Doncaster Times Issue 4 - March 2018

DONCASTER
TIMES
ISSUE 4: MARCH 2018
AT HOME,
AT WAR

Contents
Editorial and subscription 2
Daughters of Doncaster - ‘Lady Bountiful’: 3
Julia Warde-Aldam
Queen’s Own Yorkshire Dragoons Memorial Project 6
update and appeal
Wartime School Days part 2 8
Spotlight- Herbert John Darley 11
Clarence Jepson: Artist and Soldier 12
The Language of the Trenches 16
Did you know? 19
Cricket in Doncaster during the Great War 20
Yorkshire Naturalists’ at War: 22
Capt. Herbert Vincent Corbett

DONCASTER TIMES
AT HOME, AT WAR
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ISSUE 4: MARCH 2018
Uncover the past that shaped our future
www.doncaster1914-18.org.uk
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-------------------------- Editorial --------------------------
Welcome to the fourth edition of
Doncaster Times. Once again
we tell the story of a ‘Daughter
of Doncaster’. Julia Warde-Aldam of
Hooton Pagnell Hall played a role in the
war effort both at home where she cared
for wounded soldiers and by sending
war comforts to soldiers on the Front.
Lynsey Slater shows how the estate
records at Doncaster Archives and the
local newspapers at Doncaster Local
Studies helped to uncovered Julia’s story.
We have our regular update on the HLF funded
project, carried out by the Doncaster and
District Heritage Association (DDHA). Since
the restoration of the Queen’s Own Yorkshire
Dragoons memorial has been completed and
the names of the officers and soldiers have been
revealed, the research into their lives and war
records is now able to take place and a service of
re-dedication is planned for October this year.
Trench warfare was a large part of the First World
War with dreadful living conditions for the men
involved. Life in the trenches brought about new
diseases and conditions never known before. The
First World War saw the introduction of many new
words and phrases, such as Trench Fever and
Trench Foot; these were just some of the words
which became part of the English language.
In this edition our ‘spotlight’ is on a Conisbrough
soldier, Herbert John Darley, who served in the
King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry and his story
as a POW is part of ‘The Road to Victory’ exhibition
at Doncaster Museum. Herbert survived the war
but many didn’t. When a soldier is recorded as
dying at a young age it often makes us think about
what they might have achieved in their lives if
they had lived. Capt. Herbert Vincent Corbett and
Pte. Clarence Jepson died at 25 and 21 years old
respectively and their deaths saw the loss of a
talented young scientist and of a budding artist.
We look at life at home and, even with the
strictures of wartime, some leisure pursuits,
such as cricket, were still very much in evidence.
We conclude our look at the school log books,
held at Doncaster Archives, which tell how the
pupils got involved in fundraising for the war
effort. The children were let out of school to
see ‘Egbert’ the tank when it came to Doncaster
Market Place as part of a national fundraising
initiative in April 1918. The wartime school log
books conclude with a look at how the schools
celebrated peace in late 1918 and early 1919.
I’d like to thank all our contributors, Lynsey Slater,
John and Sue Adam, Jean Walker, Liz Astin, Enid
Foster, Philip Scowcroft and Colin Howes. Also
thanks to Jude Holland, Charles Kelham and
Mark Warde-Norbury for their assistance with
the production of Doncaster Times edition 4.
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Daughters of
Doncaster
‘Lady Bountiful’:
Julia Warde-Aldam
When Julia Warde-Aldam died in July 1931,
the Sheffield Independent of 22 July
described her as ‘Lady Bountiful’. Similar
phrases appeared in the articles about her death in
Doncaster papers, describing her as ‘The Lady of
the Manor’ and ‘The Lady of Hooton’. Julia’s death
reverberated around Doncaster and the wider district
through the many organisations and people she
had supported throughout her long life. A stranger
to no one, the Doncaster Chronicle of 24 July 1931
declared that Julia ‘must have opened more bazaars
and fêtes and flower shows than any other local figure
– and always was she at her best in these efforts.’
Julia and nurses at Hooton Pagnell Hall during the First World
War, by kind permission of Mark Warde-Norbury
Sarah Julia Warde was born in 1857, the daughter
of Reverend William Warde of Hooton Pagnell Hall.
After her marriage to William Wright Aldam in 1878,
the couple took on the surname ‘Warde-Aldam’
and split their time between Hooton Pagnell Hall,
William’s estate Frickley Hall, and their other estates
at Healey, Northumberland and Ederline, Argyllshire.
Julia was well known in the local area as a
philanthropist. Perhaps her greatest dedication was
to St Christopher’s Home for Waifs and Strays. The
orphanage particularly struggled during the First World
War. In one letter reproduced in the Sheffield Daily
Telegraph, 2 November 1917, Julia wrote ‘we ask all
our friends, and the friends of little children, to send us
gifts of some sort. Food and housekeeping are very
expensive and difficult during these war days, and yet
the needs of our large family of 30 at St. Christopher’s
Home are just the same as ever, though alas the cost
is more. Please remember that our society has many
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Julia with convalescing soldiers during
the First World War, by kind permission
of Mark Warde-Norbury
soldiers’ orphans under its care.’ Despite the difficulties
in running the Home, her commitment never wavered.
During the First World War, Julia used her excellent
organisational skills and local influence for the good
of the war effort. She opened up her home, Hooton
Pagnell Hall, as a convalescent hospital for wounded
soldiers as well as administering two war working
parties and a Prisoner of War fund! Julia served at
Hooton Pagnell as the Commandant, Matron and
General Administrator, where soldiers from all over the
world were treated for a variety of ailments including
gunshot wounds, fevers and jaundice. Julia maintained
close friendships with many of the soldiers after they
left the hospital, and wrote to their families during their
time recovering. Some of her letters were delivered to
the soldiers at the Front or their homes after they had
been invalided out of the Army. Lillian Burgin, from New
South Wales, Australia, was one of Julia’s many pen
pals. Lillian had been told about Hooton Pagnell Hall,
and about Julia, through her husband’s letters. In them,
he described Hooton Pagnell as his ‘English home.’
Lillian’s husband had sent her photographs of the Hall
and the nurses during his recovery. He was sent back
into the front lines and was killed in action. Lillian wrote
to Julia to let her know the sad news. Julia’s work at
the hospital didn’t go unnoticed. She was awarded the
Royal Red Cross 2nd Class and an MBE in recognition
of her service during the war. Later she became an
Associate of the Royal Red Cross and made a Lady
of Grace of the Order of St John of Jerusalem.
