January 23rd 1915
Back in the trenches the Dublins have been shelled pretty heavy, there was a lot of sniping, very misty and the G’s succeeded in cutting some of our wire.
Diary of Private W Tapp, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, November 1914- January 1915
Imperial war Museum Archives
To Let: In the parish of Farnborough (possession at Lady Day next), HOUSE with good Garden and Orchard and fifteen acres of good Pasture Land, very suitable for Poultry and Small Dairy Farm, mile from Fenny Compton Station and village of Farnborough, on main road to Banbury and in the Warwick and Bicester Hunts. – For further particulars apply to H Strange, Banbury.
Banbury Guardian January 1915
January 22nd 1915
I have got issued with a pair of boots at last, feel fit again now, a few bombs from an aeroplane drop on the village where we are billeting they tried to get the railway but missed.
Diary of Private W Tapp, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, November 1914- January 1915
Imperial war Museum Archives
January 12th, at Fenny Compton, by the Rev. G. R Brown, Rector, TOM WHITE of Shotteswell to MARY ELIZABETH, daughter of the late THOMAS BLICK READING and of Mrs READING, Contone House, Fenny Compton.
Banbury Guardian January 1915
January 21st 1915
Came down to La Criche for our rest about 8 miles, feet very bad boots full of grit and mud I have borrowed a pair of boots off the woman at the billet, I think she took pity on me.
Diary of Private W Tapp, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, November 1914- January 1915
Imperial war Museum Archives
Resulting from the recent Christmas pantomime, Mr H G Carey is able to send a cheque for £17.17s.9d. to the Prince of Wales’ Fund.
Banbury Guardian January 1915
Zeppelin raid on the East Coast of Britain. German airships, apparently three in number, at about half-past eight in the evening dropped bombs on Yarmouth, and afterwards on Kings Lynn and near Sandringham. Considerable damage to buildings was done at Yarmouth, and two people were killed at that place and at Lynn.
Banbury Guardian January 1915
Will the sport be subsidised?
A lengthy and impassioned appeal to the effect that any future subsidy of fox hunting will ensure that a continued supply of suitable horses and horsemanship skills is maintained and available to the army in the event of future conflicts.
Banbury Guardian January 1915
“The injustice to agriculture involved in the present rating system was pointed out by Mr R Lean, J P of Kineton, at the annual meeting of the Henley-in-Arden Branch of the Farmers’ Union.”
His appeal regards proposals in discussion to raise money for the nation that may result in farmers having to pay taxes on one-half of their rental, rather than the current one-third.
Banbury Guardian January 1915
Mr E D Horsfall, President of the Oxford University Boat Club, on Monday announced that there will be no University Boat Race this year. This will be the first time the race has been abandoned since it became an annual event in 1856.
Banbury Guardian January 1915