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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. |
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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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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First
British air raid bombs Germany
Zeppelin bases at Cologne and Düsseldorf |
