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GRINDING TO A HALT – THE NEW ARMY - 1915 "SURVIVORS OF THE Inspector Eade yesterday stated Brickfields, on Friday, FORMIDABLE. There appears to that the Admiralty had asked that 16th of April, 1915, At 11 o'clock be little doubt now that of the Mackin be sent back to the naval precisely, the EXCELLENT officers and crew of the battleship depot, and he therefore asked for BRICKFIELD PLANT, Including Formidable, which, as reported on the discharge of the man. 5 single pug mills (by Gardiner), page 3, was sunk in the Channel "If you had been sent back last 500 feet of 2½ in. shafting and on the morning of New Year's week," said Mr. Gillespie, "you plumber blocks, quantity of 4 in. Day, only 201 have been saved. would possibly have been at the cast iron socket pipes, 8 h.p. The ship went down between 3 bottom of the sea by now." Daily portable engine (by Marshall), and 3.30. There were from 700 to Express – 5th January 1915. pumps, a large quantity of 800 men on board at the time. Of CREOSOTED TIMBER that has the four boats launched, one, a been used as permanent hacks, and barge, capsized and several men is suitable for general building were thrown out, the second, also a purposes, and about 1,500,000 barge, got away with about 70 bricks (grizzles, place, etc.). Also men, who were picked up by a the TOP-SAIL BARGE, "OAK," light cruiser; the third, a pinnace, of , 44 tons register. also with some 60 men, got ashore Further particulars may be at Lyme Regis, and the fourth, a obtained of the Auctioneers, launch, with 70 men, after being in . Dover Express on a rough sea for about 11 hours, 19th April 1915 was rescued about 15 miles off Berry Head by the trawler ROYAL GARRISON Providence, and brought into ARTILLERY () Brixham. Survivors have given soldiers slow to return from graphic accounts of the foundering leave of the battleship and of their § 70. Mr. GOLDSTONE asked the terrible experiences. The South Under-Secretary for War whether Eastern Gazette - 5th January. certain men of the Royal Garrison BRICKFIELD JOB LOSSES Artillery at present stationed at "TEYNHAM: Messrs. Eastwood TWIST IN THE TALE..... HMS Garrison Point Fort, Sheerness, and Co have closed for an Formidable deserter from 1910 have been refused the leave of indefinite period, their brickworks in custody as ship sinks absence promised some time ago; at , Teynham. This course “SAFE IN GOAL. Patrick Mackin, whether he will state what is the has been taken owing to the great a ship's fireman, was charged at reason for this refusal; and falling off in the demand for bricks West Ham yesterday with being a whether men concerning whom no caused by the war. About 100 deserter from H.M.S. Formidable, complaint has been made are being employees are affected----" which sank in the Channel on New penalised because of the failure of Faversham and North East Year's-day. a few of their comrades to return News, 16th January 1915. The man gave himself up on to duty at the expiration of their

December 22 on his return from a leave of absence? foreign voyage, saying he left the BRICKFIELD EQUIPMENT § Mr. TENNANT - The men were SALES TEYNHAM, Formidable when she was at divided into batches for the SITTINGBOURNE. MODERN Sheerness in August 1910. After a purpose of Christmas leave. BRICKFIELD PLANT. Messrs. week's remand the Admiralty had Almost all of the first batch JACKSON & SONS. Are not sent the required information, overstayed their leave three or four instructed by Messrs. Mr. Mercer and he was further remanded to days. In consequence of this the and Co. (owing to the closing of Brixton Gaol. second batch were warned, but the Upper Field), to Sell by they also overstayed their leave. Auction, at the Frognal

As a result of this disregard of will be taken in turn; on Sunday accident. Several of the men were orders, all leave was stopped morning, after a church parade at married and have left widows and except in the case of those men , the troop will families. who had passed their drills. march through Doddington and Society Note: Forgotten? Herbert Hansard Report on House of Newnham to Greenstreet; on Croucher - Stoker Petty Officer, Commons Debate on 8th February Monday, , , No. 182769 - is not otherwise 1915 (vol 69 c242 242) Bredgar, and will be memorialised in Doddington nor visited; and on Tuesday the troop by this project as his life in VOLUNTARY TRAINING will return to Herne, via . Doddington was short-lived - CORPS MARCHES ON Another similar march in East although clearly local memory was GREENSTREET. Kent is being arranged. Kent included