As well as being a dedicated community organiser,
Julia was a devoted mother to her two sons William St
Andrew and Ralph. When William St Andrew Warde-
Aldam was seriously wounded in 1914, soon after
he arrived at the Front, Julia went to be with him in
hospital in London. When the circumstances of his
injuries were reported in the Doncaster Chronicle 23
December 1914, the article stated that to Doncaster
people, ‘the name of Warde-Aldam is a household
word’. Julia also had a keen interest in politics, serving
as the president of the Doncaster and Don Valley
Women’s Conservative Association for many years.
She instilled this interest in politics into her sons, who
both stood as Conservative candidates in elections
and also continued her charitable work. After the
death of her husband, William, Julia took on the
support of the Yorkshire Institution for the Deaf, and
Ralph in turn continued to support it after her death.
In July 1931, Julia entertained over 500 elderly
residents from Mexborough at the Hall for a day
out. She had a seizure and died two days later.
She had been suffering from a long illness for
some time, which had kept her from many of her
organisations and commitments. The Chronicle
of July 24 described this as apt, stating ‘It seemed
in keeping that her last semi-public appearance
should have been in the role of hostess – a role
she played with so much engaging sweetness.’
Julia’s funeral was held at the All Saints Church in
Hooton Pagnell, which proved far too small for the large
amount of people who came to pay their last respects.
Representatives from many local organisations that
she had supported throughout her life were present.
These included the Doncaster Infirmary, Doncaster
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Conservative Association, Doncaster Y.M.C.A.,
Doncaster Boy Scouts and Girl Guides, St Christopher’s
Home, Yorkshire School for the Deaf, Brodsworth
Main Ambulance, Women’s Luncheon Club, South
Elmsall British Legion, the Warde-Aldam Cottage
Hospital, Mexborough Old Folks’ Treat Committee and
the Mexborough Rotary Club. Among the mourners
were families from the surrounding country estates,
including her close friend Lord Halifax, of Hickleton
Hall, Mr and Mrs Cooke-Yarborough of Wadworth Hall
and Mr and Mrs Skipwith of Loversall Hall. Nurses
who had served with Julia at Hooton during the war
attended, alongside the Master and the Secretary of
the Badsworth Hunt. Eight estate workers carried the
coffin, six from Hooton Pagnell, one from Frickley
and one from Healey. Julia is buried in the Hooton
Pagnell Churchyard alongside other members of
the Warde-Aldam family and their descendants.
Julia had a lifelong commitment to the improvement
of Doncaster. The Doncaster Gazette described
in their ‘Woman’s World’ section on 24 July
1931 that the grief felt covered the whole of
the wider Doncaster district. Describing Julia
as ‘Beloved of All’, it focuses, appropriately, on
her contribution to women’s organisations.
‘Doncaster and district has lost
a gracious lady. Many women’s
organisations have lost a leader
whose enthusiasm never flagged,
who was ever a source of inspiration
and who showed others how to
work in charity’s sweet name.’
You can find out more about Julia in an exhibition
exploring the fortunes of the borough’s country houses
‘Estate of War: Doncaster’s Country Houses 1914-18’.
The exhibition is currently open at Cusworth Hall.
Julia at Hooton Pagnell Hall during the First World War,
by kind permission of Mark Warde-Norbury
See Julia’s original objects and discover how the First
World War changed the lives of those upstairs and
downstairs in Doncaster’s country houses.
Lynsey Slater
Project Researcher Doncaster 1914-18
For more information see:
www.doncaster1914-18.org.uk
If you have a family story from the First World War to share, please visit
www.doncaster1914-18.org.uk
or contact the Doncaster 1914-18 project team at:
info@doncaster1914-18.org.uk
You can also browse many stories about local people and places on
the website, and find out more about a relative or place near you.
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The Queen’s Own
Yorkshire Dragoons
Memorial Project
Update and Appeal
In the last project update the restoration work
was reaching completion. While waiting for
the names on the memorial to be revealed
researchers were busy discovering that the
Regimental Guidon was in storage at Doncaster
Museum together with a the full dress uniform
of Captain L.P. Clay, the first officer to be named
on the memorial. Other artefacts located in the
Museum to date include the ceremonial helmet
of Captain Clay and a photograph album, which
was donated by Lady Mabel Smith, containing
numerous photographs of the officers and
men of the Dragoons during the First World
War. Hopefully the album will help to provide
images of some of those researched and
whose names are listed on the memorial.
Once the restoration of the memorial was completed
and the men named could be identified, work began
researching and compiling personal biographies
of the 45 officers and men who made the ultimate
sacrifice during the conflict. Work on this part of
the project is still ongoing and with the help of the
staff of Doncaster and other local studies libraries,
the staff of the Doncaster 1914-18 project and
the DDHA, volunteer researchers have identified
all but one of the men named (Pt. T. Evans).
Approximately 80% of the biographies are nearing
completion. Each of these biographies include the
place and year of birth, the soldier’s occupation
before service, their place of enlistment, their place
and date of death and where they are buried or
memorialised, together with photographs where
available. Research into 3 of the men named who
transferred to the Royal Flying Corps is being carried
out by members of the local ATC squadron as part
of their Duke of Edinburgh Award scheme work.
Names on the memorial, by kind permission of John Adam
officers too numerous to mention here.
During the autumn of 2017 there have been two
classes of the Doncaster Minster Literacy project
that have used the restoration as a lesson that has
enabled the students to understand how the First
World War affected the people of the U.K. both then
and now, and to use the memorial as an example
of how the conflict is remembered in 2017.
In October two volunteers visited the Yeomanry
Museum in Fulford Barracks York where Capt.
T. Miller showed them their small display. The
volunteers gave Capt. Miller photographs of the
memorial, of some of the men named, and of
officers and men taken during active service.
It is hoped that the descendants of the men
named on the memorial and the officers that
were present at the original service of dedication
can be traced and that they will be able to attend
a re-dedication service which is to be held on
Captain L P Clay’s uniform, by kind permission of John Adam
Running parallel with the research of the men
named on the memorial is research into the
officers that were present at the original service
of dedication held in 1921. These include Major
General the Earl of Scarbrough GBE KCB VD, the
commanding officer Col. W. Mackenzie-Smith
D.S.O., Major E.F.L.Wood (later Lord Halifax)
and Capt. M Shepherd M.C. together with other
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Men named on the Queen’s Own
Yorkshire Dragoons memorial are:
Captain Lionel Pilleau Clay
Lt Frank Alford Kingswell
2nd Lt. William Hepton
2nd Lt. Frederick William Nisbet
2nd Lt. Lindsay Leon de Cram Marsham Rae
2nd Lt. William Moorwood Staniforth
2nd Lt. Gordon Ivor Wilson
SSM George Thomas Moss 3457
Sgt. Arnold Johnson 175027
The memorial after restoration, by kind permission of
John Adam
10 October 2018. Capt. Miller will provide a
military guard of honour for the re-dedication
service. Following the service it is hoped that
there will be a small reception together with
an exhibition of work relative to the project.
