Soldiering in East Africa | the doings of some of our local men | upsetting the rum ration | N.7
An article from The Shipley Times and Express, Friday 6 April 1917 about The Frontiersmen serving in Africa, from accounts sent back home by Private W. Watmough of Thackley. These Shipley news articles are mentioned in the letters of Private Alvin Whiteley.
The article reports the deaths of Private Frank J. Connolly of Bradford and Captain Selous (aged 65) who had formed the famous Selous Scouts. The article includes: outpost work; the Rhodesians serving with the British soldiers; the heavy rains; their servants - the lack boys; being at Tanga, and at Dar-es-Salaam; guarding Askari prisoners; upsetting the rum ration; fish and big game; mentions soldiers Frank Hammond of Undercliffe, Billie Cannan, Archie Gardner, Walter Dyson of Bradford, Percy Moorhouse of Baildon, Joe Bracknell (a reporter on the Yorkshire Observer), Hal Owens, Dan Spicer, Jack Senior, Jimmy Drake, Briggs (lieutenant Joe Brooke's coachman).
The reverse includes advertisements for: Prince's Hall picture house, Shipley and the Picture Palace, Idle (films: Sporting Blood, Great Fox Drama, The Laughing Mask, Coming Thro' the Rye, Vampire Ambrose); Bramco gas mantles; and J. Humphreys dentist, 76 Bradford Street, Shipley.
An article from The Shipley Times and Express, Friday 6 April 1917
CREATOR
James Burnett Hewitt
DATE
1916-01 - 1917-04
LANGUAGE
eng
ITEMS
4
INSTITUTION
Europeana 1914-1918
PROGRESS
METADATA
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