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Launceston through the First World War 1918

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January

Western Times – Saturday 05 January 1918
Western Times – Tuesday 08 January 1918
Western Times – Tuesday 15 January 1918
Western Morning News – Wednesday 16 January 1918
Leicester Daily Post – Wednesday 16 January 1918
Western Times – Monday 21 January 1918
Western Times – Thursday 24 January 1918
Western Times – Tuesday 29 January 1918

February

Western Times – Saturday 02 February 1918
Western Morning News – Saturday 02 February 1918
John Henry Hutchings
John Henry Hutchings
Western Times – Monday 04 February 1918
Western Times – Wednesday 20 February 1918
Western Times – Tuesday 26 February 1918

March

Western Times - Saturday 02 March 1918
Western Times – Saturday 02 March 1918
Western Morning News – Wednesday 06 March 1918
Western Morning News – Thursday 07 March 1918
Western Times – Tuesday 19 March 1918
Derby Daily Telegraph – Thursday 21 March 1918

St Thomas, MARCH 1918: The Rev JJ Haworth intends proceeding again to France after Easter.
St Mary’s Mission Church, Tregadillett: Service: I shall in Easter Week (dv) be leaving the parish for possibly a years, service with the Troops, having been accepted for a Temporary Army Chaplaincy.. I shall leave you with the happy recollection of the splendid way in which you kept things going during my five months absence last year, and I want you once again to regard yourselves as partners in this service; yours, to serve at home and mine abroad with the near and splendid men who are saving us from our enemies.
Every effort will be made to provide regular services in the Church during my absence, and clergy of our Deanery will again help readily as they did last year. If on occasion a service cannot be held and your first feeling is that if disappointment, I hope you will remember this short prayer, which I heard a Chaplain pray at a service held one Sunday in a ruined village and near a ruined Church: “Remember O Lord those who have lost their homes, specially those who once lived here and worshipped Thee in the Church now in ruins.” I the next issue of the Magazine particulars of the arrangements made will be set out. Meanwhile may God guide and bless us in all things.
Most hearty congratulations to Cpl CH Westlake, who has been recommended for the Croix de Guerre, the Belgium decoration. We are awaiting particulars of this rare honour, coming as it does so soon after Cpl Westlake was “mentioned” in a recent Despatch from our own Commander-in-Chief.

Western Times - Tuesday 26 March 1918
Western Times – Tuesday 26 March 1918

April

Western Times – Tuesday 02 April 1918
Western Times - Thursday 04 April 1918
Western Times – Thursday 04 April 1918
Western Morning News – Monday 08 April 1918
Western Times – Tuesday 09 April 1918
Cornishman – Thursday 11 April 1918
Western Times – Friday 12 April 1918
Western Morning News - Saturday 13 April 1918
Western Morning News – Saturday 13 April 1918
Western Times – Tuesday 16 April 1918
Western Morning News – Thursday 18 April 1918
Western Times – Thursday 25 April 1918
Western Times – Friday 26 April 1918
Western Times – Tuesday 30 April 1918
Wounded Weekly Casualty List (War Office & Air Ministry ) – Tuesday 30 April 1918
Weekly Casualty List (War Office & Air Ministry ) – Tuesday 30 April 1918
Wounded Weekly Casualty List (War Office & Air Ministry ) – Tuesday 30 April 1918

May

Western Times - Wednesday 01 May 1918
Western Times – Wednesday 01 May 1918
George Tucker
George Tucker
Western Times – Monday 06 May 1918
Weekly Casualty List (War Office & Air Ministry ) – Tuesday 07 May 1918
Wounded Weekly Casualty List (War Office & Air Ministry ) – Tuesday 07 May 1918
Wounded Weekly Casualty List (War Office & Air Ministry ) – Tuesday 07 May 1918
Western Times – Wednesday 08 May 1918
Western Morning News – Friday 10 May 1918
Exeter and Plymouth Gazette – Friday 10 May 1918
Gustavis Webber
Gustavis Webber
Wounded Weekly Casualty List (War Office & Air Ministry ) – Tuesday 14 May 1918
Western Times – Tuesday 14 May 1918
Weekly Casualty List (War Office & Air Ministry ) - Tuesday 14 May 1918
Weekly Casualty List (War Office & Air Ministry ) – Tuesday 14 May 1918
Western Times - Saturday 18 May 1918
Western Times – Saturday 18 May 1918
Missing Weekly Casualty List (War Office & Air Ministry ) – Tuesday 21 May 1918
Wounded Weekly Casualty List (War Office & Air Ministry ) – Tuesday 21 May 1918
Wounded Weekly Casualty List (War Office & Air Ministry ) – Tuesday 21 May 1918
Wounded Weekly Casualty List (War Office & Air Ministry ) - Tuesday 21 May 1918
Wounded Weekly Casualty List (War Office & Air Ministry ) – Tuesday 21 May 1918
Hartland and West Country Chronicle - Tuesday 21 May 1918
Hartland and West Country Chronicle – Tuesday 21 May 1918
Western Times - Monday 27 May 1918
Western Times – Monday 27 May 1918
Cecil Westlake with comrade
Cecil Westlake with comrade from the D.C.L.I.

