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1857 Wokingham Elections: Tories and Whigs at war
This article originally published in 1st May Wokingham Paper 2015. In this week’s edition of ‘Wokingham Remembers’ we turn our… Read more…
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They remembered. What if we forget?
Six brothers of Emmbrook's Potter family joined the Great War. Only three returned home and two badly injured. Anna Matthews is… Read more…
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Journey to the centre of the dark Forest
In last week’s article we discovered the origins of the Royal Windsor Forest and its influence on the early communities… Read more…
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Andrew Radgick's books on Bracknell's Fallen of the Great War.
'Bracknell's Great War' By Andrew Radgick Andrew Radgick, History Officer of The Bracknell Forest Society, has spent four years researching… Read more…
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Winnie the Pooh and The Great War
Written by Mike. I'm not sure why we did it, but in 2003 my wife and I drove across Canada… Read more…
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1919 Victory ! Wokingham celebrates.
Local Historian, Jim Bell unearths this extensive coverage of Wokingham's Armistice Celebrations: "On Saturday, Wokingham duly celebrated the peace. The… Read more…
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What was in the Wokingham news during the Great War ?
These articles are all taken from one of the area’s principal newspapers, “The Reading Mercury (also including Oxford Gazette, Newbury… Read more…
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River Loddon – once a navigable waterway
The area surrounding Wokingham is usually considered to have been a secluded region until the development of the road and… Read more…
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Wokingham Remembers articles for The Wokingham Paper
A heritage page was launched in March 2015 with the title Wokingham Remembers with the objective of telling the Wokingham… Read more…
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Cecil and Ken discuss the schools which existed in the first half of the 20th Century. Cecil: "In 1914, when… Read more…
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The following WW1 names appear on the memorial inside Wokingham Town Hall. Click on a name to discover their biography:
Henry Sadler : James Sadler : James W Sadler : Frederick A Sargeant : Robert Sargeant : Victor Sargeant : Arthur Sharp : Ernest Shuttle : Alfred G Smith : Norman H Smith : Richard Smith : Francis A Stanley : Frank C Stokes : George Street : Harold S Street : William Sturgess : Edward J Swadling : Frederick J Swain : H V Surman : Frank Sutton
Thank you for this very informative website. Richard Smith was the brother of my grandmother, Ellen. I had already managed to find information about Richard from The Commonwealth War Graves website but to see the details you provided in the biography and of course the photograph, was very moving but greatly appreciated.