If you can help to trace the descendants of the
men named on the memorial please contact
John via the details below.
To date, volunteers have spent over 450 hours
working on the project and if you would like
to get involved please contact John Adam.
John Adam
Chairman of Doncaster and District
Heritage Association
T: 01302 868774
E: johnadam1@talktalk.net
www.doncasterminster.co.uk
The ceremonial helmet of
Captain L.P. Clay, by kind
permission of John Adam
L/Cpl. Ernest Bescoby 175498
L/Cpl. Walter Biddles 175782
L/Cpl. Charles Cartwright 175305
L/Cpl. Harold Reginald Crapper 175301
L/Cpl. Harold Dobson 175220
L/Cpl. Clifford Newton 175284
Pte. Christopher Armitage 3017
Pte. Harry Axup 3839
Pte. Thomas Bagnall 3269
Pte. Seth Bell GS/15708
Pte. Colin Hedley Bishop 2763
Trumpeter Joseph Brearton 175588
Pte. Percy Calvert 175790
Pte. Samuel Dickins 145671
Pte. T Evans
Pte. Ramsden Farrar 3189
Pte. George Ernest Garland 400129 RAMC
Pte. George Gosling 175671
Pte. Charles Greenwood 3786
Pte. Harold Slowen Hibberd 175512
Pte. James Hodgson 3637
Pte. Cecil Swift Jessop 2957
Pte. Horace Mayhew 176175
Pte. Jesse Ogden 175832
Pte. William Parsons 175286
Pte. George Richardson 175667
Pte. Charles Ellis Moorhead Smith 3599
Pte. Stanley Smith 175738
Pte. Albert John Smith 175682
Pte. Fred Tate 175607
Pte. Ernest Taylor 175617
Pte. Tom Taylor 2499
Pte. Bernard Walker 175680
Pte. Albert Walters 3887
Pte. Cecil Weatherley 175295
Pte. James Williams GS/15832
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Wartime
School Days
Part 2
I
n my work as a volunteer with the Doncaster
1914-18 project, I came across the school
log books for Doncaster and its surrounding
area during the First World War. These records
are held at Doncaster Archives and I instantly
realised what a fascinating source of information
they were. This article looks at how the war had a
very diverse effect on the communities across the
borough. Schools in rural areas carried on much
as they had done before the war, with the war
hardly ever mentioned in the log books, whereas
schools in Doncaster centre and its immediate
suburbs were considerably affected by the war.
The Three Rs
Religion played a major role in the school curriculum,
as did needlework for girls and gardening for boys;
this had been taught long before the war but played
an important role during the war years. In 1918 Balby
Girls School knitted 12 pairs mittens, 14 scarves and
12 pairs of socks for soldiers, while the pupils at the
National Parish Infant School made cushions and
pillows for St. George’s Hospital.
Doncaster Gazette Directory & Year Book 1915
(Local Studies collection. L914.2 DON)
The rural school at Frickley with Clayton saw a boy
aged 12 given exemption from school, granted by the
West Riding County Council, for war-time agricultural
employment. The following day another boy took
his place. This may have been on a rota basis so
children did not miss too much schooling. Before the
war, children often missed school to help with the
harvest, pea and potato picking. In 1917 two staff
and 17 girls from Balby Girls School, volunteered
to work on the land during the Easter holidays.
An extract from Stirling Street Junior Boys School logbook for
1914 (Doncaster Archives collection SR20/1/1)
An extract from Beechfield Junior Girls School logbook for 1916
(Doncaster Archives collection SR79/1/2)
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Nurses of the Arnold
Auxiliary Hospital, for
which many schools
raised funds
In 1915 Arksey School acquired half an acre of
land for a garden. Timetables were adapted,
for gardening, especially in good weather, with
permission being given by the government
and the West Riding County Council.
Nature walks were taken on a regular basis to
provide fresh air and exercise. The route taken by
Denaby Main Girls School was through Conisbrough,
Levitt Hagg, and Sprotborough, returning through
the woods to Cadeby and back to Denaby –
quite a ramble! At the request of the Board of
Education, older pupils were asked to collect
horse chestnuts (conkers) to be forwarded for
munition purposes – Britain’s new secret weapon!
Cookery and laundry work classes were held
at the New Technical College for older girls
from a number of schools, although these were
sometimes cancelled owing to lack of staff.
Sports were on the school curriculum with interschool
swimming competitions taking place, when
the baths were not being requisitioned for troops,
as well as cricket matches. School trips to the
museum and cinemas to see patriotic films are
recorded in school logbooks. Visiting lecturers
gave talks on subjects as diverse as different
type of nuts, Shakespeare and Temperance.
Fundraising
Fundraising was a main priority during the war and
even though times were very hard it was amazing
how generous the pupils’ parents were. The items
collected were sent to the troops on the front line
but also went to services for wounded servicemen
at home. Grey Friars Primary School held “A Pound
Collection”, which entailed collecting one pound
in weight of goods for St George’s Hospital for
wounded soldiers, and “yielded much variety from
each child”. Parents of the pupils at Beechfield
Infants School were asked to contribute a penny
each towards a ward for disabled sailors in Queen
Mary’s Star & Garter Home in Richmond. Also in
1916 the school raised £1 10s for the Plum Pudding
Fund, and a card was received from Sir Douglas
Haig, thanking the children. In 1917 Beechfield
Infant School collected a large quantity of fruit,
vegetables and eggs for the Arnold Auxiliary
Hospital while Grey Friars Primary School raised
6 shillings for the YMCA Rest Hut for Soldiers.
In 1915 Denaby Main Infant School made handicrafts
to raise funds to send Christmas boxes to soldiers.
A year later, in 1916, Doncaster National Girls School
collected 31 shillings to provide eggs for the Arnold
VAD Hospital, and 5 shillings-worth of eggs to
Wheatley Military Hospital, and a shilling a week for
the National Egg Collection for the wounded. The
girls also raised 16 shillings for the Overseas Club
fund to provide tobacco for soldiers at the front.
Every school contributed to War Savings Certificates
and in 1917 Auckley School awarded its pupils a
one-day holiday to mark the fact their contributions
had passed £250. In 1918 an address was
given to pupils at Balby Girls School who were
encouraged “to invest all the money they can”. In
1919 Doncaster National Girls School awarded
a prize to the pupil with the most certificates.
