Category: Days During 1940

A list compiled by Danny Howell of news items/articles in the Warminster Journal newspaper, issue dated Friday 13th 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)

Communal rooms for evacuees 1/1

Mr. L.D. Slyde of Windywidge, Weymouth Street, Warminster 1/1

Sambourne School, Warminster, swimming certificates 1/2

Compulsory billeting 1/3

Appeal to farmers from Richard Stratton of Wilts War Executive Committee 1/4

Mrs Overy’s claim for furniture against Mr Overy 2/1

Death of Herbert Trimby of Horningsham 2/3

Miners warning to Government, South Wales coal hold up 2/4

Death of Miss Betty Noyce 3/2

Corton whist drive 3/3

Poem about a dairyman finding a German airman 3/4

Warminster Spitfire Fund 4/2

Warminster Womens British Legion 4/2

Fire at London Central Meat Company, Market Place, Warminster 4/3

Higher road haulage wages 4/3

Appeal to householders to comfort troops 4/4

Warminster WI 5/1

Longbridge Deverill and Crockerton WI 5/2

Levy on coal 5/2

Collections for St. Dunstan’s 5/3

Warminster Town FC defeat 5/3

Warminster Town Hall caretaker Mrs Brown in lucky escape 5/3

Minster Church Youth Movement 5/3

St. Denys College annual sale 5/3

Christmas postal arrangements 6/3

Major W. Jones killed by enemy action 6/4

Crockerton First Aid Point 6/4

Foxhunting book profits go to Red Cross Agricultural Fund 7/2

Building Essentials court claim 7/3

National Savings Committee 7/4

Local girl stealing money, case dismissed 8/1

Horningsham whist drives 8/2

Increase of 18 casuals for Warminster Guardians 8/4

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

A list compiled by Danny Howell of news items/articles in the Warminster Journal newspaper, issue dated Friday 29th November 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)

Annual meeting of Codford WI 1/1

Heytesbury Red Cross sub-depot 1/2

Fewer handbags and gloves 1/2

Spitfire Fund 1/3

Rural District Council, fire brigade needs more equipment 2/1

Salvage from village dumps 2/2

Mr Harraway complains over securement of lorry driver 2/2

Waste paper 2/2

Rate collector W. Francis, retirement 2/2

Minster Church Young Peoples Fellowship formed 2/3

Air raid notes 2/4

Warminster Spitfire Fund 3/2

No more bananas 3/2

Womens Voluntary Service 3/3

Divorce of Frederick Charles Lockyer and Beatrice May Lockyer 3/4

Horningsham Confirmation Service 3/4

Horningsham Conservative Womens meeting 3/4

Rationing of animal feeding stuffs 4/2

Funeral of Emily Sims 4/3

ARP practice 5/2

Rest room for armed forces at 4 High Street, Warminster

School hours changed owing to black out 5/3

Foot and mouth disease controlled area 5/3

Blue light bulbs in the Minster Church 5/3

Engagement of J.P. Crawford-Holt and Amy E.G. Hill 5/3

Councillor looking like a tailor’s dummy 5/3

Warminster Town FC to play an RACC side 5/3

Poppy Day 5/3

Warminster Market prices 5/3

Horningsham Womens Guild 5/3

Wedding of G.V. Long and Molly Scanlon 6/3

1,000 evacuees in the rural district 7/2

Circle of the White Knights in Salisbury 7/2

Poem about ration books for cattle 7/3

Gardening notes 7/4

Tisbury boy stole a machine gun 7/4

Public shelters 8/1

Deterrents against enemy landings 8/1

Respirators 8/1

Establishment of wardens 8/2

Rescue services 8/2

Air raid warning system 8/2

Ambulance 8/2

First Aid parties 8/2

Warminster WI 8/2

Former wife of Minster Church curate Nan Goodall book published 8/4

Army wants dogs 8/4

A list compiled by Danny Howell of news items/articles in the Warminster Journal newspaper, issue dated Friday 22nd November 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)

