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Spring 2017 Newsletter
Spring 2017 Newsletter News from the Front line It takes me all week to get through the Saturday edition of Daily Telegraph so by today (Thursday) I finally got through to the travel supplement. It beats me why you have to have a whole supplement on the purchase of expensive watches but perhaps I am not in the wage bracket of other Telegraph readers. Anyway, having scanned through the travel section, skipping the cruises as I had spent enough time at sea on the ‘Grey Funnel line’, it was nice to see a centre page spread all about Arras, in France, and the forthcoming 100th anniversary of the Battle of Arras and Vimy Ridge. Throughout the night of 8th April the weather had been atrocious with wind, rain and snow falling on the 350,000 troops who were deployed on the Third Army front around Arras and the 30,000 Canadians in trenches in front of Vimy Ridge. Not a good start for the day of battle on the 9th. The fact that this had happened a mere 41 years before the day I was born puts it all into perspective for me. One can only imagine what thoughts were going through the minds of the troops and what they had to endure in such conditions as well as fighting uphill to the ridge at Vimy in the case of the Canadian Divisions. On this year’s 100th anniversary of the Battle it is only right that the Canadians take ‘centre stage’ for their participation and victory at Vimy Ridge on which stands their memorial to the missing. -
MUDIES of ANGUS in German to the German Settlers in Klemzig and Lectured on a Variety of Subjects
MUDIES OF ANGUS i MUDIES OF ANGUS THE MUDIES OF ANGUS by Sir Francis Mudie, K.C.S.I., K.C.I.E., O.B.E and Commander Ian M. N. Mudie, M.B.E., R.N. 1959 ii MUDIES OF ANGUS PREFACE MUDIE is one of the oldest of Lowland Scots names. In the thirteenth century, and probably earlier, it was spelt Modi and has been spelt in a great many ways since. Now there are, practically speaking, only two spellings, Mudie and Moodie. With only one exception that we have been able to find, all families of Angus origin use the former spelling and, again with only one exception, all those whose origin is outside Angus use the latter. Mudie is the older spelling, originating about the beginning of the sixteenth century. Moodie started to become common in the eighteenth and its adoption would appear to be the result of the increased contact with England which followed the Union of 1707. Nothing definite is known of the origin of the Mudies. Traditionally they are of Norse descent and this receives some confirmation from the fact that in early times they are found, almost exclusively, in those parts of Scotland raided by the Norsemen: in Angus along the coast from Dundee to Montrose: in Fife on the Forth near Dunfermline; on the Firth of Clyde below Glasgow and on the shores of the Pentland Firth. In Angus the Mudies early spread from the Sidlaw Hills, which seems to have been their original home, to the towns of Dundee, Arbroath, Montrose, in which many of them attained considerable prominence in public life in the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. -
V . C Book Ppx5
The Victoria Cross Awarded for Valour 1914 - 1918 Page 2 F•O•R •V•A•L•O•U•R• Page 3 Foreword This book is dedicated to those who fought in the First world War. The opening pages are a compilation of information to try and set the scene in giving some details of the disposition and formation of the British armed forces at the opening of the war. These were the Troops that were to be famously called by the German Kaiser that ‘Contemptible Little Army ‘ He was to come to regret those words . Those who survived the terrible early days of the War formed a Welfare Society called ‘The Old Contempt- ible's for the benefit of the ‘Chums’ as they called themselves . Many brave and gallant deeds were done and it would not be possible to list all the heroic events, The stories of the Victoria Cross Holders epitomise the deeds of so many of those men. Nobody was to foresee the terrible toll that this war was to have upon Europe and indeed the world during it’s long and bloody conflict and by its end some 603 Victoria Crosses had been awarded. Of course we must remember that we were in France to support our allies and friends the French, but because there is insufficient space to record their efforts it must be left to them tell their own stories. ‘The Great War’ by The Amalgamated Press editor H.W.Wilsom was published in 13 volumes over 5 years, I have tried to faithfully reproduce the text of those pages of the ‘The Great War’ which pertain to the ‘For Valour’ chapters and give us such stirring stories . -