June

Western Times – Tuesday 04 June 1918
Western Morning News – Friday 07 June 1918
Western Morning News – Friday 07 June 1918
Western Times – Monday 10 June 1918
Western Times – Monday 10 June 1918
Wounded Weekly Casualty List (War Office & Air Ministry ) – Tuesday 11 June 1918
Missing Weekly Casualty List (War Office & Air Ministry ) – Tuesday 11 June 1918
Western Times – Tuesday 11 June 1918
Killed in Action Weekly Casualty List (War Office & Air Ministry ) – Tuesday 11 June 1918
Henry H. Hocking.
Henry H. Hocking.
Weekly Casualty List (War Office & Air Ministry ) – Tuesday 11 June 1918
Killed in Action Weekly Casualty List (War Office & Air Ministry ) – Tuesday 11 June 1918
Western Morning News – Wednesday 12 June 1918
Western Times – Friday 14 June 1918
Western Times – Friday 14 June 1918
Western Times - Friday 14 June 1918
Western Times – Friday 14 June 1918
Western Times – Saturday 15 June 1918
Western Times – Monday 17 June 1918 (Halls Gloucestershire Regiment 44536)
Weekly Casualty List (War Office & Air Ministry ) – Tuesday 18 June 1918
Missing Weekly Casualty List (War Office & Air Ministry ) – Tuesday 18 June 1918
Missing Weekly Casualty List (War Office & Air Ministry ) – Tuesday 18 June 1918
Western Times - Thursday 20 June 1918
Western Times – Thursday 20 June 1918
Western Times – Friday 21 June 1918
Western Times – Monday 24 June 1918
Western Morning News – Tuesday 25 June 1918
Weekly Casualty List (War Office & Air Ministry ) - Tuesday 25 June 1918
Weekly Casualty List (War Office & Air Ministry ) – Tuesday 25 June 1918
Wounded Weekly Casualty List (War Office & Air Ministry ) – Tuesday 25 June 1918
Western Times – Thursday 27 June 1918
Western Times – Saturday 29 June 1918

July

Weekly Casualty List (War Office & Air Ministry ) – Tuesday 02 July 1918
Wounded Weekly Casualty List (War Office & Air Ministry ) – Tuesday 02 July 1918
Western Times - Friday 05 July 1918
Western Times – Friday 05 July 1918
Western Times – Wednesday 10 July 1918
Western Times – Tuesday 16 July 1918
Western Morning News - Tuesday 16 July 1918
Western Morning News – Tuesday 16 July 1918
Exeter and Plymouth Gazette – Tuesday 16 July 1918
Western Times – Friday 19 July 1918
Western Times - Tuesday 23 July 1918
Western Times – Tuesday 23 July 1918
Weekly Casualty List (War Office & Air Ministry ) – Tuesday 23 July 1918
Western Morning News – Tuesday 23 July 1918
Western Times - Friday 26 July 1918
Western Times – Friday 26 July 1918
Western Times - Wednesday 31 July 1918
Western Times – Wednesday 31 July 1918

August

Western Times – Monday 05 August 1918
Western Times – Wednesday 07 August 1918
Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail – Thursday 08 August 1918
Western Times – Saturday 10 August 1918
Wounded Weekly Casualty List (War Office & Air Ministry ) – Tuesday 13 August 1918
Western Times – Thursday 15 August 1918
POW Weekly Casualty List (War Office & Air Ministry ) - Tuesday 20 August 1918
POW Weekly Casualty List (War Office & Air Ministry ) – Tuesday 20 August 1918
Western Times – Wednesday 21 August 1918
Western Times – Friday 30 August 1918
Western Times – Saturday 31 August 1918

September

Western Times – Monday 02 September 1918
Western Times – Tuesday 03 September 1918
Western Times - Thursday 05 September 1918
Western Times – Thursday 05 September 1918
Western Times – Thursday 12 September 1918
Wounded Weekly Casualty List (War Office & Air Ministry ) – Tuesday 17 September 1918
Wounded Weekly Casualty List (War Office & Air Ministry ) – Tuesday 17 September 1918
Western Times - Thursday 19 September 1918
Western Times – Thursday 19 September 1918
POW Weekly Casualty List (War Office & Air Ministry ) - Tuesday 17 September 1918
POW Weekly Casualty List (War Office & Air Ministry ) – Tuesday 17 September 1918
Western Times - Thursday 26 September 1918
Western Times – Thursday 26 September 1918

