PATRIOTIC BADSEY FAMILY

BADSEY MAN KILLED

BADSEY SOLDIER KILLED

BADSEY AND THE WAR

We extract the following from the Badsey Parish Magazine:

CAPTAIN C E SLADDEN MENTIONED IN DESPATCHES

Among the officers, warrant officers, and non-commissioned officers and men whose services have been brought to notice by Lieut.-General Sir Stanley Maude K.C.B., Commander-in-Chief, Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force, as deserving of special mention, appears the name of Captain (acting Major) C E Sladden, youngest son of Mr Julius Sladden, of Badsey and Evesham. Captain Sladden was wounded in Gallipoli in August. 1915, and again the day before the British entered Baghdad.

BADSEY MAN MISSING

PRIVATE R COLE KILLED

BADSEY SOLDIER WOUNDED

Mr Valentine Knight, of Badsey, has received information that his son, Private A O Knight, is dangerously ill in No 12 General Hospital, Rouen, suffering from gunshot wound in the head.

2nd LIEUTENANT H GAUKROGER KILLED

MAJOR CYRIL SLADDEN BACK  ON DUTY

We are glad to learn that the wound which Major Cyril E. Sladden, of the Worcestershire Regt., son of Mr Julius Sladden, of Badsey, received on March 10, the day before Baghdad fell, was only slight. Major Sladden was in hospital for a short time, but is now back on duty. This is the third time Major Sladden has been wounded in the present war, the first time being in Galilipoli, and the second time in the abortive operations  to relieve Kut.