by this newspaper. The Sittingbourne Voluntary Messenger - 17th April 1915 Perhaps this omission should be Training Corps, despite the revisited? Herbert was born in inclement weather, had a march- RECRUITS Margate, and by 1901 he had out to the village of Greenstreet on "The Lynsted list of men serving joined the Navy, stationed at Wednesday evening [17th in H.M. Forces now numbers close Chatham. He died on 1st January February], for the purpose of upon a hundred men, representing 1915 whilst serving on H.M.S. assisting in forming a new Corps about 9 per cent of the population Formidable. His next of kin is at that place. The Commandant of the parish – a very creditable listed as his friend, Miss Minnie (Mr. W.S. Cowper) was in charge, record." Faversham and North Long or 84, King Street, and on arrival the President East Kent News on 17th July Gillingham. His body was not (Brigadier-General P.D. Jeffreys) recovered.] The Faversham and inspected the men. Afterwards a TEYNHAM RECRUITS North East News on 7th August meeting was held, at which the Teynham has now at least 115 men 1915 speakers were the General, Mr. in the Forces. Writing in the Cowper, Mr A.A. Richards Deanery Magazine the Vicar says: (Secretary of the Sittingbourne "The last few days has seen a Corps), Mr. P.D. Selby, and latter's revival in the number of those who son, Lieut. Selby, R.N., of H.M.S. offer themselves. St. Andrew’s has Lion, who came in for a great lost its organist, and our fine choir reception. As a result of the at the Parish Church is almost meeting a section of the depleted of men. We thank them Sittingbourne Corps will be for all they have done in the past, formed at Greenstreet, and staff- and hope that before long happier sergeants of the Dublin Fusiliers ties will bring them back again." will undertake the training, as at The Faversham and North East Sittingbourne. Kent Messenger of Kent News of 18th December 20th February 1915 THE ROLL OF HONOUR. RECRUITMENT MARCH IN Last Wednesday [4th August] was THE VILLAGES the anniversary of the outbreak of ROYAL EAST KENT the War. During the year MOUNTED RIFLES. A depot is Faversham and the district has being formed for the Royal East lost by death as many as 50 men, Kent Mounted Rifles at that is to say men who belonged GAS! Canterbury, for which 220 recruits here either by birth, or the 22nd April 1915 saw the first use are to be raised, and Lieutenant A. residence of their parents, or by of Poison Gas which caused Faunce de Laune, of the 2nd their own residence here. mayhem on the Front. Regiment, has been appointed The list is possibly incomplete, but With the opening of the Second recruiting officer. Lieut. de Laune it includes all whom we have been Battle of Ypres (22nd April - 15th will take a troop from the 2nd able to trace. May 1915), the Germans Regiment on a recruiting march Of the total number 35 belonged to introduced poison gas against into some of the rural districts of the Army or Territorials, and 14 to French trenches. The impact of the country next week. On the Navy, while one as employed this weapon is picked up in the Thursday Chartham and Chilham in Sheerness Dockyard. Forty-two context of the death of Private will be visited; on Friday the troop have either been killed in action, Leonard Terry (a Teynham man) will go to Charing and Lenham; on died of wounds, or lost at sea, the that occurred on 3rd May. Saturday, Ulcombe, Sutton deaths of the remaining eight Valence, Leeds and Hollingbourne being due to either illness or

“CAPTAIN LORD TEYNHAM, and he was wounded in the leg. bank at Buckland Corner, Norton, Captain Lord Teynham, who is the The young officer is now in where the Faversham Rural 18th Baron and takes his title from hospital at Farnborough, and is District Council is carrying out a the village of that name between progressing so well that he may corner improvement, the workmen Sittingbourne and Faversham, is in shortly be expected home." on Tuesday [20th April] came the trenches with his Regiment, the On 31st March he was promoted to across the skeleton of a human 6th Buffs (East Kent Regt.) Lord Captain - Reported on 3rd April being. The skeleton was embedded Teynham, who is 48 years of age, 1915 in the West Kent Gazette: in the chalk. The Highway was a Captain in the East Kent "Lieut. Gerard P. Selby, RAMC, Surveyor had the bones collected. Yeomanry for some years previous son of Dr and Mrs Selby, of Later reported [4th May]: to the war." Kent Messenger on Greenstreet, has been promoted to SKELETON AT NORTON. The 2nd October 1915. the rank of Captain, the promotion skeleton found at