Maud Edith Collins leaves £25,644 1/1

Accident at Town Hall Hill, Warminster 1/2

Accident at Norridge 1/2

Elizabeth May Brown riding a bike with unauthorised light 1/2

Frederick William Prince, summoned for car parking 1/2

Charles Henry Sims of Heytesbury summoned 1/2

Warminster Spitfire Fund 1/3

RSPCA 1/3

Frank Lockheart of Upper Marsh Road, Warminster, killed by a bomb in London 1/4

Sutton Veny whist drive for Spitfire Fund 1/4

Variety Show for Spitfire Fund 2/1

Horningsham WI 2/2

WI weekly whist drive 2/2

Red Cross fund 2/2

Irish mail 2/3

Mr Slyde’s speech about the Spitfire Fund 3/2

Poppy Day 3/3

Thomas Arthur Beresford Copestake killed in air crash 4/2

Warminster Dairy Students Horticultural Competitions 4/2

Death of postman Charles Henry Hibberd 4/3

Bishopstrow and Boreham WI 4/4

Christian Science Churches 5/2

Methodist Church services for soldiers 5/3

Common Close Fellowship, Warminster 5/3

Home Guard course 5/3

36 men register for the forces 5/3

Protected plovers mutilated at Coldharbour, Warminster 5/3

Warminster, seven goals defeat 5/3

Cambrai Day 5/3

Longbridge Deverill and Crockerton WI 5/4

Sutton Veny WI 6/2

Cyclists riding without lights 6/3

Presentation to Sambourne School caretaker Mrs W. Turner 6/4

Heytesbury Poppy Day collection 6/4

Chitterne WI 7/2

Hugh Carlo Bellasys Roden, new priest in charge at St. John’s Church, Warminster 7/3

British and Foreign Bible Society 8/1

Citizens Advice Bureau 8/3

Lord Bath’s London furniture for sale 8/4

A list compiled by Danny Howell of news items/articles in the Warminster Journal newspaper, issue dated Friday 15th November 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)

Horningsham Church Parade 1/1

Horningsham WI whist drive 1/1

Horningsham Red Cross Funds 1/1

Cecil Trump killed in a motorcycle accident 1/2

Spitfire Fund 1/3

Mr and Mrs Robert Pinnell married 63 years 1/3

Daylight opening of cinemas 1/4

Warminster Area Guardians 2/1

Tributes to the late Neville Chamberlain 2/3

New sheriffs for Wiltshire 3/2

Armistice Day at the War Memorial 3/3

Longbridge Deverill and Crockerton WI 3/3

Shop early for Christmas 3/3

Sale at 32 Sambourne, Warminster 3/4

Warminster Market prices 3/4

Salisbury Sheep Fair 3/4

Re-use of broken glass 3/4

Good work by rural fire brigade 4/3

Funeral of William Reach 4/4

ARP transfer scheme 5/2

Sutton Veny whist drive 5/1

46 registrations at Labour Exchange 5/3

Poppy Day 5/3

Air raid shelters 5/3

No football 5/3

Huntsman in accident at Silver Street, Warminster 5/3

Postal changes 5/3

Death at Salisbury of Rosa Shepherd from Warminster 5/3

Poppy Day collections in the villages 6/2

Heytesbury WI 6/2

Bonfire Carnival festivities 6/3

Hard winter 6/3

Youth Service Corps 6/3

Poppy Day Dance 6/4

Leaders for Youth Service Movement 7/2

Home Guard parade at Christ Church, Warminster 7/3

Bishop of Salisbury at the Minster Church, Warminster 8/1

Avoid waste, torch batteries 8/4

Military activity at East Street, Warminster 8/3

A list compiled by Danny Howell of news items/articles in the Warminster Journal newspaper, issue dated Friday 8th November 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)

