Category: Days During 1940

A list compiled by Danny Howell of news items/articles in the Warminster Journal newspaper, issue dated Friday 4th 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)

Fire at Wren House, Warminster 1/1

Royal Australian Air Force in Malaya 1/1

The right use of food 1/2

Wartime cookery 1/2

Warminster Town Football Club to carry on with friendly matches 1/3

G. Butcher appointed chief fire officer for rural brigade 2/1

Rural rate to be increased 2/1

Agricultural workers rents 2/1

Salvage collection at Sutton Veny dump 2/2

Codford water supply 2/2

Bratton water supply 2/2

Towing car for Codford Fire Brigade 2/3

Chapmanslade water 2/3

Crowded house for variety performance in aid of Spitfire Fund 2/3

Death of Mary Legg (formerly Miss Mines of Corsley) 2/4

Shelter bunks 2/4

Gymkhana at Beechgrove Farm, Warminster 3/2

Football 3/2

Codford Reading Circle 3/2

Ship and Punchbowl Inn, Warminster, transferred to Doris Ruby Greed 3/3

Angel Inn, Upton Scudamore, licence to John Ransley 3/3

The White Hart, Chitterne, transferred to Charles Vernon Mould 3/3

New Inn, Monkton Deverill, transferred to Frank Arthur Griffin 3/3

O’Loughlan, Lee and Carter theft of glass 3/3

Felecie Tweedy of 4 Boreham Terrace, Warminster, stealing 3/3

Edward Cox, High Street, Warminster, black out offence 3/4

Ellen Walford, Warden Parva, Heytesbury, black out offence 3/4

Edward George Chapman, 179 Chapel Street, Horningsham 3/4

Ernest Whatley, 6 Silver Street, Warminster 3/4

Manor Farm, West Ashton 3/4

Olive Ruth Pickford, Biss Farm, Upton Scudamore 3/4

Warminster Home Guard dinner at The Three Horse Shoes 4/3

Red Cross penny a week fund 4/3

Heytesbury collection for West Wilts Spitfire Fund 4/4

Horningsham harvest festival service 4/4

Warminster Market prices 5/2

New Inn, Monkton Deverill, furniture sale 5/2

Sutton Veny whist drive 5/2

Major Teichman resigns as ARP Controller 5/3

Miltary sports 5/3

James Rossiter, warrant 5/3

Len Smith, winner pigeon flying 5/2

Minster Church parade 5/3

Miss Newbold legacy to St. John’s Church, Warminster 5/3

Warminster ladies hockey 5/3

Walter Leslie Hamilton, military medal 5/3

Engagement of Peter J.H. Pope and Pauline Alys Horton 5/3

US Army to be reorganised 5/4

Henry Thomass Conway of Marshman & Son 6/3

John Frederick Mole 6/3

Spitfire Fund total 6/4

Spitfire donations 7/2

Re-seeding of land 7/2

War Savings 7/2

The British spirit 7/3

Harvest thanksgiving at the Minster Church, Warminster 8/1

Harvest thanksgiving at Christ Church, Warminster 8/1

Harvest thanksgiving at St. John’s Church, Warminster 8/2

Stockton whist drive 8/2

ARP 8/3

Wedding of Albert Charles Dowding and Everest Joan Collett 8/4

A list compiled by Danny Howell of news items/articles in the Warminster Journal newspaper, issue dated Friday 27th September 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)