Egbert the Tank
By 1918, the cost of the war was taking its toll on
national funds and national fundraising efforts
were stepped up. This year saw a tank moved
around the country as a focal point for fundraising,
to encourage people to invest in war bonds. In
April 1918 ‘Egbert’ the Tank came to Doncaster
and was displayed in the market place. Schools
closed to allow the children to visit the tank,
which caused lots of excitement. The town or
city that raised the most as part of this particular
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Egbert the Tank in Doncaster Market Place during Tank Bank
Week, April 1918. (Local Studies collection)
scheme received Egbert and West Hartlepool
were its proud new owners and ‘Egbert’ could be
viewed there until it was melted down to help with
the war effort during the Second World War.
Holidays were given to celebrate victories during the
war such as the bravery of the West Riding troops
at the Battle of Cambrai. Besides the usual religious
holidays, there were the local ‘Feast Days’, Sunday
School Treats Day, Empire Day, where in 1916 pupils
at Beechfield Infant School, “saluted the flag and
gave 3 hearty cheers for the King and Country”,
whilst Balby Boys School made their own flags! In
1916 for ‘Mayor’s Day’, Balby Girls School had two
days holiday in honour of the election of the Mayor.
Armistice and Peace
When the end of the war finally came in November
1918, some schools could not celebrate Victory as
would be expected. The reason for this being that
many schools had been closed since October due
to the flu epidemic, with some not reopening until
January 1919.
An extra week’s holiday was added to the summer
break in July and August 1919 when the Peace
Celebrations took place. The celebrations took
the form of sports, games and tea parties.
The logbooks reveal that Peace Medals were
presented by the Mayor to all pupils at Christ
Church Girls School and Balby Girls School, while
pupils at Conisbrough Boys School received
the gift of a Peace Mug and Beechfield Infants
were given a gift of Doncaster Butterscotch and
a toy. I’m sure the butterscotch hasn’t survived
but do you know if any of these items still exist
or do you know of any other schools that gave
its pupils objects to commemorate peace?
If so, the Doncaster 1914-18 team would love to hear
from you: Email: info@doncaster1914-18.org.
uk or ring 01302 734293 and ask to speak to
a member of the Doncaster 1914-18 team.
Jean Walker
Doncaster 1914-18 Project Volunteer
Doncaster Wesleyan Girls School 1916
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S p otlight
Herbert John Darley was born in
Conisbrough in 1892. He worked as
a farm labourer and lived at Morley
Place, Conisbrough, with his family.
During the First World War, Herbert served
with the 7th battalion of the King’s Own
Yorkshire Light Infantry. In April 1918 he
was taken prisoner of by German forces and
reported missing. On 1 December 1918,
Herbert arrived at Dover with hundreds
of other repatriated Prisoners of War,
including other men of the King’s Own
Yorkshire Light Infantry. He returned
to his family in Conisbrough.
Objects relating to Herbert’s experience of
the First World War will be on display in ‘The
Road to Victory; the King’s Own Yorkshire
Light Infantry at War 1918-1919’, a brand new
exhibition opening 12 January 2018 at the King’s
Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Museum, within
Doncaster Museum, Chequer Road, DN1 2AE.
If you know any more about Herbert, please
get in touch with the Doncaster 1914-18
Project on info@doncaster1914-18.org.uk or by
calling 01302 734293 and asking to speak to
a member of the Doncaster 1914-18 team.
In April 1919, Herbert attended a
dinner at Doncaster Mansion House
organised by the Doncaster and
District Prisoners of War Fund. The
Mayor, Richard Jackson, and the exmayor
Abner Carr spoke at the event
and the men were treated to a dinner
and entertainment including singers,
comedians, a ventriloquist, and a
conjurer! Herbert married Lily Hanby
in 1925 and the couple moved to
Athelstane Road, Conisbrough while
he worked as a Dolomite Quarryman.
He died in Doncaster in 1977, aged 84.
Lynsey Slater
Project Researcher
Doncaster 1914-18
Herbert’s programme from the dinner,
part of the King’s Own Yorkshire Light
Infantry Museum collection. Doncaster
Heritage Services.
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Clarence Jepson
Artist and Soldier
Clarence Jepson was born in Doncaster in
1897 and was the eldest son of Richard and
Lily Jepson (née Slack). He had 2 younger
brothers, Charles Whitworth born 1902, and Leslie
Vincent born 1908, and a sister Leila born 1911.
His father, Richard, was born in Ashton under Lyne,
Lancashire in 1878, though both of Richard’s parents,
Charles and Jane Jepson, were originally from
Doncaster. By 1891 the family was back in Doncaster
living at 25 Exchange Street. The census of that
year records Richard working as a coach smith on
the railways. 1897 saw Richard marry Lily Slack in
Doncaster and registered as a railway wagon fitter.
In the 1901 census, Clarence is listed as a three-year
old and living with his parents at 53 Albert Street.
By 1911 Lily and the children were with her
parents at 93 St James Street, while Richard
was in Calcutta, India as a railway engineering
manager. Clarence is recorded as a 14 year old
scholar; he attended school at Oxford Place
School, Doncaster. After leaving school Clarence
became a clerk in the Bentley Colliery offices. It
must have been during this time that Clarence,
aged 16, produced his many sketches of animals
and portraits. Little is known of the how, who and
where his subjects came from but all are signed
‘C Jepson’ and the date 1913 is recorded.
Clarence had changed from sketching to painting
by 1916 when he produced images of vessels at
sea and it is possible that when he joined the Royal
Army Medical Corps (RAMC) on 1 November 1916,
this change in situation gave him the opportunity to
paint a subject not normally known to him. He was
sent out to East Africa at the end of 1917 and was
a ward orderly in a war hospital. As we know of no
sketches or paintings being created by Clarence after
the 1916 image, we can only guess that his work in
the hospital left him little leisure time to continue
his artistic pursuits. Dar es Salaam was the capital
of German East Africa, and had already seen much
conflict by the time Clarence arrived there as it was
the first place to record British action in the war.
from the middle of August 1916, until the German
surrender on 4 September when British troops then
entered Dar es Salaam and took control of the area.
On 12 September 1916, Divisional G.H.Q moved
to Dar es Salaam, and later No 3 East African
Stationary Hospital was stationed there. The
town became the chief sea base for movement
of supplies and for the evacuation of the sick
and wounded. The RAMC was involved in the
treatment of the wounded as soon as possible
because “A man’s chances of survival depended
on how quickly his wound was treated; modern
warfare was now producing vast numbers of
casualties requiring treatment at the same time”. 1
On 8 August 1914, H.M.S. Astraea shelled the
German wireless station and boarded and disabled
two merchant ships, the Feldmarschall and the
König. The city was then shelled by the British Navy
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There was in place a ‘Chain of Evacuation’
starting with the Regimental Aid Post (RAP)
and moving on to the Advance Dressing
Station (ASD), Casualty Clearing Stations (CCS)
and finally the movement to a hospital.