Buckland to date from March 30th." West Corner, Norton, is thought to be GREENSTREET VOLUNTEER Kent Gazette on 20th March 1915 probably that of a person who TRAINING CORPS & AN committed suicide, and, in ENTERTAINMENT accordance with the old custom, GREENSTREET. A section of the INJURED SOLDIERS ARRIVE was buried at the cross-roads. Sittingbourne and District IN FAVERSHAM Twenty-four South Eastern Gazette of 27th Volunteer Training Corps has been wounded soldiers, direct from the April and 4th May 1915 formed at Greenstreet, and already front, have been admitted into the has 50 members, among whom are military hospital at Faversham. BLACKBIRD KILLED IN the Vicar of Teynham, Rev. W.A. There are now just over fifty men BOMBING RAID Purton, and his curate, Rev. A.B. in the hospital. Herne Bay Express 15th April, the path of the bombs. Cole, Mr. W.R. Stonhame, of on 27th March 1915 “Our Sittingbourne correspondent Scuttington Manor, has undertaken says that directly after the the temporary charge of the ABSENT WITHOUT LEAVE appearance of the Taube over that section, and Mr. R. Seager, of the "TEYNHAM - At the Faversham town, another air machine, flying Dover Castle, is acting as Hon. County Police Court this (Friday) considerably lower and carrying a Sec. The Section meets for drill on morning (before E Chambers, pilot, was seen following it. The Mondays at 8.30 p.m., Wednesday Esq), Charles Lucas, who at 7.30 pm and Sundays at 9 am. was in plain clothes, TEYNHAM. Colonel and Mrs pleaded guilty to being an Honeyball last week entertained at absentee from the Newgardens about 100 wives and Queen’s Royal West dependents of men belonging to Surrey Regiment. PC the Teynham district who are Hogg stated that at 6.30 serving their country. The the previous evening he gathering was under the auspices saw prisoner at his home of the Faversham Division of the in Greenstreet and asked Soldiers’ and Sailors;; Families if he was absent without Association, and Lady Violet leave. He admitted he had Milles, the Hon. Secretary of the been absent since the 9th of this Taube could barely be Division, was present. The guests month. Prisoner, who said the distinguished; but when it greatly appreciated the hospitality reason he had not returned was executed a circling movement its of Col. And Mrs. Honeyball and that he had been queer with wings glittered in the sunlight. The very much enjoyed the gathering. neuralgia, was ordered to be German circled the district twice, Faversham and North East Kent detained until an escort arrived." during which three bombs were News - 12th June 1915 Society Note: Charles was a dropped, and then he darted off in brother to James Lucas who lost the direction from which he had "A GREENSTREET OFFICER his life on 5th September 1915, come, leaving his pursuer - said to WOUNDED. We regret to learn only a matter of two weeks after be a Frenchman - far in the rear. that Lieut Gerard P. Selby, this event. Faversham and North One bomb fell in an orchard near RAMC, the eldest son of Dr and East Kent News on 21st August Gore Court Park, where it Mrs. Selby, of Greenstreet, exploded and damaged a tree, Teynham, was wounded on March SKELETON AT NORTON/ killing a blackbird. Some people 7th, Lieut. Selby, who is attached BUCKLAND CROSSROADS were walking about 50 years off, to the 1st Battalion, Argyll and (possible suicide) but they were unhurt. Another Sutherland Highlanders, was DISCOVERY AT NORTON. bomb fell in an earth-pit in Messrs. standing near a shell which burst, While removing a portion of a Burley's brickfield at Cryalls,

Borden, a mile westwards from prisoner in a collapsed state, and 10s. with Messrs. Croft, Gore Court Park. This exploded administer an emetic, and she Sittingbourne. Prisoner pleaded and threw up a cloud of earth, but afterwards became better. In a bag guilty, and was bound over for that was all. The third bomb fell in prisoner had left in the garden twelve months. [Court case heard a brickfield at Grovehurst, Milton, were found torn packages bearing on 11th January] Kent Messenger two miles due north of Gore Court, the labels "Salts of lemon." The and South Eastern Gazette - 12th in the direction of Sheppey. This brother also found in the garden a January 1915 bomb embedded itself in the earth note in pencil addressed "To the without exploding. The whole raid Coroner." The papers and the note, FAVERSHAM COUNTY lasted about twenty minutes. it appeared, were afterwards POLICE COURT. Ernest Before one could realise what had thrown into the fire by the brother, Lennard, 17, of Oare, pleaded happened the daring raider had who