ARP 1/1

4th Wilts Regiment 1/2

Football 1/2

No new fire escape for Warminster 1/3

Fire Brigade equipment 1/4

Wedding of William Henry Adlam and Lucy Carhart 2/1

Sutton Veny whist drive 2/1

Books for the troops 2/2

Schoolboys and the harvest 2/2

Letting houses at Princecroft Lane, Warminster 2/4

Council housing scheme 2/3

Spitfires attack German planes 3/2

Longbridge Deverill sale of work 3/2

Wiltshire fund for the blind 3/2

Mile of pennies for Spitfire Fund 3/3

E.H. Jarvis leaving the Angel Inn, Upton Scudamore 4/3

Wedding of William John Vincent and Evelyn Darcy 4/3

Wedding of Marjorie G. Farrar and Ernest A. Sollars 4/4

Golden wedding presentation to Mr and Mrs J.O. Lines of Sutton Veny 4/4

H.G. Grist appointed by the council 5/3

British Sailors Society flag day postponed 5/3

Royal Ancient Order of Buffaloes church parade 5/3

Fooballers to decide the future of the club 5/3

Warminster Market prices 5/3

Wedding of W. George Strong and Lilian G. Bradshaw 5/3

Tennis tournament for Spitfire Fund 5/3

Sale at The Lindens 6/2

Horningsham Womens Guild 6/2

Minster Church harvest festival 6/2

Bath Arms, whist drive 6/2

Air raid notes 6/3

Warminster WI 6/3

Malt restrictions 6/3

Irregularities at Warminster Market 6/4

Farmers sale for Red Cross 7/2

Air raid shelters 7/3

Private fire fighting units 8/1

Road repairs at Vicarage Street, Warminster 8/1

Payment to firemen for air raid duty 8/1

Clearance of lofts 8/1

Park keeper’s cottage, the Park, Warminster 8/2

W.S. Lewcock 8/2

Charles William Close 8/2

Air raid warnings 8/2

Importation of bananas from the Canary Islands 8/2

Warminster v. Bath 2nd XI, cricket 8/4

Storing fresh vegetables 8/4

A list compiled by Danny Howell of news items/articles in the Warminster Journal newspaper, issue dated Friday 20th September 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)

