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Sat 21 July
On Saturday morning, between 10 and 11, a leveret made its way via the main
streets from west to east amid considerable excitement.

A swarm of bees found a most unusual resting place in the town on Saturday about
noon, finally settling on a lamp-post in the Market Place. They were removed during
the afternoon by Mr. W. Martin.

About 25 names were taken in the Market Place after an address by Councillor L.E.
Quelch, of Reading, who advocated the formation of a local branch of the National
Union of General Workers.

LOCAL SCHOOLMASTER WINS MILITARY MEDAL
Lance-Corporal Arthur Myatt, City of London Regiment, Civil Service Rifles, has
just been awarded the Military Medal for an act of great gallantry. On a night in June
his company was holding a front trench. On being relieved Lance-Corporal Myatt and
his chum were the only fit men left. All night, with their Lewis gun, they had held off
the enemy, beside attending to the wounded. Mr. Myatt is a well-known local
schoolmaster, and was educated at Palmer School and Culham College.

DEATH IN THE HANDS OF THE TURKS
The parents of Driver Frank Treacher, Royal Field Artillery, residing at Embrook
Lodge, Wokingham, have just received official notice of his death while a prisoner in
the hands of the Turks. He was captured with General Townsend’s forces at Kut on
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August 28 , 1916. His parents had not seen him for nine years. When war broke out
he was in India with his battery, within a month of coming home time expired. He
was sent to Mesopotamia, with the sad result as above. Mr. and Mrs. W. Treacher
have two other sons serving in H.M. Forces. Much sympathy is felt for them in their
bereavement. The deceased soldier was well known as a lad in Wokingham, where he
attended Palmer School.

WOUNDED SOLDIERS REGALED
Some forty to fifty wounded soldiers from the Bear Wood and Easthampstead Road
War Hospitals were entertained to tea and a concert on Wednesday in the Baptist
Sunday School. The hostesses were the Wesleyan Women’s Meeting, and but for the
weather, the function would have been held in Alderman Sale’s garden,
Easthampstead Road. A bounteous tea was provided. Mrs. A.J. Bennett (president)
and Mrs. Tucker (secretary) carried out the arrangements. Following tea a capital
programme was carried out by Misses D. Sale and M. Boshier, Mrs. Trowell,
Sergeant Steer, Sergeant Minhinnick, Private Foreman, and others. Miss Wakefield
accompanied on the piano. The Rev. T. W. Beck, of reading presided.

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Sat 4 August
Extract from Palmer School annual treat article—The members of the Wokingham
Fire Brigade attended as usual with their engine for the purpose of boiling the water
required for the tea.

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Sat 18 Aug
SUB-LIEUT. VICTOR H. NICHOLSON KILLED IN ACTION

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