now stated that "he did not guilty to stealing a quantity of gone, and, in spite of rifle and gun think they would be required." On potatoes, value 1s. 6d., at fire at Sittingbourne, Faversham, the following day the prisoner was Luddenham, the property of Mr. and from some guns at Sheerness, removed to the Infirmary. When Percy French, on January 11th. As the German succeeded in quitting apprehended she denied taking the it was a first offence the Bench Kent unscathed. salts, stating she bought them and bound prisoner over. South From the course taken by the threw them away just to frighten Eastern Gazette - 26th January Taube, it is thought that the her brother. Prisoner was 1915 machine came from Zeebrugge. It committed for trial at the East is described as a biplane fitted with Kent Quarter Sessions. East Kent STRIKE A LIGHT! floats. The opinion is held that it Gazette on 11th May 1915. "A DANGEROUS PRACTICE. was on a scouting expedition. "EAST KENT QUARTER Alfred Frederick Baker, a youth, At Deal, shortly before one SESSIONS. Emmeline Ada of Barrow Green, Teynham, was o'clock, the buzz of an aeroplane Barling, aged 46, a music hall fined 15s. For taking matches on caused many of the inhabitants to artiste, was indicted for attempting to the works of the Cotton Powder go into the streets and stare at the to commit suicide by taking salts Co. contrary to the regulations on clouds, but nothing was to be seen, of lemon at Lynsted on April 29th. November 6th. even with the aid of telescopes, as Mr. Gibson appeared for the The Chairman said that his there were heavy banks of clouds. prosecution, and prisoner pleaded dangerous practice must be People at Kingsdown, a little not guilty. stopped and future offenders village two miles away, claim to Lord Harris, in summing up the would be dealt with more severely. have seen a German aeroplane evidence, said it must be equally Mr. Foley, foreman, said that as emerge from the clouds, and they distressing to the jury, as it was to defendant's mother was a widow say that it came south at a great himself, to find a member of a the Company would pay the fine." height - a mere speck in the sky - family of such old standing and so Whitstable Times and Herne Bay and was apparently travelling respected in the neighbourhood of Herald on 27th November 1915 towards Dunkirk. Shortly Sittingbourne in such a position. afterwards a number of British Of course they must not allow any LYNSTED - THEFT OF airmen were seen giving chase.” feelings of sympathy to govern HORSE AND CART. South Eastern Gazette on 20th their decision, but he pointed out FAVERSHAM COUNTY April 1915 that prisoner was very emphatic in POLICE COURT. At the Sessions her statement that she did not take on Thursday [4th March], Captain ALLEGED ATTEMPTED the poison. The jury found her not Hooper presiding, Thomas SUICIDE. Emmeline Ada guilty." Kent Messenger on 3rd Russell, no fixed abode, was Barling, who has been residing at July 1915 charged, on remand, with stealing, Faversham, was charged before at Lynsted, on Sunday, Feb. 28th, Captain Cheetham at the County PETTY CRIMES a horse and harness, value £27, the Police Court on Thursday, with property of Albert William Clark, attempting to commit suicide. It STOLEN JEWELLERY - Edith of Bredgar; also a cart, value £3 appeared that on Thursday Louisa Kemp, a young domestic (to which the horse was attached, evening, April 29th, prisoner went servant, belonging to Lynsted, was and which Clark had borrowed), to her aunt's at Lynsted. She went charged with stealing a gold the property of John Goodhew, of into the garden, subsequently bracelet and a gold diamond ring, Bredgar. The horse and cart were returning to the house and valued at £15 10s., the property of taken from outside the informing her aunt she had taken Mrs. Murdock, the wife of the Foxhunter's public house, "the poison." Archibald Barling, a Headmaster of Borden Grammar Lynsted, on Sunday afternoon, brother, went for a doctor, and Dr. School, between June and October. while the prosecutor Clark and J.P. Henderson attended. He found The articles had been pawned for some friends were inside having some refreshment. The prisoner CHARGE AGAINST A Complainant then took up a pail of left the house at about the time GREENSTREET GIRL. At the dirty water and threw over her. they entered. At about 5.30 the Faversham County Police Court on Eleanor Dennis, of Austin's same afternoon the horse and cart Friday [9th July 1915], Elizabeth Cottages, Greenstreet, were found unattended at Frances Tumber, 19, residing at corroborated. Doddington, two miles from