Regimental Aid Post (RAP) was set up as close
to the front line as possible and were staffed by
the Battalion Medical Officer, his orderlies and
stretcher-bearers. First aid was carried out, and
then the wounded men were sent, either walking
or being carried, usually by a member of their own
unit, to the Advance Dressing Station (ASD).
ASDs were set up by Field Ambulance (FA) with the
main dressing stations about 1 mile further back.
Their main aim was to treat the sick and wounded
men from the RAPs and return them to their units
on the front line where possible. If further treatment
was required, they were collected by RAMC
stretcher-bearers from the ASD. A ‘carry’ could be
anything up to 4 miles over muddy or shell-pocked
ground, sometimes in trenches or above ground.
Casualty Clearing stations (CCS) facilitated the
movement of casualties from the battlefields to
the hospitals. They were usually situated about
20 kilometres behind the lines, about half-way
between the front line and the base area. This was
the first line of surgery for the wounded. These
were very large units and could have a minimum
of 50 beds and 150 stretchers which enabled them
to treat a minimum of 200 sick and wounded at
any time. The station would consist of 7 Medical
Officers, 1 Quartermaster and 77 other ranks,
including a Dentist, a Pathologist, 7 members of
the Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing
Service (QAIMNS) and other non-medical staff. Each
station would have its own marquees and wooden
huts for medical and surgical wards, kitchens,
sanitation facilities, a dispensary, operating theatres,
medical and surgical stores, an incineration plant,
ablutions and mortuary, and accommodation for
the nurses, officers and soldiers of the unit. There
were 6 mobile X-Ray units with the British forces
and these were sent to assist the CCSs during the
main battles. Trailer X-Ray equipment was attached
to the CCS units from very early on in the war.
Stationery Hospitals were often used as specialist
hospitals, for epidemics, gas victims, sick,
neurasthenia cases or those suffering from VD.
They were not stationery, despite the name and
could move more easily than the CCSs. The
hospitals were usually situated in civilian hospitals
in large cities or towns, but were also equipped for
fieldwork. There were 2 hospitals to every Division
and each one could hold up to 400 casualties. One
of the epidemics that would have been present at the
hospital was the Influenza pandemic of 1918-1919.
It was the deadliest epidemic in modern history,
infecting an estimated 500 million people worldwide
– about one-third of the planet’s population at
the time – and killing an estimated 20-50 million
victims. This death toll was more than had died
during the First World War. Sadly, like many others,
Clarence succumbed to influenza and died on the
21st November 1918 at the Stationery Hospital, Dar
es Salaam. He was just 21 years old and his death
came about a matter of days after the conflict had
ended. Dar es Saleem (Upanga Road) cemetery
was opened as a war cemetery in March 1918 and
has 231 Commonwealth burials, one of which is
Clarence Jepson’s drawings from 1913
(by kind permission of Alwyn Bean)
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Pte. C Jepson RAMC. Clarence must
have witness many sights, while serving
in Dar es Salaam, which could have been
the subject of his future paintings and
sketches. If Clarence had survived the
war who knows what his artistic flare
may have produced and like many
young men, who lost their lives in the
conflict, their potential will never
be known.
Liz Astin
Library Advisor (Heritage)
References:
1 website https://www.ramc-ww1.
com/chain_of_evacuation.php
Extract from Doncaster Gazette 20 December
1918 (Local Studies collection), Letter from
Imperial War Graves Commission regarding
C Jepson’s grave in Dar Es Salaam cemetery,
one of Clarence’s drawings and a postcard to
his mother sent from Durban, South Africa,
dated 9 October 1917 on his way to Dar Es
Salaam (by kind permission of Alwyn Bean)
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Cheshire regiment in trenches - By John Warwick Brooke -
This is photograph Q 3990 from the collections of the Imperial
War Museums (collection no. 1900-13), Public Domain,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=116369
The Language
of the Trenches
The First World War, or Great War as it was
known at the time, left its mark on the
English language with the introduction
of a number of new words and terms.
The changes in the type of warfare and
developments in military technology brought with
them new terms such as anti-aircraft, ‘Flanders
mud’, shell shock, tank and Tailspin (see addendum
at the end of the article).
Types of ‘trench’ warfare had been evident
throughout history; the most famous use of trench
warfare, however, is on the Western Front in the
First World War. By December 1914 trench boots
and trench coats were invented to cope with these
conditions.
During the First World War soldiers at the front had
to endure terrible living conditions, as well as being
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injured in battles, getting ill and contracting diseases.
While in the trenches there was the constant noise
of battle all around them, including explosions
from shells and guns being fired. By early 1915 the
physical and psychological effects of trench warfare
were being felt when trench foot and trench fever
were first recorded. Trench fever infected soldiers
from both sides fighting in Flanders, France, Poland,
Galicia, Italy, Salonika, Macedonia, Mesopotamia,
Russia and Egypt. From early on in the War, men
started succumbing to a mysterious illness. The
initial symptoms of the illness were generally shortlived,
but recovery was often slow. Up to a third
of British troops seen by doctors during the war
were thought to have been suffering with trench
fever. Despite naming it, the doctors had no definite
idea of what caused it. Only after the war was the
cause discovered: bacteria carried by body lice.
For days on end the soldiers were knee deep in
mud, exposed to wet and damp conditions, unable
to change their clothes and keep themselves clean.
They often shared what small space they had with
rats and lice. The lice were often compared to pale
fawn coloured insects, which left blotchy red marks
all over the body. They also created a sour, stale

smell. They fed on blood and caused severe itching
but also carried diseases; trench fever being one and
typhus another. If the skin was scratched while the
lice were feeding, infected waste matter from the lice
spread into small wounds, and they became infected.
Some of the symptoms reported were: a loss of
energy, a sudden fever, really bad headaches, skin
rash, dizziness, sensitive shins and pain in the eyes.
The lice would burrow their way into seams of the
legs of trousers, particularly favouring the crotch
area and back seams of shirts. Various methods
were used to remove the lice. A lighted candle would
be applied were the lice were at their thickest and
this would make them pop like Chinese crackers. The
downside was if not done correctly you could end
up burning your clothes! On rare occasions when
on a break from the front, all clothes were burnt and
soldiers were re-issued with a suit of sterilised blue
material and new uniforms given out. Where possible
large vats of hot water were provided to give the men
a bath and their clothes were washed in a delousing
Cholera belt by kind permission of The
National Archives UK @ Flickr Commons
Addendum from Oxford English Dictionary website
Anti-aircraft
1914 Scotsman 25 Sept. 5/4. An antiaircraft
gun of the Third Army Corps.
