Page 6 - Life in Langham 1914-1919
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New arrivals!
… there were some Belgian women… who were pregnant… and no proper accommodation for
their being confined …
… the Guardians [should] allow the Lying in Wards to be used…
Oakham Union [Poor Law] Minute Book 21 Nov 1914 - ROLLR
All the King’s horses …
In Nov. 1915, Lord Lonsdale became Master of the Cottesmore Hunt,
needing the Barleythorpe stables: the Belgian horses were moved to
Oakham; the 30+ carriages stored in the Poultry Hall and Riding
School [now Museum], thanks to Major & Mrs Henry Noel.
King of the Belgians’ Royal Carriage - Rutland and the Great War, George Phillips
A post-card from home
Posted 2nd July 1915 - Rutland County Museum Collection
Was not Ramscapelle, a few miles north of Bruges, occupied by
the Germans in July 1915?
Yet it was possible for a postcard showing war damage to be
printed by this date and to be sent, via an organisation called
something like Post… Militaire, to refugees in England.
