Farnborough Rural District Council

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An abstract of accounts of the receipts and payments of the Rural District Council for the above-named Rural District for the half-year ending 30^th September 1914.

RECEIPTS	£.	s.	d.
Balance in hand at commencement of half year	105	17	7
From Overseers in respect of general expenses	197	12	6
Grant under Agricultural Rates Act 1895	102	13	9
	406	3	10
PAYMENTS	£.	s.	d.
Maintenance of District Roads	116	1	4
Salaries (Highways)	15	0	0
Fees for Lists of Births and Deaths	1	3	8
Salaries of Officers (Public Health)	39	10	0
Establishment Charges	7	3	10
Election Expenses	1	19	0
Compensation to late Clerk to the late Kineton Highway Board	3	19	10
Balance in hand at end of half-year	221	6	2
	406	3	10

Dated this 6th day of January 1915

Arthur Fairfax – Clerk to the said Council

Banbury Guardian January 1915

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Newsflash!

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The French troops continue their advance in Alsace, and take Steinbach after severe fighting, which necessitates taking the town quarter by quarter with hand-to-hand encounters.

The Russians take possession of the Austrian province of Bukowina.

Banbury Guardian January 1915

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Diary Entry Pte W Tapp Royal Warwickshire Regiment

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January 1^st 1915

We return to the trenches after 3 days rest, the war has started again.

It is still raining, our dug out leaks, keeps dropping in, my blanket is wringing wet weighs three times as heavy and has got to be carried besides an oil sheet, top coat, fur coat, cooking utensils, they begin to get heavy after doing about 8 miles, we are having 5 days in trenches and 3 out, much better than 6 in and 2 out as we do get 2 clear days rest, I hear the piggeries where we stayed has been shelled killing 17 of the kilties.

Diary of Private W Tapp, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, November 1914- January 1915

Imperial war Museum Archives

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