Funeral of Oliver Gay Hart 1/1

Warminster WI 1/2

Fatal accident, David Alfred Louis Appleton of Heytesbury 1/3

Billeting officer 2/1

Further housing scheme 2/1

Water and Lighting Committee 2/1

British Sailors Society 2/1

Heavy demand for Warminster Town Hall letting 2/2

Guns and rifles at Warminster Town Hall surrendered to Police 2/2

Reinstatement of gas main trench at Pound Street, Warminster 2/2

Allotments at Pound Street, Warminster 2/2

Tynings Allotments, Warminster 2/2

Coal shortage 2/2

Workmens wages 2/3

Health of the district 2/3

Refuse collection 2/4

Obsolete Belisha beacon standards 2/4

Guy Fawkes Day 3/2

Home Guard 3/2

Spitfire Fund 3/3

Codford Reading Circle 3/4

Theatre lectures at Stockton 3/4

James Theodore Stickland of Norton Bavant, black out charge 4/2

Lieutenant Kiddle at the Old Bell, Warminster 4/2

H.A.R. Tilney displaying light at Church Street, Warminster 4/2

Lady Julia Mount of Chitterne, black out charges 4/2

Frank Whitmarsh sold pork above regulated price 4/3

Horningsham WI 4/4

Horningsham Red Cross whist drive 4/4

Spitfire whist drive 5/3

Bishop of Salisbury to visit the Minster Church, Warminster 5/3

Common Close Fellowship, Warminster 5/3

Death of E. Reach of 38 Sambourne Road, Warminster 5/3

W. Cornelius applies for taxi licences for his daughters Marjorie and Betty 5/3

G.W. Curtis of Furlong, Warminster, injured in collision 5/3

Royal National Lifeboat Institution 5/3

Warminster Town FC to play an army eleven 5/3

Gifts to the Hospital 5/3

Warminster Market prices 5/3

Mr and Mrs Charles Hill of Corton celebrate 61 years of marriage 5/4

Wedding of T. Brian Mills and Eileen Patricia Goodwin 6/2

Dance at Warminster Town Hall 6/2

Bernard James Noyes of 93 Monkton Deverill, petrol charges dismissed 6/3

George Arthur Butt of Codford, cycle offence 6/4

Exorbitant charges for rent 7/2

Condemned houses for evacuees 7/3

Hostel at Princecroft, Warminster 7/3

Civilian deaths due to War 7/3

Mutual assistance by farmers in case of aerial attack 8/1

A list compiled by Danny Howell of news items/articles in the Warminster Journal newspaper, issue dated Friday 1st November 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)

Warminster October Sheep Fair 1/1

Spitfire Fund 1/1

Christmas post 1/1

Wedding of Bunty Melville and Charles Gordon Ray 1/2

Fire at the old Conservative Club in Silver Street, Warminster 1/3

Padre prisoners 1/3

Warminster October Fair prices 1/4

Air raid news 2/1

BBC reception in the west 2/1

Evacuation problems for Rural District Council 2/2

Rural District Council, Medical Officer’s report 2/3

Lorry purchase for refuse collection by Rural District Council 2/4

Stirrup pumps 2/4

Crockerton Brick Works 2/5

Wedding of Henry Wilkins and Anne Chichester 3/2

Spitfire Fund 3/3

West Wilts Spitfire Fund 4/4

Prices of onions and lemons 4/5

Death of Oliver George Hart 5/3

Freemasonry 5/3

ARP first aid 5/3

Warminster Town FC v. army side 5/3

Minster Church Mothers Union 5/3

Motorcycle skids at George Street, Warminster 5/3

Sutton Veny canteen fund competition 6/2

Warminster Town Hall dance for Spitfire Fund 6/3

Death of Rev. Gavin Charles Hamilton 6/3

St. Monica’s bazaar 6/4

Policewomen 6/4

Boy in theft while on holiday at Warminster 7/2

Horningsham whist drive 7/4

Horningsham Red Cross Fund 7/4

Warminster Farmers Mutual Assistance 8/1

Ragwort offences 8/2

Difficulties for farmers 8/2

Night bombing 8/3

Less milk for manufacturers 8/3

Evacuation problems 8/4

A list compiled by Danny Howell of news items/articles in the Warminster Journal newspaper, issue dated Friday 25th October 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)

Hospital League 1/3

Home Guard comforts 1/4

No deaths at Isolation Hospital, Warminster 2/1

Warminster Hospital 2/1

Preparations for October Sheep Fair 2/2

Earlier closing of shops 2/2

Lord Arundel of Wardour is prisoner of war 2/2

Evacuees in village halls 2/2

Trowbridge Foot Beagles 2/3

Wedding of Phyllis Hilda Scott and L.R. Compton 2/4

Mr Dean and helpers put out fires caused by enemy action in village 3/1

Amy Catherine Harding makes bequest to St. John’s Church, Warminster 3/2

Spitfire Fund 3/3

Lord Long, divorce 4/2

Spitfire Fund 4/3

Dried fruits will be limited 5/2

Egg prices 5/3

Ralph Richardson passes through Warminster 5/3

Queen Mary passes through Warminster 5/3

Rev. J.L. Herbert in cycle accident 5/3

Common Close Fellowship, Warminster 5/3

British Legion table tennis 5/3

Sir Charles Nepean has sold Westleigh Hous, Warminster, and is leaving 5/3

Warminster Town FC will play an army side 5/3

Wedding of Percy Hill 5/3

Death of Gladys Alberta Mills 5/3

Purchase tax now in force 6/2

Warminster Market prices 6/4

Harris Mineral Water Factory, Warminster, sale 6/4

Manor House, Upton Lovell, furniture sale 6/4

Rat traps 6/4

Will of John James Scudamore Collins 7/2

Wedding of E.J. Townsend and Winifred Poow 7/4

Post early for Christmas 7/4

Wedding at Kingston Deverill of Garfield Rich and Cecilia Evelyn Hinton 8/1

British Sailors Society flag day 8/1

ARP control 8/2

Longbridge Deverill jumble sale 8/2

Silver paper into alloy 8/2

Wedding of Nellie O.S. Taylor and Lancelot C. Turpin 8/3

Horningsham effort for Warminster Spitfire 8/3

Horningsham WI whist drive 8/3

German plane crew captured 8/4

A list compiled by Danny Howell of news items/articles in the Warminster Journal newspaper, issue dated Friday 18th October 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)