Fcc Newsletter 24
A Newsletter for the Friends of Not so Grave News Cathays Cemetery o September 2015 Issue N 24 Always Something New to Enjoy in the Cemetery, though generally in small discrete clumps, is red valerian. Red valerian Easier to miss are two small members of the White roses rose family, potentilla reptans and potentilla Sometimes the immediate aftermath of clearing erecta. The former, better known as creeping an area looks a bit stark, but nature responds cinquefoil, has a small yellow five petalled quite quickly, possibly with plants that have flower … and is not welcomed by gardeners if it been choked previously and have been given the appears in their lawns. The second plant, opportunity to bounce back. This has been well common name tormentil, is smaller and favours demonstrated in section K where, following acid heath or moorland habitat. It is much clearance by Bereavement Services, a wall of harder to find in the Cemetery, but looks very white rambling rose has appeared and that similar to the cinquefoil, except that its flowers pioneer of newly cleared places, rosebay have only four yellow petals (unusual in members willowherb, produced a sea of pink. Of course, of the rose family). both of these have the potential to spread rapidly and become next year's problem! Rosebay willowherb Creeping cinquefoil Another flower that seems increasingly at home We sometimes take our wealth of fir trees for granted, but they can exhibit seasonal changes Friends TOPICAL that, for a short period, brighten their normal monotone appearance. If you catch these transitory effects in the right light conditions, then so much the better, as the picture below hopefully shows. -
Handbook Schools
Po Fulton County Indiana Handbook SCHOOLS * * * * * PAW PAW SCHOOL [Aubbeenaubbee Township] Located in Section 21, NW corner 1000W [SR-17] and 400N, on same road as church known as Pumpkin Head Church. __________ [photo] Paw-Paw School in Aubbeenaubbee Township 1908-09. Also known as Small Pox, this school stood at the corner of 1000W and 400N on the north side of the road. Front Row: Ray Lewis, Walter Johnson, Geneva Van Kirk, Mabel Johnson, Esther McClain, Joe Shidaker, Everett Young, Ray Ginther, Joe Denny behind Bert Mahler, Esther Owen, Bertha Shidaker. Row 2, Oren Seeley, Walter McClain, S. O. Daugherty, Scott McClain, Omer Pickens, Rufus Shidaker, William Owen, Clyde Denny, Hazel Rerrick, L. C. Daugherty. Row 3: Mary Owen, Dessie Young, Lorraine Seeley, Leone Pickens, Mary Daugherty, Bertha McClain, Ola Shidaker. Row 4: Clarence Young, Ralph Daugherty, Ernest Pickens, Lorie Tharp, Rueben Daugherty, Howard Gillespie - teacher. (Photo from Bertha McClain Tash’s scrapbook) [FCHS Quarterly No. 48, p.30] [photo, cover] Paw Paw (also known as Small Pox) School in the fall of 1912. Everett Young pitches to batter William Owens, while Walter McClain serves as catcher. Out front to the right is Scott McClain. Walter Johnson stands in the doorway. Teacher (tall man in back row) is Omer Reichard. Row 1: Cecil Young, Bert Mahler, Gerald Feece, Everett Overmyer, Ray Ginther, Lucille Hammond, Mabel Seeley, Vera McClain, Grace McClain, Ethel Johnson, Lyvel Mahler, Florence Lewis, Ethel Overmyer. Row 2: Emmit McClain, teacher, Esther McClain, Mabel Johnson, Esther Owens, Geneva Van Kirk. (Photo: Mrs. Harold E. (Ethel Overmyer) Harding) [FCHS Quarterly No. -
Winning the V. C