William Percy Clifton, rate default 1/1

Mrs Smart, 44 Vicarage Street, Warminster, rate arrears 1/1

Mrs. H. Smith, 3 Victoria Road, Warminster, rate arrears 1/1

Mabel Blight, 16 The Close, Warminster, rate arrears 1/1

Wedding of Kathleen Mary Butcher and A.S. Hugo 1/2

Free Churches 1/2

Opportunities for volunteers in RAF Air Crews 1/3

Spitfire Fund collection at Imber 1/3

Imber Home Guard 1/3

Motorists licences renewals 1/3

Children exposed to moral danger 1/4

Chitterne WI 1/4

RSPCA 1/4

Girl porters on London Underground 1/4

Wedding of Kathleen Maude Claydon and Eric Hamilton 2/1

Wedding of Daisy Ann Elliott and Louis Charles Parham 2/1

Plans to foil fifth columnists 2/2

Longbridge Deverill and Crockerton WI 2/2

Maiden Bradley WI 2/2

Donald McDonald in possession of stolen cloth 2/3

Fatal accident at Maiden Bradley 2/4

Reginald George Murrell 2/4

William Herbert Forsey 2/4

Jack Barter 2/4

Horningsham Church flower service 2/4

Horningsham WI 2/4

Warminster Market prices 3/2

Tascroft Cottage sale, Warminster 3/2

Wilton Sheep Fair prices 3/2

Wilton Great Fair 3/2

Death and funeral of Albert George Moody at Newtown 3/3

Warminster telephones 3/3

A. Cyril Hay of Job’s Mill, Crockerton 3/3

British Red Cross sale 3/3

Private Attwood, despatch rider killed at Codford 3/4

Sutton Veny tennis tournament for Spitfire Fund 3/4

Bishopstrow and Boreham WI 3/4

Wedding of A.W. Everett and Miss E. Dolphin 4/2

Red Cross auction at Trowbridge 4/2

Gymkhana and dog show at Longbridge Deverill 4/3

Wedding of Ivy Matilda Sugg and Edwin Stephen Goodenough 4/4

Heytesbury WI 4/4

Agricultural sale for Red Cross 5/3

Mrs Silcox and her Rhythm Boys Orchestra at Town Hall, Warminster 5/3

Lord Weymouth’s Grammar School 5/3

Harvest festival at Methodist Church, Warminster 5/3

British Legion whist drive 5/3

Street lighting at Melksham 5/4

Warminster Spitfire donations 6/3

Horningsham whist drive 6/4

Corsley WI 6/4

Codford WI 6/4

Sutton Veny whist drive 7/2

Cash for Spitfire Fund 7/3

Warminster Area Guardians 7/4

Spare allotment ground at The Tynings, Warminster 7/4

Porter’s Lodge at Sambourne, Warminster 7/4

Chitterne Harvest Thanksgiving 8/2

Spitfire brings down German plane 8/4

Ladies football 8/3

Picture houses full 8/3

Freddie Bartholomew film Two Bright Boys at the Regal Cinema, Warminster 8/4

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

Wiltshire Dairy Students 1/1

Funeral of Henry James Munday at Longbridge Deverill 1/2

Death of Maurice Leo Smart in a road accident 1/3

Alfred Joseph Burns killed in fall from a pole at Imber 1/4

Day of National Prayer 2/1

Winter accommodation for troops 2/2

Make your own air raid shelter 2/3

Warminster Spitfire donations 3/2

Christ Church, Warminster, day of National Prayer 3/4

Crockerton Harvest Festival 3/3

Funeral of James William McClellan Avery at Longbridge Deverill 4/2

Horningsham whist drive 4/2

Air raid damage in Bristol 4/3

Fatal road accident on the Horningsham road 4/4

Sergeant Bysouth 4/4

Ernest George Payne 4/4

Wedding of Walter Henry Coleman and Lilian Rhoda Hards 4/4

Old Bell Hotel dance for Spitfire Fund 5/3

More evacuees 5/3

British Legion Womens Section 5/3

Bridge drive 5/3

Mrs Alfred Hall 5/3

Mrs Percy Hall 5/3

Whist drive and dance at Warminster Town Hall for Spitfire Fund 5/3

Stockton whist drive 6/2

Funeral of Maurice Leo Smart 6/3

Rev. Hugo Carlo Bellasys appointed priest in charge at St. John’s Church, Warminster 6/4

Sutton Veny whist drive 6/4

Error in Rule Britannia 7/2

Wedding of Christina Cherry Clarice Coleman and John William Brown 6/4

Ladies Fancy Dress Football Match 7/3

Boyton, Corton and Sherrington effort for Spitfire Fund 8/1

Wedding at Boyton of Frederick Thomas Rugg and Jean Lucy Lawson 8/3

Home Guard 8/3

Teddy Payne 8/3

Warminster v. Frome, cricket 8/4

HMS Hermione 8/4

A list compiled by Danny Howell of news items/articles in the Warminster Journal newspaper, issue dated Friday 6th September 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)