Horningsham whist drive 1/3

Horningsham WI 1/3

Funeral of Augusta Annie Trimby of Horningsham 1/4

Council ask for enquiry over resignation of senior group 2/1

Major Teichman and patriotism 2/2

Corsley whist drive 3/1

Cars for towing ARP trailer pumps 3/2

Christening of Nicola Lesley Jeanns Taylor at Bishopstrow 3/2

Possession of furnished rooms of J.G. Hynes at Chitterne 3/3

Weyhill Fair prices 3/4

Wilton October Fair prices 3/4

Funeral at St. John’s Church of Walter Curtis of 6 South View Road, Warminster 4/2

Red Cross jumble sale at Codford 4/2

Increase of casuals at Warminster due to closed wards at Salisbury 4/3

Stockton whist drive 4/3

Waltzing competition at Warminster Town Hall dance for Spitfire Fund 4/4

Chitterne WI 4/4

Wedding of Dulcie Louise Whitlock and Leslie Parker 5/2

Mrs Park appointed shorthand typist by the Council 5/3

Mrs T.C. Lloyd Anthony, preacher at Common Close Church, Warminster 5/3

Air raid shelter at rear of 40 Market Place, Warminster (Frisbys) 5/3

Engagement of Dr. Douglas Brock Peterkin and Truda Edwards 5/3

British Sailors Society 5/3

Tony Brifgman is a prisoner of war in Germany 5/3

London Missionary Society sale of work 5/3

Domus, Warminster 5/3

Warminster Market prices 5/3

Corsley WI 5/4

Nurse Phelps retiring 5/4

Warminster Spitfire donations 6/2

Heytesbury whist drive 6/2

E.J. Parrott of Bugley Farm, Warminster, ejection order against Clifford Durk 6/3

Tresco, Boreham Road, Warminster, black out offence 6/3

Colonel Wait, black out charge 6/4

Gwendoline Robertson of the Rookery, Imber Road, Warminster, car sidelights 6/4

James Rossiter, drunk 6/4

Funeral of William Moses Ponton Turner 7/2

Warminster Players ‘Cuckoo In The Nest’ for Spitfire Fund 7/3

Horace Wake at Minster Church Patronal Festival 8/1

Longbridge Deverill parish records and local history 8/1

Dhu’s Wall, Longbridge Deverill 8/1

Red Shield Salvation Army Club, Fairfield Road, Warminster 8/3

Heytesbury WI 8/3

Sutton Veny WI 8/3

A list compiled by Danny Howell of news items/articles in the Warminster Journal newspaper, issue dated Friday 11th October 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)

Warminster Womens British Legion 1/3

Military sports for Spitfire Fund 2/1

Clothing funds for evacuees 2/3

Warminster farmers Red Cross sale 2/4

Radio changes 2/4

Over £1,600 subscribed to Spitfire Fund 3/2

Bishopstrow whist drive 3/4

Bomb insurance 4/2

Death of William Moses Ponton Turner 4/3

Gifts to the Hospital 4/2

Longbridge Deverill and Crockerton WI 4/3

A war poem 5/1

Bishopstrow harvest festival 5/2

Burton Scott gains seven credits at Oxford 5/3

Donation of ten guineas to Warminster Town Football Club 5/3

German plane transporter at Silver Street, Warminster 5/3

J.B. Elliott at Minster Church, thanks for troops hospitality 5/3

Congregational Church, Warminster, harvest festival 5/3

Spitfire prize winners 5/3

Air Raid insurance 5/4

Major Teichman resigns as Air Raid Controller 6/3

German planes in Warminster area 6/3

Visit of Robert Grimston MP 6/3

Whist drive and dance at Warminster Town Hall for Spitfire Fund 6/4

Grow more food 7/2

Coal levy 7/3

Daisy Rhodes, stealing from James’ Hill House Cafe, Warminster 7/4

Support for local Home Guard teachers 8/1

School attendance, measles and scarlet fever 8/2

Warminster Avenue School, folk dancing 8/2

Longbridge Deverill spitfire donations 8/3

Wedding of Cyril George Hart and Alice May Newman at Sherrington 8/3

Corsley harvest festival 8/3

Guaranteed costs for farmers 8/4

Legal to destroy falcons in Dorset (for taking pigeons) 8/4