Flanders Mud
1914 N.Y. Times 14 Nov. 1/7. (headline)
Soldiers crouch in Flanders mud while
wind and shells shriek wildly overhead.
Shell-shock
1915 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 30 Jan. 192/2. Only
one case of shell shock has come under my
observation. A Belgian officer was the victim.
A shell burst near him without inflicting any
physical injury. He presented practically
complete loss of sensation in the lower
extremities and much loss of sensation.
Tank
1916 Rep. Comm. Imperial Def. 24 Dec.
1915 13 Jan. (P.R.O.: ADM 116/1339) 8.
The provision of these machines [sc. Land
Cruisers] shall be entrusted to a small Executive
Supply Committee, which, for secrecy, shall
be called the ‘Tank Supply Committee’.
First World War timeline
Tailspin
1916 Wing (Royal Navy Air Service) 7 July 8/2.
The old hands will remember the clever flying
of the former Felixstowe officer, then a Sub.,
and will recall a certain Schneider tail spin that
nearly cut short the career of the daring pilot.
Trench Foot
1915 Lancet 30 Jan. 230/1. The so-called
cases of trench pain or trench feet usually
have no tissue destruction, no blebs, and
not even any discolouration of the skin.
Trench Fever
1915 Lancet 25 Sept. 734/1. The case of a
twice-inoculated soldier suffering from trench
fever, whose case was diagnosed as pyrexia.
Trench Boots
1914 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 5 Dec. 992/1. If the men
had ‘trench boots’—very large boots made of
canvas stuffed with straw to pull on over their
boots—much preventable suffering and loss of
men in the firing line would have been avoided.
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machine. The eggs did still remain in the clothes
and within hours body heat would hatch them out.
Among the troops lice were known as ‘chats’. While
the men were sitting trying to rid their clothes of a
lice infestation, they were sat around ‘chatting’. This
is where we get the phrase ‘to chat’ from men sat
around socialising and talking whilst trying to get
rid of the lice. Some famous authors who suffered
from trench fever during the First World War were
J. R. R. Tolkien, A. A. Milne and C. S. Lewis.
The bingo call for ball number 9 is ‘Doctor’s
Orders’ and its origins come from the time when
soldiers at the front were given Pill Number 9.
As the doctors were not sure what was causing
trench fever, medicine was prescribed to get
the men back on duty. Pill Number 9 was, in
fact, just a laxative that was doled out but did
nothing to help men suffering with a fever.
Trench Fever still exists today. Outbreaks are
usually amongst the homeless and poorer people.
Refugee camps are also susceptible to the
disease. Luckily, antibiotics are prescribed today.
The poor conditions of the trenches brought about
other ailments and physical problems. Trench foot
is another condition that affected the soldiers due
to spending many hours in the water-filled trenches,
where their feet would be cold and wet and with
little opportunity to change their socks. As there
was very limited chances to dry and warm their feet
they would go numb and turn red then blue. If left
untreated, the condition could turn into gangrene and
limbs would have to be amputated. Wyn’s Military
Index to Doncaster Newspapers 1914-1919 records
many entries for serving men suffering from trench
fever and trench foot. Some of those who died from
these conditions include Pte. George Marshall of the
West Riding Regiment in spring 1918. 1917 when
trench warfare was at its height saw Pte. H Minchin
of the South Wales Borderers and Pte. J Pullen of
the Yorks and Lancs Regiment succumb to trench
foot and trench fever respectively in January 1917.
Due to the wet conditions that the soldiers lived in
while at the front, cholera was another condition
that the soldiers had to contend with. Because of
their poor ability to fight diseases and not having
access to antibiotics at that time, when water
became contaminated, soldiers suffered from
cholera, a disease that dehydrates the body because
of severe diarrhoea which can result in death.
Hooton Pagnell Hall was one of many local halls
utilised as a hospital during the war, which treated
J R R Tolkien (aged 24) in army uniform,
photograph taken in 1916.
wounded soldiers. Sarah Julia Warde-Aldam, a
well-known local fundraiser who lived at the Hall,
was a matron and general administrator. She raised
funds and sent letters and gifts to the soldiers at the
front. At Doncaster Archives there is a register (ref
no. DD WN/B5/5) from the Clayton, Frickley, Hooton
Pagnell and Moorhouse War Working Party, which
records comforts sent to troops. The resource is
particularly useful as it gives the name and service
details of the recipient and what items were sent
to him. Amongst the gifts of shirts, nightshirts and
balaclavas were cholera belts. These were a flat
strip of red flannel or knitted wool about six feet long
and six inches wide, which were wrapped around
the waist and believed to protect the wearers from
cholera, dysentery and any other illnesses and keep
the chill from the abdomen. Between 1914 and 1915
at least eighty-five cholera belts were sent to the
front from Frickley Hall. Many of the serving soldiers
would have benefitted from Julia’s unceasing work to
provide some comfort for the men on the front line.
Enid Foster
Library Advisor
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Low morale was not only felt by those men serving
at the Front. Women and others at home were
facing their own problems and troubles, not
least of all worrying about husbands, fathers and sons
fighting on the Front Line. Companies soon realised
that they could play a part in raising morale at home.
Articles and adverts in the newspapers of the time
rallied people to the cause. Rowntree’s created and
published a series of adverts called the
‘Women Workers’ series’
during the war to support
women at home and help
to keep morale high on
the Home Front.
These are a few of
the adverts from the
Doncaster Gazette.
See the next edition
for more on this
subject.
Rowntree’s Elect Cocoa
Women Workers’ Series
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Cricket in
Doncaster during
the Great War
Formal opening of Doncaster Plant Works’ Eden Grove Sports
ground on 30 May 1914. On the verandah - extreme left is the
Great Northern Railway’s Locomotive Engineer, Nigel Gresley
and seventh from the left Hon. F.S. Jackson, Yorkshire cricketer,
England Test Captain and a director of the GNR, who performed
the opening ceremony.
The history of cricket in Doncaster and its
surrounding area stretches back as far as
the 1780s when games took place on
Pickburn Lees.
