A list compiled by Danny Howell of news items/articles in the Warminster Journal newspaper, issue dated Friday 6th December 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)
Golden Wedding Anniversary of Mr and Mrs Walter Bailey 1/1
Warminster ARP exercises 1/2
Funeral of Joseph Furnell of Chitterne 1/3
Minster Church Youth Movement 1/4
J. Brownell appointed controller of Air Raid duties 2/1
Sale of eggs in Warminster 2/3
Heytesbury whist drive 2/3
Juvenile theft of money 2/4
Salvation Army at Chapel Street, Warminster 3/1
Unauthorised lights on pedal cycles 3/2
Ernest Mead of Portway Dairy, Warminster, school attendance charge 3/3
Ernest Cyril Symons, car abandonment charge 3/2
Ethel Cooper of Sutton Veny, showing a light charge 3/2
Horningsham whist drive 3/3
Major E. Jones killed in Bristol 3/4
Funeral of Edward John Risson Bastin 4/2
Longbridge Deverill and Crockerton WI 4/2
Chocolates and cigarettes rationed 4/2
Wedding of Peggy Eileen Harris and Charles William Terry 4/3
Common Close School, Warminster, whist drive 4/4
Inquiry into alleged waste 4/4
London evacuation of schoolchildren 5/2
Fruit ban hits Cape growers 5/2
Trowbridge rectors appointment 5/2
Methodist table tennis team 5/3
Workman loses £10 5/3
Gifts to the Hospital 5/3
Mr Lockyer’s divorce 5/3
Spitfire Fund whist drive 5/3
Common Close Fellowship, Warminster 5/3
Entertainment for evacuees 5/3
Warminster Town FC, first win 5/3
Confirmation at Christ Church, Warminster 6/2
Death of Charles Crump 6/3
Codford whist drive 6/3
Codford Book Reading Circle 6/3
Spitfire Fund 6/4
Warminster Co-op Committee 7/2
St. Monica’s School, effort for work room 7/2
National Air Raid Distress Fund 7/2
Difficulties in completing council housing scheme 7/3
Air Raid Distress Fund 7/4
British Legion 8/1
Welfare and comfort of troops by householders 8/3