All persons having any claims against the Estate of the late CAPTAIN ALASTAIR GRANT GWYER, late 6th Dragoon Guards (Carabineers) and of the Orchards, Radway, Warwickshire, are requested to send particulars of the same to me, the undersigned, before November 30th inst.
J. CRAWFORD WOOD
Alkerton House, Banbury
November 3rd, 1914
Banbury Guardian, November 1914
Holbech William Hugh, of Farnborough Hall, co. Warwick, Lieut, 2nd Battn, Scots Guards, elder son of the late Lieut.-Col, Walter Henry Holbech,Kings Royal Rifles and one of H.M,’s Hon. Corps of Gentlemen at Arms (who served in Red River Expedition, 1870, was Brigade Major, Egyptian Campaign, 1882, and was mentioned in Despatches and died v.p. 6th March 1901) by his wife Mary Caroline (The Grange, Farnborough, Banbury) widow of Lieut.-Col. Sir George Clay, 3rd Bart., and 4th dau. of Sir John Walrond Walrond, 1st Bart.; b Murray Bay, Canada, 18th August 1882; educ. Eton and Sandhurst; suc. his grandfather in family property, 20 March 1901; gazetted 2nd Lieut., 2nd Scots Guards, 3rd April, 1902, and promoted Lieut. 7March 1904; retired 20 February 1907; and passed into the Reserve of Officers; joined the 3rd Scots Guards on the outbreak of war in August 1914, transferred to his old Battn.; the 2nd, 2nd Oct., and went to France with it as part of the Seventh division two days later; reached the firing line on the 18th, took part in the first Battle of Ypres; was severely wounded at Kruseid on the night of 25th, and died in the Herbert Hospital, Woolwich 1st November 1914. unm. Col. Bolton wrote:” From the time Willie joined us at Southampton until he was mortally wounded, he was one of the most cheery, unselfish, capable and keenest of officers in my Battn. we all deplore his loss more than I can say. I look back on both him and Cottrell Dormer as two of the best officers in every way.” Major Cator wrote: “He defended his trench all night t Kruseid when the Germans got through our line. He and Capt. Payntor had the Germans all around them and defended their trenches most gallantly-I only wish I could tell you more; in him we have lost a gallant soldier and a great friend.”
De Ruvigny’s Roll of Honour 1914-1919
Sixty-Eight Millions in Twelve Weeks
The national expenditure last week was £8,310,115, bringing the total since the end of March to £174, 611,468 as against £102,670,518 in the corresponding period of last year. In the second week of September the expenditure was £7,261,000, in the third week nearly £10,000,000, and in the fourth week about £15,000,000. In the first full week of October the total had risen to £20,300,000, but in the second week it dropped to £12,196,352. Now there is a further decline of nearly £4,000,000, making the expenditure less than half of what, through exceptional circumstances, it was in a recent week. The expenditure to date exceeds the income by nearly £86,000,000, but compared with last year’s expenditure – which is the real criterion – the increase becomes a little under £72,000,000. The fall in the receipts has only been £3,646,831, which may be regarded as very remarkable. The cost of the war up to last week, including money which may have been expended on the national sugar supply and some other large items which rose out of the war, may be roughly estimated at about £68,000,000 for a period of a little under twelve weeks.
Banbury Guardian, November 1914
Lady Lowther to Hunt the Pytchley
Major Sir Charles Lowther, the master of the Pytchley, who expects shortly to go with his regiment, the Northamptonshire Yeomanry, to the front, had sufficiently recovered from his recent operation for appendicitis to be present at the luncheon of the Northamptonshire Agricultural Society on Thursday, at which he made an interesting speech. He said he had that morning received a letter from General Gough, on of the cavalry leaders at the front, in which he said:
For goodness sake, keep foxhunting going whilst we are away at the front.
Similar appeals had reached him from other well-known officers and followers of the hunt, who were anxious that foxhunting should not suffer, so that when the war was over they would be able to come back and enjoy sport over the Pytchley preserves. He appealed to the farmers to co-operate in keeping up the hunt, and to give every assistance to Lady Lowther, who would carry on the hunt in his absence. He reminded his hearers that foxhunting had proved an invaluable national asset at this crisis, because where on earth the Army authorities would have been in their search for good cavalry horses if they had not had the hunting stables to draw upon he did not know. Thousands of horses had been taken from the stables of hunting men, who had been only too pleased to render help in this respect. In conclusion, Sir Charles said that he was proud to be associated with the Northamptonshire Yeomanry, which was to have the distinction to be one of the first of the Territorial Forces to be called up for active service.
Banbury Guardian, November 1914
German naval forces led by Vice Admiral Graf Maximillian Von Spee defeat a British Royal Navy Squadron commanded by Rear Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock off the coast of central Chile near the city of Coronel. One thousand six hundred officers and men perished including Cradock.