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World War One and Acocks Green
The First World War started a century ago, and proved to be a shocking and far-reaching nightmare, which fundamentally changed British society and world politics. In Acocks Green, we have been able to find evidence of life on the home front for young people, and memories of parents who fought. Acocks Green has its own controversial V.C. as well, associated with the War Poet Wilfred Owen, no less.
The following memories were recorded in 1977 as part of a local history and identity project. Some minor editing has been done to improve the flow of the interviews.
Miss Edith Mahoney, 63 Shirley Road
I don't remember much about the First World War. I think I was too young and irresponsible to notice things in those days. I was very airy fairy, I must admit that. Mind you, it was wonderful when the war was over. We thought that was marvellous, but I did have a brother killed in the war. That was very unsettling. That was the only thing really that brought the war to my notice.
In business we were flooded out with orders and it made us very busy – the war did. The war made a lot of difference to the business of the textile trade, because everyone used a lot of black. They all went into high mourning, and it caused a big turnover in the trade, whereas now if anyone dies people don't bother about black now, and so it doesn't make any difference, but in those days it did.
Taffy and Mrs Lewis, 93 Severne Road
My father got killed in the 1914-18 war. Before the war he was a chauffeur salesman. That's a job that doesn't exist now. When the war broke out, unfortunately for him, he was on the reserve and he went in the A.F.C. 6/- a day. When you realise that the private soldiers were getting 1/- a day thousands of them volunteered during the 1914-18 war. The first lot for 1/- a day and dad was getting 6/- But during the retreat in 1918 he got gassed. Sent him home to us. There was six of us and he died at home from gas poisoning, but what they didn't tell Mum, it had turned into what we called galloping consumption and that started it. They should never have sent Dad home to us in that condition, but people knew they were doing wrong because I remember these doctors saying if you'd got money Mr Lewis, I could do something for you.
Mr Clark, who lived nearby, was originally an Evesham man, a timber specialist, and all he did was travel the country buying walnut for the B.S.A. to use in gunmaking. When you come to think of the price of walnut now, and every gun that the B.S.A. used to make in those days Lee Enfield and Lewis, the butts and that were made in walnut. That was during the First World War. That factory, I seen it built – they talk about modern building methods. Within two years of starting that factory they were making guns in it and within three years there were three lavatories on each floor. There's three blocks, about twelve floors – three lavatories to each floor and in each block there were three lifts, and they were manned night and day, the lavatories and the lifts, by one-armed and one-legged ex-servicemen.
When I look around, they are all gone – dead. All the generation that left school two years in front of me, from Birmingham, they went like that. They went into the army, one day 40,000-50,000 of them. People can't visualise it. We used to see them coming to 1st Southern General Military Hospital. That was what we now call the university. All lads in blue. One arm, one leg. No legs.
The things that happened after the war were out of this world. It was stupid. I was working at that time at the B.S.A.. November 11th, all the flags came up. We were out for the day to enjoy ourselves. November 12th, we couldn't get into the factory, we were sacked. On Armistice Day I went home happy. "The war's over, Dad". My father was dying in bed and he cried. He said: "They should have gone in and smashed 'em up" he says "This'll happen again". I can remember those words, but I didn't care. The war was over. We went back to work the following day. There was no work for us. Every contract was cancelled – bang like that.
They told us to sign on the labour – they had only just started these things. They had taken over Sparkhill library and there was a queue right down to Stratford Road, and the tail end of the queue was playing football in the park. That was the end of everything, you know, to me.
During the First World War, as a youth, I was upset about the Germans, because we knew for a fact that they were boiling bodies down and using the fat to make candles. Now the real truth was that they were doing exactly the same that we ourselves were doing. If burial became too much of a problem, burn them. We'd done exactly the same as they did. But the newspapers brought this racket about they were doing it to get the fat to make candles, and it made it seem much worse. Mind you, we've used napalm and God knows what to burn civilians and that, but the newspapers have never sort of brought out the bad part of it, because we weren't burning them to make candles – we were just burning them to kill them.