Won derfu l Stori es . Wi n n i n g th e V C. i n th e Great War W1th a colouredfron ttspiece an d56 otber full a illus r ion s rin d on art a er s eciall p ge t at , p te p p , p y Ba dato o Bur ss S . ul s A r h ur in db W. pa te y g p , t ge , Br n Mon a u Da son r oh n de G. w Ed j y a , t g e , ga A . P a A . G . Hollowa rs S ew r H. A . y , e e, t a t, Sw n wic etc. a k, NE W YORK D TT N AND COMPAN Y P. U O E. IF H A VENUE 681, F T LIST OF ILLU ST RAT IO N S Lieutenan t Rhodes -Moorhouse fly in g over Courtrai to b omb the railway Captain Theodore Wright conn ecting up the lead for destroying a b ri d e s hi n r v r fire g at Mon , w lst u de e y heavy C Wr V C. r woun ded assistin woun ded aptain ight, , falls mo tally while g men into shelter Pr S . F ivate . Godley routs the massed attacks of the Germans at the t n Br fire h i s hi - idge , Mons , by the deadly of mac ne gun C F . O . Gr f r 9th L r aptain enfell , assisted by o fice s and men of the ance s , manhandling gun s out of acti on near Doub on C i R . -
Nr1 Name Rank Unit Campaign Campaign. Campaign.. Date Of
Nr1 Name Rank Unit Campaign Campaign. Campaign.. Date of action 1 Thomas Beach Private 55th Regiment of Foot Crimean War Battle of Inkerman Crimea 5 November 1854 2 Edward William Derrington Bell Captain Royal Welch Fusiliers Crimean War Battle of the Alma Crimea 20 September 1854 3 John Berryman Sergeant 17th Lancers Crimean War Balaclava Crimea 25 October 1854 4 Claude Thomas Bourchier Lieutenant Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own) Crimean War Sebastopol Crimea 20 November 1854 5 John Byrne Private 68th Regiment of Foot Crimean War Battle of Inkerman Crimea 5 November 1854 6 John Bythesea Lieutenant HMS Arrogant Crimean War Ã…land Islands Finland 9 August 1854 7 The Hon. Clifford Henry Hugh Lieutenant Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own) Crimean War Battle of Inkerman Crimea 5 November 1854 8 John Augustus Conolly Lieutenant 49th Regiment of Foot Crimean War Sebastopol Crimea 26 October 1854 9 William James Montgomery Cuninghame Lieutenant Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own) Crimean War Sebastopol Crimea 20 November 1854 10 Edward St. John Daniel Midshipman HMS Diamond Crimean War Sebastopol Crimea 18 October 1854 11 Collingwood Dickson Lieutenant-Colonel Royal Regiment of Artillery Crimean War Sebastopol Crimea 17 October 1854 12 Alexander Roberts Dunn Lieutenant 11th Hussars Crimean War Balaclava Crimea 25 October 1854 13 John Farrell Sergeant 17th Lancers Crimean War Balaclava Crimea 25 October 1854 14 Gerald Littlehales Goodlake Brevet Major Coldstream Guards Crimean War Inkerman Crimea 28 October 1854 15 James Gorman Seaman -
Fcc Newsletter 25
A Newsletter for the Friends of Cathays Cemetery Not so Grave News o December 2015 Issue N 25 Halcyon days It has been a superb season for fungi at both the old and new sections of the cemetery, After the longest of Indian summers, Storm endorsing the area’s identification as a Site of Abigail arrived – followed very quickly by Importance for Nature Conservation and Barney – with gale-force winds and torrential reinforcing the need to maintain most carefully rain reminding us that it was, in fact, autumn, the extensive grounds, a task handled very and winter was just around the corner. competently by the crew from Bereavement Services, with a little help from the Friends on their workdays. Autumn trees Still, it was a glorious autumn, with the wide Scarlet waxcaps variety of trees in the cemetery’s ‘arboretum’ Waxcap fungi have been particularly numerous providing a continuous palette of sumptuous at the new cemetery, where the Scarlet, golds and oranges and reds to delight the Butter, Parrot and Ballerina varieties appear visitor’s eye. The berries, too, seemed like tiny jewels in the swathes of grass between particularly plentiful this year, with the rowan, the headstones. Looking like they belong yew, hawthorn and dogwood trees all heavily beneath the ocean waves rather than above laden with juicy red fruit. ground Smokey Spindles and Coral fungi have also been fruiting well this season. Rowan Tree with berries Coral fungi Friends TOPICAL Perhaps less welcome, though forming very picturesque fairy rings, are the Redlead Roundheads. This invasive species came originally from Australia but has now made itself at home throughout Europe and the UK by hitching a ride amongst things like wood chippings.