In 1985, ‘Cricket in Doncaster and District: An
Outline History’ was published by Doncaster
Libraries and told the history of the sport locally. A
Doncaster Town team - or rather a succession of
town teams, not too formal in their organisation -
were active throughout the 19th Century. Cricket
clubs sprang up in profusion, a major stimulus
being the establishment of the Great Northern
Railways’ Plant Works in the 1850s. A new facility
for the town’s railwayman to play cricket (and other
sports) was unveiled on 30 May 1914, at Eden
Grove, Hexthorpe. The sports ground was formally
opened by the famous cricket legend Hon. F S
Jackson of Yorkshire and England, whom he had
captained against Australia. Jackson was also a
Director of the GNR. The occasion was marked
by a match between Doncaster railwaymen and
their counterparts from Darlington, with Doncaster
winning the match. The Doncaster team appeared
in a photograph taken that day with Jackson and
Nigel Gresley (afterwards Sir Nigel Gresley), the
mechanical engineer for initially the GNR and
later the LNER, who was a keen cricketer and
gave his name to a local cricket competition.
The development of collieries in South Yorkshire
was another key factor in the emergence of
league cricket locally in the pre-1914 era. Two
separate Doncaster & District leagues were formed
successively in the early years of the 20th Century,
the second in 1912. Brodsworth Main team, although
only formed in 1910, were champions by 1914;
Bullcroft having been the first winners in 1913.
The outbreak of the First World War in August 1914
had an obvious effect on non-warlike activities
such as cricket. Many cricketers joined the
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F S Jackson, Yorkshire and England cricketer and Director
of the GNR, who opened the Eden Grove ground in 1914
LNER dignitaries including Sir Nigel Gresley (front row left), Arthur Peppercorn (back
row second left) and Sir Ronald Matthews, Chair of the LNER (third from left on
front row) at Eden Grove Sports Ground circa 1929 (Local Studies collection)
colours, 22 of them from a renowned local club,
Balby, four of whom made the supreme sacrifice.
Doncaster & District League cricket continued
for another year despite wartime difficulties, but
1916 and 1917 brought a suspension of activity,
though the nearby Mexborough & District League
operated in 1916. However, we have to admire the
perseverance of the Doncaster & District League
for re-starting in 1918 – before, of course, the
Armistice albeit with fewer (8) clubs then pre-war.
There were friendly matches in the war’s middle
years, including a match in 1916 by a visiting RFC
XI (the Royal Flying Corps was to be absorbed
into the RAF in 1918). A Doncaster airfield by
the Racecourse trained pilots during the war
and it’s possible that some of the trainees and
instructors were among the 1916 RFC XI.
Cricket in some form took place during the war,
doubtless for charity. There had long been church
teams and some school cricket which continued
(the pre-1914 era had been a great one for Doncaster
Grammar School). There were many difficulties, of
course, not least with fewer groundsmen to prepare
pitches to the standards desired, due to military callups
and other factors. However, cricket had a part
to play during the war, not least to promote morale
in the war’s darkest days. Cricket soon revived when
peace came and it was again to play a part when
war came again in 1939, though that is another story.
Philip L Scowcroft
Local Historian
Cigarette card showing Cricketer, Hon. F S Jackson
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Capt. Herbert
Vincent Corbett
1893-1918
Doncaster Grammar School on Thorne Road as Vincent Corbett
would have known it now the school library where the bronze
plaques for ‘Old Boys’ lost in both World Wars are located
(Local Studies collection)
In April 1914, as a care-free youngster, he
was out on fieldwork with the experts of
the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union surveying
the banks of the river Nidd upstream of
Knaresborough and publishing a list of his
beetle finds in The Naturalist (Corbett 1914).¹
Loss of a talented young
scientist
Vincent Corbett of 3 Thorne Road, Doncaster,
was the son of Dr H.H. Corbett, founder of
the Doncaster Scientific Society and the first
Curator of Doncaster Museum, 1910-1921. Like his
father he was an enthusiastic naturalist, frequently
attending meetings of the Doncaster Scientific
Society and Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union (YNU)
and publishing his observations and discoveries
in the YNU scientific journal The Naturalist.
Vincent attended Doncaster Grammar
School, as an ‘Exhibition scholar’, receiving a
scholarship on the grounds of merit. Whilst at
the school Vincent held the honorary posts of
curator of museum, librarian, magazine editor,
House Captain and Captain of the School.
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From Doncaster Grammar School Vincent went on
to Cambridge University where at St. Catherine’s
College he received a 2nd Class History Tripos.
Being a member of the University Officer Training
Corps, at the outbreak of War he volunteered for
active service and on 8 October 1914 was gazetted
2nd Lieutenant in the 1st Cambridgeshire Regiment
(T.F.). The Cambridgeshires were then attached to
the 11th (Service) Battalion of the Essex Regiment
which after training at Aldershot, served with the
British Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders
reaching Saint-Polsur-Ternois and Etaples on
4 September 1915. Vincent was quickly promoted
to Lieutenant but near Ypres in April he was severely
wounded in the shoulder and invalided home.
Vincent returned to Cambridge in June 1915 to
take his BA Honours but owing to ill health was
subsequently employed on home service. During
his convalescence he turned his attention to
entomology, the YNU Annual report for 1915 noting
“In the neglected order of Hemiptera [True Bugssuch
as grasshoppers, aphids, planthoppers and

leafhoppers] Lieut. H. Vincent Corbett is to be
congratulated on the results of his studies, although
severely handicapped by circumstances. Of the
sixty-six species … collected in the Doncaster
district during the year, twenty three are new to
Yorkshire. He has also paid considerable attention
to the Homoptera [Aphids and Leafhoppers] ...
Several Ichneumons [parasitic wasps] have been
added to the county list … observations have
been made or specimens captured by … Vincent
Corbett at Doncaster” (Butterfield 1916).²
Also the Minutes of the Doncaster Naturalists’
Society record that “In Entomology, the best
work has been done locally by Lieutenant
H.V. Corbett during the time that he was unfit
for military duty. He collected Hemiptera of
our district chiefly in Wheatley Wood and at
Rossington. The result was an addition of almost
30 species of interest to the Yorkshire list ...”³
On 2 September 1916, observations at an ant nest
in a Doncaster garden (presumably at his home at
3 Thorne Road), Vincent encountered a single, later
a group of worker Red Ants, Myrmica Ruginodis, as
they cooperated in overpowering and manoeuvring
a relatively huge adult male Earwig, Forficula
Auricularia, into their underground nest, an operation
which lasted from 5:20pm to 8:20pm. Careful notes
were made of the sequences of manoeuvres, and
of the attack and defence strategies employed by
both participants. Perhaps this interaction was
viewed as a metaphor for the unequal skirmishes
encountered on the Western Front (Corbett 1916). 4
In 1917, whilst on home duties, Vincent was
promoted to Captain. On his recovery he returned
to his regiment in France in June, 1918, being
attached to the 11th Essex Regiment, but was
killed in action during advances on Wassigny
during the Battle of the Selle on 17 October,
just 25 days before the end of hostilities. He is
buried in Bohain Cemetery, near Le Cateau. 5 & 6
In 1910 Beechfield House had opened as Doncaster’s first
museum. (Local Studies collection)
In addition to the personal tragedy, since Vincent
was clearly a highly knowledgeable and talented
entomologist, his death robbed the next generation
of important scientific expertise. Fortunately his
published notes survive, and some of the insects he
collected are still preserved in Doncaster Museum.