CBE for A.C. Sykes 1/2

DFC for M.T.G. Henry 1/2

Home Guard 1/2

Warminster Spitfire Fund 1/3

Wedding of H.J. Withey and Gwendoline Florence Mary Trollope 2/1

National Day Of Prayer 2/1

Death and funeral of Boreham resident Frederick William Clifford 2/2

Air raid shelters 2/3

List of donations to Spitfire Fund 3/2

Rats 3/4

Warminster Market prices 4/2

Mothers Union 4/2

Codford Reading Circle 4/2

Ernest Batting of 4 Park View, Sutton Veny, cycle offence 4/2

Rhoda Legg of Duck Street, Sutton Veny, fined for showing a light 4/2

Ship and Punch Bowl, Warminster, licence 4/3

Doris Ruby Greed 4/3

William John George Turner, displaying a light 4/3

1 East End Avenue, Warminster 4/3

Henry G. Milner 4/3

Bath Arms, Crockerton 4/3

Albert Henry Gould, 9 Crockerton Green 4/3

Lily Willett, no dog licence 4/3

Thomas Beech, no dog licence 4/3

Phoebe Willett, no dog licence 4/3

William Henry Smith, 178 Tytherington, maintenance 4/4

Jean Dickson, Crockerton, pedal cycle offence 4/4

Billiards night for Red Cross 4/4

Margaret Diaper of Chitterne (New House Farm), cycle offence 5/2

Mr. and Mrs. H.G. Neale, The End Cottage, Upton Lovell, cycle offence 5/2

Pig killing 5/2

Mrs. Giles of South Street, Warminster 5/3

Dudley Durk is a prisoner of war 5/3

Old Bell Hotel, Warminster, dance organised by Mrs. Lance 5/3

British Blenheim bomber in Warminster 5/3

The Home Guard 5/3

Football 5/3

Lorry and tank crash at Boot Hill, Warminster 5/3

Gifts to the Hospital 5/3

British Legion whist drive 5/3

Bertram John Foyle, receiving beef 6/3

Alice Elizabeth Whittle of Princecroft Farm, milk offence 6/4

Heytesbury black out offenders 6/4

Margaret Beck, Mill Lane, Heytesbury 6/4

Siegfried Loraine Sassoon, Heytesbury House 6/4

Tennis tournament for Spitfire Fund 7/2

Gardening notes 7/3

Air raid notes 7/4

ARP Personnel 8/1

Collection of salvage 8/2

Mr. Sheppard, Sutton Veny 8/2

A.G. Pearce, Bratton 8/2

New towing car for Bratton fire pump 8/2

Chapmanslade Water Scheme 8/2

Rule Brittania 8/3

Food rationing 8/4

A list compiled by Danny Howell of news items/articles in the Warminster Journal newspaper, issue dated Friday 30th 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)

Horningsham Guild meeting 1/1

Horningsham WI 1/1

Warminster WI 1/1

Air Raid compensation 1/2

Death of George Mitchell of Sutton Veny 1/2

Increase in salvage 1/3

Death of noted scientist Sir Oliver Lodge 1/4

Normanton House, Lake 1/4

Funeral of George Mitchell at Sutton Veny 2/2

Wartime problems in rural England 2/4

Funeral of air raid shelter disaster victims 3/2

Gordon King 3/2

John Thomas Stroud 3/2

Warminster Spitfire 3/4

Wiltshire forces programmes on radio 4/2

Information Committee 4/3

Civil Defence 5/3

Billiards night for Red Cross 5/3

H.J. Luke will bequest to Football Club 5/3

Spitfire Fund 5/3

Rev. W. Eldridge farewell sermon at St. John’s Church, Warminster 5/3

Portway House gardens open for Nursing Association 5/3

Evacuation Scheme 5/3

Shipping losses 5/3

Sale of furniture at The Parsonage, Boreham Road, Warminster 6/1

Air Raid shelter disaster 6/3

Warminster bakers 6/3

Cottage loaf abolished 6/3

Warminster v. Devizes, cricket 6/4

Funeral of Samuel George Baker of Halfway Houses, Upton Scudamore 7/2

Maiden Bradley WI 7/2

Penny A Week Red Cross Fund 7/3

Wedding of Ernest George White and May Kathleen Grist 7/4

Two small boys killed in an air raid shelter collapse at Hillwood, Warminster 8/1

Ministry of Information 8/2

Death of Mary Ann Giles (Longleat House staff) 8/3

PDSA Flag Day 8/4

Crockerton scholarships, Jill H. Dicks, Hazel L. White, Pamela A. Godfrey 8/4

A list compiled by Danny Howell of news items/articles in the Warminster Journal newspaper, issue dated Friday 23rd 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)

Warminster Spitfire 1/1

Presentation to Castle Laundry manageress Miss E. Foreman 1/4

R. Dennison 1/4

Castle Laundry, Warminster 1/4

Funeral of Harriett Down of Heytesbury 2/1

Donald McDonald, cloth theft 2/2

Red Cross 4/2

Boy Scouts voluntary waste collection 4/2

Wiltshire efforts for aircraft 4/3

Wedding of Hubert Thomas Baker and Lilian May Russell 4/4

J.A. Stancomb awarded Military Cross 5/2

Ban on export of furs 5/2

Home Guard get 350,000 blankets 5/2

PDSA 5/3

Tennis tournament for Spitfire Fund 5/3

Baron Webb of Victoria Road, Warminster, in ladder fall 5/3

Death of Norman Ernest Pitts of 7 Luxfield Road, Warminster 5/3

Warminster Market prices 5/3

Wedding of Mabel Le Page and Frank Kersey 5/3

Christ Church Mission School treat 5/3

Sale at Foxholes, Crockerton, for wool fund 5/3

National Savings 6/2

Ministry of Information 6/4

Sunday School anniversary services at Horningsham Chapel 6/4

Horningsham Womens Guild 6/4

Death and funeral of Abraham Garrett 7/2

Cashing of postal orders by evacuees 8/1

Corsley School jumble sale 8/2

Red Cross, Penny A Week Scheme 8/3

Warminster v. Wilts United Dairies, cricket 8/4

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