October

Wounded Weekly Casualty List (War Office & Air Ministry ) – Tuesday 01 October 1918
Wounded Weekly Casualty List (War Office & Air Ministry ) – Tuesday 01 October 1918
Wounded Weekly Casualty List (War Office & Air Ministry ) – Tuesday 01 October 1918
Frederick Oxenham Western Times - Friday 04 October 1918
Western Times – Friday 04 October 1918
Western Morning News – Thursday 03 October 1918
Western Times – Saturday 05 October 1918
Western Times – Saturday 05 October 1918
Western Times – Tuesday 08 October 1918
Weekly Casualty List (War Office & Air Ministry ) – Tuesday 08 October 1918
Wounded Weekly Casualty List (War Office & Air Ministry ) - Tuesday 08 October 1918
Wounded Weekly Casualty List (War Office & Air Ministry ) – Tuesday 08 October 1918
Killed in Action Weekly Casualty List (War Office & Air Ministry ) – Tuesday 08 October 1918
Western Times – Wednesday 09 October 1918
Western Morning News – Wednesday 09 October 1918
Western Times - Tuesday 15 October 1918
Western Times – Tuesday 15 October 1918
Gunner Kent Wounded Weekly Casualty List (War Office & Air Ministry ) – Tuesday 15 October 1918
Weekly Casualty List (War Office & Air Ministry ) – Tuesday 15 October 1918
Western Morning News - Wednesday 16 October 1918
Western Morning News – Wednesday 16 October 1918
Western Morning News – Tuesday 22 October 1918
Weekly Casualty List (War Office & Air Ministry ) – Tuesday 22 October 1918
Western Times - Thursday 24 October 1918
Western Times – Thursday 24 October 1918
Western Times - Friday 25 October 1918
Western Times – Friday 25 October 1918
Western Times - Saturday 26 October 1918
Western Times – Saturday 26 October 1918
Western Times – Tuesday 29 October 1918

November

Western Morning News – Friday 01 November 1918
The People - Sunday 03 November 1918
The People – Sunday 03 November 1918
Wounded Weekly Casualty List (War Office & Air Ministry ) – Tuesday 05 November 1918
Western Times – Thursday 07 November 1918
Western Morning News - Friday 15 November 1918
Western Morning News – Friday 15 November 1918
The Surrender of Germany Headline Western Times - Friday 15 November 1918
The Surrender of Germany Headline Western Times – Friday 15 November 1918
Western Times - Friday 15 November 1918
Western Times – Friday 15 November 1918
The obituary for W. Prout Western Times - Friday 15 November 1918
Western Times – Friday 15 November 1918
Western Times - Thursday 21 November 1918
Western Times – Thursday 21 November 1918
Western Times - Monday 25 November 1918
Western Times – Monday 25 November 1918
Weekly Casualty List (War Office & Air Ministry ) – Tuesday 26 November 1918

December

Western Morning News - Tuesday 03 December 1918
Western Morning News – Tuesday 03 December 1918
Weekly Casualty List (War Office & Air Ministry ) – Tuesday 03 December 1918
Weekly Casualty List (War Office & Air Ministry ) - Tuesday 10 December 1918
Weekly Casualty List (War Office & Air Ministry ) – Tuesday 10 December 1918
Weekly Casualty List (War Office & Air Ministry ) – Tuesday 10 December 1918
Weekly Casualty List (War Office & Air Ministry ) - Tuesday 10 December 1918
Weekly Casualty List (War Office & Air Ministry ) – Tuesday 10 December 1918
Western Times – Wednesday 18 December 1918
Exeter and Plymouth Gazette – Thursday 19 December 1918
Weekly Casualty List (War Office & Air Ministry ) – Tuesday 24 December 1918
Weekly Casualty List (War Office & Air Ministry ) - Tuesday 24 December 1918
Weekly Casualty List (War Office & Air Ministry ) – Tuesday 24 December 1918
Ripley and Heanor News and Ilkeston Division Free Press - Friday 27 December 1918
Ripley and Heanor News and Ilkeston Division Free Press – Friday 27 December 1918
Western Morning News - Saturday 28 December 1918
Western Morning News – Saturday 28 December 1918
Weekly Casualty List (War Office & Air Ministry ) – Tuesday 31 December 1918

1919 The aftermath

January

Western Times – Friday 10 January 1919
Western Times - Wednesday 15 January 1919
Western Times – Wednesday 15 January 1919
Western Times - Tuesday 28 January 1919
Western Times – Tuesday 28 January 1919

February

Western Times - Tuesday 04 February 1919
Western Times – Tuesday 04 February 1919
Western Morning News – Thursday 13 February 1919
Exeter and Plymouth Gazette - Wednesday 19 February 1919
Exeter and Plymouth Gazette – Wednesday 19 February 1919
Western Times – Tuesday 18 February 1919
Exeter and Plymouth Gazette – Friday 21 February 1919

March

Western Morning News – Saturday 01 March 1919
Western Times – Friday 07 March 1919
Red Cross Hospital, Werrington House which was demobilized on March 28th, 1919.
Red Cross Hospital, Werrington House which was demobilized on March 28th, 1919.

April

Western Times – Friday 04 April 1919
Western Morning News – Monday 07 April 1919
Cornishman – Wednesday 23 April 1919

May

Western Times – Friday 23 May 1919

Launceston through the First World War 1917

 

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