Newspaper cuttings: Connected with Mumbles
Snippets: online
LOYAL MUMBLES BROTHERS
Conrad P. ROBINSON, Graham ROBINSON and Ronald ROBINSON
When enteric fever is caused by Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi, it is known as typhoid fever.
It's caused by a bacterium called Salmonella typhi, which is related to the bacteria that cause salmonella food poisoning. Typhoid fever is highly contagious.
Norman SAVOURS c1920
Norman Robert Savours, born in 1918, is pictured in the pram in Mumbles, with his brother Richard and their mother Martha.
Richard Savours born 1915 and Norman Robert Savours, the baby, was born 1918. Their mother, Martha (nee Balding) married Norman G Savours in 1914. Norman Gerald was a clerk with a steamship company.
Norman Robert Savours
No. 910203 Lance-Bombardier Norman Robert SAVOURS, Royal Regiment of Artillery.
(Swansea). Awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal in 1941. (From National Gazette)
Given an emergency commission in 1942: Norman Robert SAVOURS, D.C.M.
He died on active service in Italy in the Second World War
Lieut Norman Robert Savours
Service Number 245017
"H" Bty., 2 Regt. Royal Horse Artillery
Died: 4 Aug 1944 age 26 years
Cemetery: Arezzo War Cemetery Grave VI. A. 14.
Burial or Cremation Place: Arezzo, Provincia di Arezzo, Toscana, Italy
Headstone inscription:
A VERY DEARLY LOVED SON AND BROTHER
Son of Norman Gerald and Martha Savours, of Swansea.
Snippets From The Newspapers
Connected with Mumbles
W A EDWARDS
Second Lieutenant
Welsh Regiment:
24th (Pembroke and Glamorgan Yeomanry) Bn.
Died of Wounds: 1 November 1917, age 25
Buried with Honour at BEERSHEBA WAR CEMETERY
Grave Reference: K. 75.
Husband of Aerona Edwards, née Sails,
of Glan-yr-onen, Mumbles, Swansea
[later, the house was known to locals as, The Royal British Legion,building, Newton Road, Mumbles.,
which was demolished around 2005.]
They were married in 1915 and there were no children
Son of Mr. & Mrs. W. H. Edwards, of Duffryn Tin and Steel Works, Morriston, Swansea
Lieut Edwards left for Egypt in 1916, was wounded in Gaza and recovered in Hospital.
He went back to the front and received the wound which proved fatal.
The Cambrian Daily Leader, 6 November 1917
Snippets From The Newspapers
Amman Valley Chronicle
14 May 1914 -
Concerns some soldiers going in a boat from Mumbles Pier to the Lighthouse and getting into difficulties.
10 September 1914 -
is about guns being fired at Mumbles because 2 Belgian trawlers didn't understand the need to 'heave to' which makes me think the guns were on the lighthouse island and were firing at the boats who did not stop as they came into the bay.
CAMBRIAN DAILY LEADER
16 June 1915
Rev. M Lester Gaunt, The Manse, Broadway, Mumbles. (Ed. now part of Newton Road)
He gave one razor In response to Master Cutler's Appeal.
505 razors have been donated for our troops at the front.
Fighting Constables For 'Swansea's Own'
MUMBLES PRESS
1st October 1915
The Roll of Honour of Mumbles Men who have obeyed the call to arms is 115 men.
MUMBLES PRESS
By the 26 January 1916, the Roll of Honour was up to 262 plus 29.
No date:
Cambrian Daily Leader July 3, 1916
MUMBLES
Pt Alfred Harris of Lewins Hill Thistleboon injured at Langland
MUMBLES PRESS
16 January 1919
CAPTURED BY GERMANS AND WORKED HARD
MUMBLES PRESS
23 January 1919
RGA Men ENTERTAINED AT WREN HARRIS
MUMBLES PRESS
6 February 1919
A MUMBLES MEMORIAL
-A Suggestion by Mr Davies Headmaster,
Oystermouth Council School
MUMBLES PRESS
1 May 1919
Husbands Death of Victoria Hospital Matron
Herald of Wales.
15th Feb. 1919
Signaller Glyn Morris, 114th Infantry Brigade, who is the son of Mr. and Mrs. William Morris, Myrtle House, Newton, Mumbles, was on board the Nanagansett. Signaller Morris, who has just arrived home after his thrilling experience, had been in the trenches for nearly three years, and got through without the slightest mishap. He will now be able to finish his apprenticeship at Messrs. Boots, chemists, Swansea.
I wonder if "thrilling" was quite the word he would have used!
MUMBLES PRESS
15th May 1919
In British Hospital Lisbon, W H Jenkins of Mons Terrace.
He was 60 years old and had served on a minesweeper in the early stages of the wat.
Having being discharged from the Navy, he stayed ?? and then he returned to sea.
While in Lisbon, he contracted flu and leaves a widow and two children.
MUMBLES PRESS
22nd May 1919
Presentation to seaman Arthur Hullin of RNR of a Long Service and Good Conduct Medal.
He was the son of J Hullin of Southend.
He had served Two and half years at Gallipoli, on HMS Doris.
MUMBLES WOUNDED ENTERTAINED
South Wales Daily Post,
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