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December 2020                                                                       December 2020

       We hope you have some happy time over Christmas and know that we will be             killed in the same action in Gallipoli in  August 1916. He was 21 years old at the
       back in our Jubilee year providing all the things that were such a joy in people’s   time of his death.
       lives as soon as it is safe to do so,
                                                                                            William Rowland was born in Spetisbury and lived in West Street, Bere Regis. He
                                                                                            was killed in action during the first poison gas attack on Allied Forces on 26 April

       Gifts of Hope                                                                        1915 while serving with the Royal Fusiliers near Ypres.  He was 20 years old.
                                                                                            Henry Stickley was born in Bere Regis and lived at Woodbury Hill. He served with
       The Pop In Place are delivering a gift of hope to those living alone in the Parish if
       we have inadvertently missed someone please do email popinplace@gmail.com            the Coldstream Guards and was killed in action on 9 October 1918, aged 26, a
       and let me know.                                                                     month before the end of the war.
                                                                                            His cousin, Harry Stickley, was born in Bere Regis and lived at Doddings where he
       Thank you to Bere Regis School and the Scouts who have been busy making art
       work and cards to include in these special parcels                                   was a dairy boy at the age of 15. He was killed in action while serving with the
                                                                                            Welsh Guards. He was 31 years old.
       We have had funding from Dorset Life Magazine the Bemisters Trust and the Staff
       at the Dr’s Surgery also Maria Critchell and the CO-OP at Sandford we are very       Herbert  Trevett,  believed  to  be  his  step-brother,  Herbert  Diffey,  served  with  the
       grateful to them all.                                                                Canadian  Forces.  He  was  killed  on  6  June  1916,  the  same  day  as  Frederick
                                                                                            Johnson, at Hooge near Ypres.    He was 29 years old.

                                                                                            Arthur  William  White  was  born  in  Bere  Regis  and  served  with  the  5   Battalion
                                                                                                                                                         th
       Dorset Life
                                                                                            Dorsetshire Regiment. He was killed on 17 September 1916 during the Battle of the
       I was asked by Dorset Life Magazine to write a feature on Bere Regis  if you are     Somme.
       interested this will appear in the December Issue.
                                                                                            Harold Whiteside was one of two sons of the Headmaster of Rye Hill School. He
       Please Check out Pop In Place Website popinplace.org  where I will be posting all    served in the Royal Air Force Reserve and was killed on the 5 March 1943.
       the up to date info about the group.
                                                                                            His brother, Leslie Whiteside, also served in the Royal Air Force Reserve and was
                                            Alison Bennett  Telephone  01929 472023         killed flying over Germany on 22 April 1945, just before the end of the war.
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