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SPLENDID OFFER FROM ELLESMERE.
The members of the Ellesmere troop of Yeomanry assembled at the Town Hall yesterday, to consider the feeling of the troop as to enlistment for active service. Colonel Baldock, Lord Kenyon, and a large number of the inhabitants were present, and Colonel Foster sent a cheque for £300 to provide a good outfit for the men. No less than 33 of the rank and file, and all the officers, volunteered to go to South Africa.
(The Montgomery County Times, Saturday 23rd December 1899)
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BOWLING GREEN. - A general meeting of the members of the Bowling Green Club was held at the Bridgewater Hotel on Wednesday, to elect a Mayor for the present season in place of Mr. A. Bate, who is serving with the Imperial Yeomanry Cavalry in South Africa.
(The Montgomery County Times, Saturday 14th April 1900)
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The Rev. Reginald Berviss Thompson is gazetted captain, the Rev. Arthur William Davies lieutenant, and William Wallace Henderson, gentleman, lieut. in the Ellesmere College Cadet Corps, attached to the 2nd V.B. King's Shropshire Light Infantry.
(Towyn-on-Sea and Merioneth County Times, Thursday 7th March 1901)
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Lieutenant W. R. K. Mainwaring, who went out to South Africa with the Denbighshire Imperial Yeomanry upwards of twelve months ago, and was dangerously wounded at Abraham's Kraal, had a splendid welcome on his return home to Ellesmere on Thursday last. The town was gay with bunting, and, escorted by a troop of the Shropshire Yeomanry and mounted tenantry, his carriage was towed to Oteley, the family seat, where he was presented with an illuminated address. Afterwards the squire of Oteley, Mr. C. F. K. Mainwaring, entertained the tenantry and subscribers.
(Llandudno Advertiser, Friday 29th March 1901)
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ELLESMERE WAR MEMORIAL. - Ellesmere was en fete on Friday night, when Colonel the Hon. George Ormsby-Gore, Parliamentary representative for Oswestry, unveiled a handsome bronze memorial to perpetuate the gallantry of 19 local soldiers who fought in the South African war. The vicinity of the Town Hall, where the memorial was unveiled, was gaily decorated and illuminated, the immense crowd being controlled by a squadron of the Shropshire Yeomanry and Ellesmere Volunteers. - Colonel Gore, in performing the unveiling ceremony, trusted that the tablet would serve as a lasting tribute to the valour and patriotism of Ellesmere's heroes. Future generations might admire those soldiers, and their example might inspire others with similar patriotism when Britain desired military assistance. Colonel Gore then unveiled the tablet amid unbounded enthusiasm, the local band meanwhile playing the National Anthem. Subsequently a banquet was given at the Bridgwater Hotel, where the distinguished company foregathered, and the proceedings continued until a late hour.
(Cheshire Observer, Saturday 21st November 1903)
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The members of the Ellesmere troop of Yeomanry assembled at the Town Hall yesterday, to consider the feeling of the troop as to enlistment for active service. Colonel Baldock, Lord Kenyon, and a large number of the inhabitants were present, and Colonel Foster sent a cheque for £300 to provide a good outfit for the men. No less than 33 of the rank and file, and all the officers, volunteered to go to South Africa.
(The Montgomery County Times, Saturday 23rd December 1899)
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BOWLING GREEN. - A general meeting of the members of the Bowling Green Club was held at the Bridgewater Hotel on Wednesday, to elect a Mayor for the present season in place of Mr. A. Bate, who is serving with the Imperial Yeomanry Cavalry in South Africa.
(The Montgomery County Times, Saturday 14th April 1900)
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The Rev. Reginald Berviss Thompson is gazetted captain, the Rev. Arthur William Davies lieutenant, and William Wallace Henderson, gentleman, lieut. in the Ellesmere College Cadet Corps, attached to the 2nd V.B. King's Shropshire Light Infantry.
(Towyn-on-Sea and Merioneth County Times, Thursday 7th March 1901)
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Welcome Home.
Lieutenant W. R. K. Mainwaring, who went out to South Africa with the Denbighshire Imperial Yeomanry upwards of twelve months ago, and was dangerously wounded at Abraham's Kraal, had a splendid welcome on his return home to Ellesmere on Thursday last. The town was gay with bunting, and, escorted by a troop of the Shropshire Yeomanry and mounted tenantry, his carriage was towed to Oteley, the family seat, where he was presented with an illuminated address. Afterwards the squire of Oteley, Mr. C. F. K. Mainwaring, entertained the tenantry and subscribers.
(Llandudno Advertiser, Friday 29th March 1901)
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ELLESMERE WAR MEMORIAL. - Ellesmere was en fete on Friday night, when Colonel the Hon. George Ormsby-Gore, Parliamentary representative for Oswestry, unveiled a handsome bronze memorial to perpetuate the gallantry of 19 local soldiers who fought in the South African war. The vicinity of the Town Hall, where the memorial was unveiled, was gaily decorated and illuminated, the immense crowd being controlled by a squadron of the Shropshire Yeomanry and Ellesmere Volunteers. - Colonel Gore, in performing the unveiling ceremony, trusted that the tablet would serve as a lasting tribute to the valour and patriotism of Ellesmere's heroes. Future generations might admire those soldiers, and their example might inspire others with similar patriotism when Britain desired military assistance. Colonel Gore then unveiled the tablet amid unbounded enthusiasm, the local band meanwhile playing the National Anthem. Subsequently a banquet was given at the Bridgwater Hotel, where the distinguished company foregathered, and the proceedings continued until a late hour.
(Cheshire Observer, Saturday 21st November 1903)
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