Local

National

International

              Sept 1914

29 – 4 Sept

Poor Children’s Treat

1,000 children were present at the event organised by the Cinderella Club in conjunction with the Fresh Air Fund. They played games and were provided with tea and cakes.

Casualties of Mons

Names of those killed or wounded in Mons were printed in the newspapers. They list the first known Bradfordian to be killed in battle as Captain and Adjutant Charles Harris Ackroyd.

5 - 11 Sept

Citizen’s Army League (CAL)

The CAL a civilian organisation was formed to stimulate recruiting and clothe, equip, feed, house, train and administer an infantry battalion.

Telegraph War Fund

The Bradford Daily Telegraph established a War Fund, to encourage donations they proposed to present collectors who raise £5 with a Certificate of Honour. The names of those presented with the certificate were published in the paper.

Thornbury Camp

Army Service Corps set up a training camp behind the Thornbury Tramway Depot.

Battle of Marne

First Battle of Marne started

on the western front - Paris is

saved by French and British

troops and trench warfare is

started

12 -18 Sept

Work for Unemployed Women

A scheme for providing work for unemployed women  in Bradford is to be submitted for approval to the Central Advisory Committee on Women’s Employment authorised by the Queen.

War Relief Fund

The Lord Mayor’s War Relief Fund has reached £20,000

Bradford Pals

The 1,099 men of the Bradford Pals Service Battalion paraded through the city followed by members of the Boys Brigade and Boy Scouts.

19-25 Sept

Bradford Kursaal

Bradford Central Baths annexe opened. “Replying to criticism on the name Kursaal chosen by the committee Alderman Trotter said that he thought they could not have thought of a better or more suitable name…It might be German, but, although it was hoped to beat the Germans on the field, he did not think it was intended to crush out the language”

Holden’s Mill Shelled at Rheims

Yorkshire girls working at the mill were hiding from the shells in the darkened rooms of the works which were built by Bradford men in 1895. Many of the workers were descendants of those who went to work there when it first opened with few Bradfordians going to work there in recent years.

Military Headquarters

Bradford’s military headquarters are not at the Manningham Lane Skating Rink.

First British air raid bombs

Germany Zeppelin bases at Cologne and Düsseldorf