Colin Howes
Doncaster Naturalists’ Society
WW1 Research Project
References:
1. Corbett, H.V. (1914) Yorkshire Naturalists’ at
Knaresborough 11-13 April 1914:
Coleoptera report. The Naturalist 39 (1914): 182-183.
2. Butterfield, R. (1916) Yorkshire Naturalists’
Union Annual Report for 1915:
Hymenoptera, Diptera and Hemiptera Committee.
The Naturalist 41 (1916): 40.
3. Doncaster Naturalists’ Society Minute Book (Annual Report for 1916).
DNS Archives, Doncaster Museum.
4. Corbett, H.V. (1916) Fight between Earwig and Ants.
The Naturalist 41 (1916): 348-349.
5. Anon (1918) Capt. H.V. Corbett. The Naturalist 43 (1918): 340-341.
6. https://www.forces-war-records.co.uk/maps/units/182/
essex-regiment/11th-service-battalion
De Ruvigny’s Roll of Honour for H V Corbett
(Find my Past website)
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★
Doncaster Heritage
Festival 2018
★
Saturday 28 April
11am-4pm Doncaster Local History Fair organised by Doncaster and
District Heritage Association.
7.30pm start Lioness Theatre proudly presents: The Black Stuff.
Sunday 29 April
10.30am-12 noon The Looking for Richard III Project by
Philippa Langley MBE.
11am-3pm Cusworth Walled Gardens Open Day.
Monday 30 April
2.00pm-5.00pm Family History for Beginners’ workshop.
Tuesday 1 May
2.30pm start The Life and Times of a Doncaster Cyclist -
Tom Simpson: a talk by Chris Sidwells.
8pm start Brewers’ Inquisition: Heritage Edition.
Wednesday 2 May
10.30am-3.30pm Beginners’ First World War Family History
Workshop with Bill Bevan.
2pm start ‘A Mighty Force?’ Doncaster’s Edwardian Girl Preachers.
Friday 4 May
10.30am-12.30pm Family History on the Internet session.
2pm start Curator’s Tour: Keep the Home Fires burning, Doncaster’s
Home Front in the First World War with Lynsey Slater.
Saturday 5 May
10.30am-12.00 noon History of Chocolate: a talk by Helen Cox.
2.00pm-3.30pm Rebel Girls: a talk by Jill Liddington.
12.30pm-2.00pm Doncaster Minster’s Historic Schulze Organ.
Sunday 6 May
11am start Discover the Sand House – A Guided Walk with
Richard Bell.
11.00am-12.30pm The Romans in Doncaster: Artefact Handling
Session with Yvette Marks.
12.00 noon – 4.00pm May Day at Cusworth Hall.
Monday 7 May
11am start Discover the Sand House – A Guided Walk
with Richard Bell.
2.00pm start The Rebel Daughters of Doncaster: a guided walk
uncovering our suffrage history.
Tuesday 8 May
11am-12 noon Doncaster 1914-18: stories from the First World War.
Wednesday 9 May
10.30am-3.30pm Discover your First World War K.O.Y.L.I. ancestor
with Lynsey Slater and Bill Bevan.
6.30 pm start Women and work in the First World War: a talk
by Alison Fell.
6.00-7.00pm Doncaster Minster’s Forgotten Medieval Crypt
with Louise O’Brien.
Thursday 10 May
10.00am-12.00 noon Palaeography workshop with Doncaster’s
Borough Archivist, Charles Kelham.
2.30-4.00pm Crime and Justice in the 19th century: a talk by
John Brown.
6.00-8.00pm Make your own suffragette sash: Workshop with
Joanna Nurse and Alison Greer.
Friday 11 May
10.30am-12.00 noon The Domesday Book of Hidden History at
Hickleton: a talk by John Dabell.
11am-1.30pm The Geology and Landscape of the Don Gorge.
11am-3pm Mexborough and District Local History Fair.
Saturday 12 May
10.30am-4pm Pottery in Archaeology conference 2018.
10.30am start From Romans to Racing Heritage Walk.
2.00pm start A Country House at War: Hooton Pagnell Hall 1914-
1918.
3pm start ‘The Sand House Rocks!’ (A Celebration in Music & Words)
with the Sand House Charity & Doncaster Youth Jazz Association.
Sunday 13 May
3.00pm start ‘That’s Entertainment’: A Hyde Park guided walk.
2pm start Bawtry Heritage Walk.
Monday 30 April-Friday 4 May and
Tuesday 8 May-Friday 11 May
In Focus: Luke Bagshaw’s photography business exhibition.
Doncaster Local History Fair
Saturday 28 April 2018 11am-4pm
Doncaster Museum and Art Gallery, Chequer Road, DN1 2AE
• Up to 25 displays and stalls by local and family history groups and societies
• Craft stalls and demonstrations, re-enactors and children’s activities
• Launch of the Doncaster Heritage Festival
• Doncaster 1914-18 Project Home Front Display, Real and
replica object handling and digitisation roadshow
• Disabled Access
For further details contact: (01302) 734307
Email: central.localhistory@doncaster.gov.uk
Or visit: www.doncaster.gov.uk/heritagefestival
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Discover Doncaster’s heritage at this year’s
The 2018 Doncaster Heritage Festival will be launched at the Doncaster
Local History Fair on Saturday 28th April at Doncaster Museum.
A highlight of the festival will be a
talk given by Philippa Langley from
the Looking for Richard Project,
detailing the unique and groundbreaking
historical investigation that
captured the public imagination and
located the lost grave of Richard III.
The festival has an exciting programme
made up of a series of enthralling talks,
workshops, walks and events that explore
the history of the borough. Events will be
at a variety of different venues all across
Doncaster from morning to evening,
so why not discover something new?
For more information about the Festival please contact: Doncaster Local Studies
call 01302 734307 or email central.localhistory@doncaster.gov.uk.
Visit www.doncaster.gov.uk/heritagefestival
The festival is organised by Doncaster Heritage Services and is supported
by heritage groups across Doncaster for the enjoyment of all.
Doncaster Museum and Art Gallery, Chequer Road, Doncaster DN1 2AE T: 01302 734293

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