Publications 2016

Publications include details of newspaper articles, annual accounts for Remembrance Day, exhibitions and related events.

Articles have been submitted by the group to the local weekly newspapers and the following have appeared in 2016:

March16, 2016 – Dawlish Gazette – “And the War rolls on”

May 25, 2016 – Herald Express – “Centenary services to honour those lost in the Battle of Jutland”

June 8, 2016 – Dawlish Gazette – “War story told from local perspective” (Launch of website by the Mayor, Cllr Angela Fenne)

June 15, 2016 – Dawlish Gazette – “Service honours WW1 victim struck down by typhoid in India”

June 22, 2016 – Dawlish Gazette – “Remembering Dawlish heroes of the Somme”

June 29, 2016 – Dawlish Gazette – “WW1 pilgrims to Somme ceremony”

June 29, 2016 – Herald Express – “Somme will be remembered 100 years on with residents blowing whistles”

August 17, 2016 – Dawlish Gazette – “Service honours submariner”

August 24, 2016 – Dawlish Gazette – “Services honour three more Great War heroes”

October 5, 2016 – Dawlish Gazette – “Old soldier remembered”

October 26, 2016 – Dawlish Gazette – “War on the home front in 1916”

November 9, 2016 – Dawlish Gazette – “Honouring town’s debt”

November 23, 2016 – Dawlish Gazette – “Leaders in the field” + “Poppy Appeal collection”

November 23, 2016 – Dawlish Gazette – “Savouring simple comforts of the Home Front”

December 7, 2016 – Dawlish Gazette – “Faces betray the toll of army training”

December 14, 2016 – Dawlish Gazette – “Grim news from Front in 1917”

Cumulative annual accounts for Remembrance Day:

Remembrance Day parade to the War Memorial and laying of wreath on behalf of the project

Exhibitions prepared and held in the Manor House, Dawlish:

May 31, 2016 – Five panel exhibition of the Battle of Jutland and of the six Dawlish men killed in the action, opened by the Mayor of Dawlish, Cllr Angela Fenne

Related events

July 8, 2016 – Showing of the film The Battle of the Somme at the Shaftesbury Theatre, Dawlish at 7pm

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