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

Sanitary and Building Plans Committee, Evesham Rural District Council

The Committee recommended acceding to the request of the Badsey Parish Council for sanction to erect a drinking trough on the site of the old village pump, and to allow a water service to the fountain provided that the Council appointed someone to see that the water was not wasted.

BADSEY SAPPER KILLED IN FRANCE

Nearly five months after he had enlisted for service with the Royal Engineers, Sapper Denis Hartwell, youngest son of Mr & Mrs J Hartwell, Brewers Lane, Badsey, has been killed accidentally in France.  His parents were notified on Wednesday.

Sapper Hartwell, who was 20 years of age, volunteered in October and was called for service in January this year.

TRAGEDY AFTER DANCE – NAVY MAN DROWNED IN SHIP CANAL

Navy Gunner Walter Edmund Warmington, aged 19, whose home is at Badsey, Evesham, fell into the Ship Canal early on Tuesday morning and was drowned.  He was returning from a dance in Ellesmere Port with another seaman, who heard him fall into the water, but was unable to locate him owing to the darkness.  Warmington’s body was recovered on Tuesday afternoon.

BADSEY SOLDIER’S DEATH

Lance Corporal George Alfred Hall, second son of Mrs A C Hall and the late Mr Hall of No 1 Silk Mills, Badsey, has received fatal injuries while serving with his unit in the West of England.

He had been a member of the Territorial Army for the past five years.  He leaves a widow, with whom much sympathy is felt.

The funeral takes place at Badsey today (Friday) at 3.30 pm.

A further report about the funeral appeared in The Evesham Standard of Saturday 28 September 1940:

THE LATE MRS G L HALL

The death was reported on Thursday of Mrs Gladys Lilian Hall, daughter of Mr & Mrs George Taylor of 95 Rynal Place, Evesham.  Mrs Hall had been in failing health for a number of years and it was because of this that she had given up her work at Willmott’s Ltd, Evesham, where she was a popular employee.  Ten years ago she married Mr George Alfred Hall, son of Mrs and the late Mr Maurice Hall of Badsey.  Mr Hall was a victim of an air raid in September 1940.