff is all in Salisbury museum. He supplied cutlery to Queen Victoria. WIth regards to the War, I have got some letters written by the family to my mother. This letter [by my grandfather] was written in 1915; but there's no mention of the War - that's really weird Yes... but his job was sort of taking him all around the world at the time that the war was happening....

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George Palmer - gas attack at Passchendaele (11)

 
 
 
 

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Transcription: W.4 L.V.C      YPRES

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Diary of Edgar Clarence Worsfold (63)

 
 
 
 

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Transcription: TEN YEARS AFTER 1918 -1928 NO1. The Menin Road the first pair of a magnificent series of plates celebrating the Tenth Anniversary of the Armistice to be presented with Answers Other plates in this Series :— NEXT WEEK - ALBERT. 1918 -1928 NOV. 3RD - YPRES, 1918 - 1928. NOV. 10TH. - ARRAS. 1918 -1928.

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Oscar Coleman (3)

 
 
 
 

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Transcription: Home at last thy labouts done, Safe and blest, the victory won ; Jordan passed, from pain set free, Angels now have welcomed thee. He suffered patiently and long, His hope was bright, his faith was strong, The peace of Jesus filled his breast, And in His arms he sank to rest. IN LOVING MEMORY —OF— PRIVATE OSCAR WILLIAM COLEMAN. Son of GEORGE and EMMA COLEMAN, Who died of wounds at Whitchurch, Cardiff, October 24th, 1916. AGED 22 YEARS. Interred in West Tofts Churchyard,Oct. 28th.

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Stanley Reddall (11)

 
 
 
 

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Transcription: No.................. H.S. ANTILL & Son, Wholesale & Retail Gilders and Picture Frame Makers. —o—      —o—      —o— 453, Harrow Road, London, W.

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A young soldier from Oxfordshire (35)

 
 
 
 

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Transcription: STANTON HARCOURT PARISH MAGAZINE   WHAT has been a nightmare for years has now become a reality. How few of us attached any importance to the writings and words of men we termed scaremongers. now we find that we were foolishly scaremongers. Now we find that we were foolishly lighthearted. They are right and we have been wrong. The European War has come and we are unprepared, or only half prepared. The Navy is strong, but the Army is small and unable to give adequate assistance to our allies. An expeditionary force of 100,000 or even 200,000 men is not worthy of a first class power; so the first seven weeks of battle have gone by and still our enemies are the agressors, both in France and in Russia, though in the latter country it should not be so for long, in view of Austria's defeat.   This position of affairs must nerve us an our allies to even greater efforts. We can rely on the moral support of the civilized world, and without hypocrisy believe that God upholds our arms.   Stanton Harcourt has done and is doing its share. The following are serving in H.M/ Navy: Mssrs. E. Stockwell, A. Belcher, Bert Dorrell, Percy Bradbury; and the following in H.M. Army: Messrs. Bernard Bury, Ed. Batts, Jas. batts, harry Boulter, George Bradbury, Roland Bullock, Henry Burden, Tom Burden, Harry Dorrell, John Fox, Percy Franklin, Chris Haines, Fred Haines, George Haines, Fred Hicks, Tom Hunt, Tom Phillips, Harry Sirman, Harry Talbot, Percy Trinder, Percy Walker, Harry Webb, Henry Wickson, James Wickson, Tom Wickson, Bernard batts. Thirty from a population of 500 is proabably as goog a proportion as that furnished by any other cillage for the prsent, but it must not be forgotten that such figures as these would not bear comparison with the corresponding figures for France or Germany, where the people have imposed upon themselves concription. We heartily congratulate Messrs. Percy Franklin, Percy Walker and Tom burden on joining the new Army, and Messrs. Bernard batts, Tom Hunt and harry Sirman on joining the Territorials, and any others who have volunteered but have not passed the medical examination. We have not mentioned the National Reserve, or the Special Constables, but we are well assured that if occasion arises they will do their work as bravely and efficiently as the younger men.   Our prayers have been offered to Almighty God for our fighting men day by day. The week of continuous Intercession in Church was perseveringly carried out by about tenty-six Intercessots, and the Friday Evening Services have been well attended. These must be kept up and our prayers must be made more efficient if we are to be heard. In putting our needs before our Heavenly Father we can have great confidence for we know that He has not condemned war. Cchrist is the great revealer of God's Truth and He said on one occasion to his disciples, an occasion of great stress:- "Noww he "that hath a purse let him take it, likewise his "scrip ; and he that hath no sword let him sell "his garment and but one."   Sympathy is extended to the Vicar in the loss of his cousin, Lt. Commander Walter Watkins Grubb of H.M.S. Cressy. In a letter from Mrs. Grubb he is informed that he was firing his guns till the last moment when his ship turned over, he was then seen for the last time in the sea holding to a spar, and must have perished from exhaustion if not from wounds. His brother Reginald's ship, H.M.S. Leonidas, was on the spot later searching frantically for him, but in vain. THE BORNEO MISSION.   Two new members have joined and have sent subscriptions:- Miss Webb, Sutton, I/-, Miss Lily Prentice, 6d.   Collection at Mother's Union Service. B.S.T.   ON Wednesday, 14th October, there will be a Lecture in the Schoolroom, by the Rev. E. P. Baverstock, of Oxford, entitled: "Names of places and the tale which they tell." It is hoped that all who can, will try and come. Admission free. Collection afterwards.   THERE will be a special Mothers' Union Service on october 30th, at 2.30, in the Church, when all members and their friends will be welcome. The name of the preacher will be announced later.   THE HARVEST FESTIVAL SERVICES on Sunday, October 4th, will be as follows:-   8 a.m. Holy Communion.   11 a.m. Matins and Holy Communion.     3 p.m. Children's Service.     6 p.m. Evensong.  The collections will be for the Hospitals. HOLY BAPTISM.   As many of you as were baptized into Christ did put on Christ.   September 13th, 1914. Betty Batts Talbot, daughter of Henry and Lena Talbot. HOLY MARRIAGE   Those whom GOd hath joined together let no man put asunder.   September 26th, 1914. Frederick George Putman, of Nutfield, Surrey, to Minnie Akers.

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