Page 52 - Life in Langham 1914-1919

Rutland War Weapons Week

On Monday next begins the big effort to raise

£50,000 in the county. It is a large sum, but RUTLAND

other districts have achieved as much –

districts no larger, no richer, no more patriotic £50,000

than ours…

War Weapons Week
Do your share in raising a sum which will
begins next

prove that – man for man – population for

population – Rutland can rival the best that MONDAY

any county in the Kingdom has yet your money ready for Monday – ready to buy
AVE
HNational war bonds and War Savings Certificates – ready

accomplished. … to make the grand total for the week a triumphant, a record
success. For next week, if the people of Oakham lend the
country £10,000 and if the people of Uppingham lend £7500,
the authorities have promised
If, during the week, Oakham raises £10,000,
to name an aeroplane the
the Huns will feel the power of your money “OAKHAM”

when Oakham’s Own Aeroplane comes and to name a gun the

swooping down to spray their massed ranks “UPPINGHAM”

Get your Pass Book. See how much money you have in the
with death from its machine gun; or when the Bank. Draw the cheque and have it ready to give the week
a flying start on Monday morning. Help to win for Rutland
drone of its engines and a crash of its bombs the honour of having raised the whole of the £50,000
asked of the county next week.
resound through the cities beyond the Rhine. … The
Gun named “Ancaster”!
I hear that special efforts are being made at That is the distinction which Ancaster
means to win – the name on the gun
that will remind our lads at the Front
Ketton, Langham, Whissendine, and how Ancaster lent £1500 in one short
week to help them.
Empingham, the four largest villages in the
Help to make the Week a Big Success!
county, to raise a share of the £50,000. …
tional
Buy Na

To obtain £2,380 at Ketton, £1,560 at

Langham, £1,680 at Whissendine and £1,600 War Bonds

at Empingham should not be impossible if all
and War Saving Certificates

the inhabitants will put their backs into it. …

The Grantham Journal - 22 June 1918

The Rutland War Weapons Week was brought to a triumphant conclusion on Saturday

last, when a patriotic demonstration took place in Oakham, which formed a fitting

climax to the county’s military effort on behalf of the war. The success achieved by the

week’s campaign, it may be said at once, was beyond all expectation…

The Grantham Journal - 6 July 1918

Rutland raised £65,000 during the week

and Langham well exceeded its target.