Badsey roused by pig-roast team

A party of men set out from Badsey in the small hours of Tuesday to collect a carcase from Campden for the pig roast, and they let the whole village know when they got back.

“We toured the village with the pig in the back of a lorry at around 6.45 a.m. sounding bells and hunting – horns, said Mr D. Caswell, a member of the organising committee. “We wanted to let people know that things were getting under way.”

HAMPTON WEDDING – Miss Iris Smith and Pte C W Haines

The wedding was solemnised at St Andrew’s Church, Hampton, on Saturday, of Miss Iris Annie Smith, youngest daughter of Mr & Mrs G A Smith of 4 Church Road, Hampton, and Private Charles William Haines, only son of Mr & Mrs Albert George Haines of 7 Synehurst Avenue, Badsey.

DUNKIRK HERO WEDS AT BRETFORTON

Miss Ada Maud Smith and Mr J W F Hartwell

A pretty wedding took place at St Leonard’s Church, Bretforton last Saturday, the contracting parties being Miss Ada Maud Smith, eldest daughter of Mr & Mrs George A Smith of Goldthorne, Weston Road, Bretforton, and Mr John William Frederick Hartwell, second son of Mr & Mrs John Hartwell of Brewers Lane, Badsey.

EVESHAM MAN WOUNDED

Mrs H Jinks, of 14 Waterside, Evesham, has received official notification from the War Office that her son by a first marriage, Corporal Norman Hall, was wounded while on active service last month.

Corporal Hall, who is 21, was born at Badsey and he attended Cleeve Prior C of E School.  He was also a member of the choir at Cleeve Prior Church.  When quite a small boy he made up his mind to embark on a military career and, two years before the war, he joined the 9th Lancers.

RESCUED UNCLE AT DUNKIRK – Now Both are Serving in Italy

DUNKRIK VETERAN’S DEATH

He could write Lord’s Prayer on Postage Stamp – Death of Mr M Taylor