{"id":13097,"date":"2014-12-24T02:52:15","date_gmt":"2014-12-24T01:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=13097"},"modified":"2014-12-24T02:52:15","modified_gmt":"2014-12-24T01:52:15","slug":"christmas-in-abingdon-100-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=13097","title":{"rendered":"A Subdued Christmas in Abingdon 100 years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"

During 2014 there have been a number of events in Abingdon commemorating the centenary of the start of World War I.
\n\"Subdued
\nAbingdon Library are still collecting information about people from Abingdon who served in WWI.<\/p>\n

In the Abingdon Free Press and Didcot News, 100 years ago, there is a comment that Christmas celebrations, at home, should be subdued because of the vacant places round the hearths of many families with sons, and older brothers, serving in places of danger – even more so, because of bereavements – “Weep with those who weep.”<\/em>
\n\"Subdued
\nThe Oxford Picture Journal published pictures of service men killed or injured from Oxford and surroundings towns and villages. Those pictured as killed in action from Abingdon included:
\nPrivate King of 22 Ock Street killed on Sep 10 1914 at Mons in Belgium
\nPrivate Bowler of 54 Vineyard \u00a0killed \u00a0Sep 18 1914 in Belgium
\nLance Corporal Luker of 24 West St Helen Street killed Oct 1914
\nPrivate Alford of Winterbourne Road
\nPrivate Stanley of 8 Ock Street killed Oct 28 1914 at Zonnebeke in Belgium
\nPrivate Denton of Victoria Road killed Oct 21 1914 in Belgium
\nPrivate Blagrove of 202 Ock Street killed Nov 13 1914 \u00a0at Zonnebeke in Belgium<\/p>\n

The Free Press also mentioned that the members of the Royal Naval Air Service, billeted in Abingdon, had arranged a ‘capital’<\/em> concert at the YMCA Social Club Rooms in Ock Street.<\/p>\n

In the same paper there is another comment – some local traders were asking why fewer service men were billeted in Abingdon compared to other towns. Service men were good for trade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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