A list compiled by Danny Howell of news items/articles in the Warminster Journal newspaper, issue dated Friday 16th August 1940
Brief description of each item followed by page number and which column on that page (i.e. 1/3 refers to page 1, column 3)
Wedding of Leslie Harold Sparey and Phyllis May Davies 1/3
Death of John W. Beauchamp (ex-employee Carson & Toone) 1/3
Geoffrey Hinton dies from wounds in Channel attack 1/4
Grow your own food 2/1
Schooling of evacuees 2/3
Wedding of Evelyn Maud Moreman and William John Payne 3/2
Threshing 3/2
Silage 3/2
Wiltshire War Agricultural Executive Committee 3/2
Wedding of Winifred Dorothy Clargo and Thomas Lambe 3/2
Warminster Spitfire effort 4/2
Longbridge Deverill and Crockerton WI 4/2
Fire at Church Farm House, Tytherington 4/3
Bishopstrow and Boreham WI 4/3
Death of Harriet Down of Sutton Veny 4/3
Donald McDonald, theft of cloth 4/4
Red Cross support 4/4
Farmers effort for the Red Cross 5/2
Common Close Congregational Sunday School, Warminster 5/3
R.V. Grimston MP visit 5/3
H.S. Thorpe knocked down by despatch rider in East Street, Warminster 5/3
Sutton Veny House gardens open 5/3
Lady Lacey 5/3
Wedding of Edwin George Goddard and Ruby Hutter 5/3
Warminster Womens British Legion 5/3
Funeral of Mrs Cecil White 6/2
Will of the Rev. Henry Montague Crossing of Frome 6/2
Youth Sunday, boy scouts and girl guides attend church 6/3
Death of Henrietta Thorne of Horningsham 6/3
Horningsham WI 6/3
Home Guard 6/3
June Hiskett of Longbridge Deverill, scholarship 6/4
Britford sheep fair prices 6/4
Chilmark flock 6/4
Steeple Langford flock 6/4
Departure of Rev. Eldridge from St. John’s Church, Warminster 7/2
Wiltshire Information Committee 7/2
Machine guns 7/3
Bath 2nd v. Warminster, cricket 7/4
Sutton Veny WI 8/4
Freddie Bartholomew in new film The Rafters Ring 8/3
Mrs Lines of Sutton Veny, interview 8/1
Surnames 8/1
Pubs 8/2
Doctors 8/2
Sir James Phillips 8/2
Police Station, Ash Walk, Warminster 8/2
Breweries 8/2
Newtown 8/2