Greenstreet, was charged with The Bench dismissed the case, the Lynsted, and the prisoner was also breaking and entering the house of Chairman saying that they felt it seen there. He was not, however, John Robert Goodwin, residing ought never to have been brought with the horse at that time. On the next door, and stealing one there as it was evidently a following day he was arrested at shilling. It appeared that in neighbours' quarrel. They hoped , when he admitted consequence of having missed that in future they would live in taking the horse away the previous money the prosecutor marked two harmony together. Mr. French, afternoon, and said he had been separate shillings. On Thursday J.P., did not adjudicate in this drinking and must have lost his last he and his wife were out case." Whitstable Times and Herne senses. Prisoner now said he had during the day, and when they Bay Herald of 27th November no intention of stealing, and that it returned in the evening one of the 1915 was merely a foolish act. The marked coins was missing from a Bench thought he had not drawer. The police were informed AT OARE - CYCLISTS IN felonious intent, and dismissed the and it was subsequently found that TROUBLE. Sidney Simmons, of charge, the Chairman a marked shilling (identified by 29, Cromwell Road, Whitstable, reprimanding him and pointing out prosecutor as the missing one) had William Beesley, of Banks that he had done a very serious been tendered by prisoner at a Cottage, Teynham, Walter Venner, thing. Kent Messenger - 9th March shop in Greenstreet for the hire of of Lactus Cottage, , 1915 a bicycle. Prisoner was arrested, William Hudson, of 36, Priory and on the way to Faversham said Row, North Preston Without, CHARGE OF HOUSE- she unlocked prosecutor's back Alfred Bourne, of Pig Green, BREAKING. At the County Petty door with her mother's back door Eastling, and Frank Hudson Sessions on Thursday [1st July key, and went upstairs and took Metcalfe, of Saxon Road, 1915] (Mr. W.W.Berry in the the money. The Magistrate Faversham, were summoned for chair), Robert George Seager reduced the charge to one of having lights on their cycles of Croft, were charged with breaking felony, and prisoner was remanded greater brilliance than was and entering the Vicarage Cottage, in custody. South Eastern Gazette necessary for the public safety at Lynsted, on Wednesday, with on 13th July 1915 Oare on various dates. intent to steal the goods and The Bench fined Simmons, chattels of Mabel Mitchell, a "A WATERY CASE. Clara Venner, Hudson, and Brown 5s. school teacher, residing there. It Jones, of West End, Lynsted, was each, Beesley 7s.6d., and Metcalfe appeared that the male prisoner summoned for assaulting Slinea 10s. was seen in the front room, and Lyons at Lynsted, on November The Chairman said that cyclists Mrs. Mitchell afterwards found a 12th. using acetylene lamps must shade work-box turned out, but she did Complainant, who lives two doors the upper part, and in future cases not miss anything. When arrested away from defendant, stated that the fines would have to be the man said he went to ask for she had to sweep some water away increased. some water, but getting no answer in the yard when defendant threw a William Wilshire, attached to the he opened the door (which was not pail of water over her. She also National Reserves, and one of the locked) and walked in; he did not cracked her on the head with a pail main gate guard at the Cotton break in. There was no evidence of causing blood to flow. She Powder Works, was fined 10s for the woman having entered the (witness) then threw some water riding a bicycle without a light at house, and she was discharge, over the defendant. Oare on October 26th. He said he while the Bench gave the man the Annie Jones, a little girl, was not in a position to pay the benefit of the doubt. He was then corroborated. fine as being a non-efficient re-arrested, however, and charged Defendant stated that complainant soldier he only got 2s. a week. The on his own confession with being swept the water into her doorway, Bench allowed him 21 days to find an absentee from the R.G.A. at and she emptied a pail of water the money. Dover. He was ordered to be down the bricks as there was Thomas Martin, 37 South Road, detained until an escort arrived. nothing but mud and ashes. Faversham, was fined 5s. for South Eastern Gazette on 6th July Defendant then threw some water riding a cycle without a red rear 1915 over her, and she threw a pail at light at Oare on October 28. her, but it did not touch her. Whitstable Times and Herne Bay Herald on 27th November 1915.

