Newspaper Reports 1900s

1914 - Deal Walmer and Sandwich Mercury, 26 September

The Hon Cuthbert James (late Captain East Surrey Regiment), son of Lord Northbourne, has been appointed Captain in Kitchener's Army (Infantry Division). It will be remembered he volunteered for the front as soon as war was declared.

[Cuthbert James, 1872-1930]

1915 - Dover Express, 22 January

CAPT. JACKSON RETURNS TO FRONT. -

Captain C. B. Jackson, 2nd Battalion York and Lancaster Regiment, son of Mrs. Lawrence Jackson, of Updown House, Eastry, who was wounded near Armentieres, on October 22nd, has sufficiently recovered to return to the Front as Aide-de-Camp to his uncle, General Sir Herbert Plumer, K.C.B., in command of the 5th Army Corps.

[Sir Herbert Charles Onslow Plumer 1857-1932]

1944 - Deal Walmer Sandwich and East Kent Mercury, 11 November

Mr. and Mrs. Fenney's son Pte. Austin Fenney is home from Switzerland, to which country he escaped after the fall of Italy, where he had been a prisoner of war nearly two years.

JACKSON Captain C. B. - 22 Jan. 1915
JAMES Cuthbert - 26 Sept. 1914
NORTHBOURNE Lord - 26 Sept. 1914
PLUMER General Sir Herbert K.C.B. - 22 Jan. 1915