LYNSTED PARISH COUNCIL several local men who emigrated ARGUES OF CHILD LABOUR to Canada in search of a better life. Remembrance ON FARMS. Taken from Lynsted Their parents were John and Parish Council Minutes of 18th Elizabeth Jane Sattin, Coalyard Sidney Frances KITE October 1915: Proposed by Rev Clerk for the County Council, (Doddington) T J Sewell, seconded Mr T L living in Greenstreet (Lynsted Ackerman, the Council resolved - Parish side). Henry BURLEY "That the Lynsted Parish Council Elizabeth Ridley's brother, Ernest (Luddenham) is of opinion that in view of the Ridley, lost his life three weeks extreme scarcity of labour in this later on 20th April. Charles Edward HIGGINS district, children of more than 12 (Teynham) years of age, who have bona fide VICARAGE IS COLD AND employment suited to their DAMP.... "RESIGNATION OF William James PILE strength & capability should not be THE RECTOR OF (Teynham) prosecuted for non-attendance at LUDDENHAM. The Rev. S. school." - this resolution was Faithorne Green, Rector of Ernest RIDLEY forwarded to the Faversham Luddenham, is resigning the (Teynham) School Attendance Committee. living after a stay of little more than a year, and leaves at the end George Abraham HALL CHILDREN ON FARMS of the present month. "At the Canterbury Farmers’ Club He was inducted to the living from (Teynham) and East Kent Chamber of which the Rev. Barrington S. Agriculture ...... an interesting Wright retired in the previous Leonard TERRY debate took place on the question March on August 9th, 1914, prior (Teynham) whether facilities should be given to which he had been Rector of for boys of twelve years and Charlton, Dover, since 1889. Stephen CHAMP upwards to work on farms during The rectory house at Luddenham (Teynham) the war ... So many of the younger is very old, and the fact that the men had been called up to the ground about it is water-logged Arthur Harold HUGHES Colours that there was makes it an undesirable place of (Lynsted) undoubtedly a shortage of labour, residence. and with the present prices of When Mr. Green came to the Frederick Percy food, etc., the money earned would parish the erection of a new CARLTON (Lynsted) be very useful to the families of rectory was mooted and settled, labouring people. the Ecclesiastical Commissioners Thomas GOODWIN Mr. J.D. Maxted advocated that promising a grant of £1,500 (Oare) similar facilities should be asked towards the cost. The war, for in the case of girls, whose however, has put the project out of Percy William services in hop training and fruit the question, owing to the greatly CROWHURST (Oare) picking were, if anything, more increased cost which would be useful than those of the boys. involved, and feeling that he James LUCAS (Teynham) Their schooling would only be cannot face another winter in the interfered with during the period old house, Mr. Green has tendered Percy FORSTER of the war." Folkestone, Hythe, his resignation to the Lord Sandgate & Cheriton Herald - Chancellor, who has the patronage (Doddington) 23rd January of the living." Whitstable Times and Herne Bay Herald on 30th Harry Victor HIGGINS LOVE AND ANGUISH October 1915. (Doddington) MARRIAGE on 3rd April 1915: SATTIN - RIDLEY "GREENSTREET- THINKING Malcolm Philip DALTON George Lovett Sattin (b 1891; OF "THE BOYS" – Will the (Lynsted) parents John Sattin) married residents of Lynsted and Teynham, Elizabeth Ridley (b 1878; parents who have relatives in the Army or Frederick GODFREY George Ridley) in Lynsted. Navy, give their names and (Lynsted) Two years later, almost to the day, numbers to Mr. H.A.J. Peasnall, his brother John Lovett Sattin [7th "The Pharmacy", Greenstreet, so Walter W R SEARS Battalion - Canadian Infantry] was that a Christmas greeting may be (Newnham) killed at the Front. John Lovett forwarded to them?" The East Sattin, married in 1907, was one of Kent Gazette 20th November