No, why I was in the army, really, nothing to do with patriotism. I thought, as a good many more thought, if war broke out…You could smell it a mile off, you could see it coming, because between us and Germany, it's family business as well, like. The Royals were just as much mixed up in this battle as we were. Jealousy between the Royal Families, and that was handed down. Jealousy between the manufacturers. Jealousy between the working class, and all that. All built up by the newspapers.
Tom Morris, 94 Westley Road
When I first came up to Acocks Green, the First World War was in progress, and I decided I didn't want to go as far as town to work. I got a job at the James Cycle Company in Greet on the universal miller. You were cutting metal. The firm then were producing 4.5 shells, eighteen pound shells, that's the cast iron ones, also hand grenades, Mills grenades. We produced the drills for making these on the universal miller, and it took rather a lot of calculations. You were expected to work that out yourself. They didn't come round and do your homework for you. You had to do it.
I volunteered for the munitions volunteer scheme, and they drafted me to Brook Tool. Which was quite near and a much more interesting class of work, but after that they shot me off to Coventry, and I didn't want to go. This firm in Coventry was making "hemming" magnetos, that's what they were called. Now our usual inept form of government, we were stuck, and completely stuck, for magnetos for aircraft engines, which were made in Coventry. Quite a big place there – Armstrong Whitworth – they couldn't get steel for the magnets for the magnetos. There was a lot of hoo-haa about it and our firm turned up at the Ministry of Supply, and said: "please, we want some work, or we shall have to shut down" – "What do you do?" We said: "We make cobalt steel for the Germans to make magnetos", and that's how we proceeded in that war. I made myself so unpopular with the Manager that he let me go, and I came back to the Whitworth Works, which was in Reddings Lane, near enough Acocks Green, and which had just started up again. I worked as a universal miller in the toolroom turning out ball bearings for the general war effort.
I stayed there until the end of the war. I remember Armistice Day on the 11th of November. At 11 o'clock in the morning they let off maroons. They went off and we all came out, marched out. Left the whole place. Not a soul, and we started our celebrations. However, we struck a bad patch then, with no work and very little unemployment money. If I remember rightly, I used to get 18/6d per week unemployed money, and I had to go every day and report to Waverley Road Small Heath. Sign on to show you were unemployed. No chance of any fiddles. There was no chance of any jobs.
We had queues for food, very primitive blackout. I can remember the Zeppelins coming over. They didn't do any harm to use, but I remember standing outside and seeing the airships. Aeroplanes were very few and far between.
Miss Adams, 97 Westley Road
The spirit of Acocks Green in the First World War was of a really wonderful community. The churches weren't empty of people, but they were empty of youth.
However, my eldest brother was at the university at the time, and it was discovered he had a heart condition, and no one would accept into the Forces in any shape or form. And someone did the cruel thing in those days, of sending white feathers. A white feather meant you were a coward. I remember the morning it came. He showed it to mother and he cried. He said: "I'll go and enlist". Mother said: "You'll not enlist, laddie because they won't accept you. It's no good". And he was crying on my mother's shoulder, a lad of eighteen. And he went into hospital shortly after that. They said go and get it controlled and right, and we'll accept you afterwards. And I always remember that morning. If you thought someone was being a coward and shirking, and their boys had gone…there's always horrible people, even in those days. He was studying medicine. He was eight weeks in the old Queens Hospital, which was in Bath Row. He'd been there as a student and he went there as a patient. He was studying all the time he was in hospital. As soon as he got his second qualification he went into the Navy as a Surgeon Lieutenant. My other two brothers also went into the Forces.
Fred Cowan Senior in uniform on the right. He and his son ran Fred's Cafe on the Green
A lady sits by a bomb crater at Lakey Lane, caused by a Zeppelin raid
A bomb crater in a field belonging to Gospel Farm, April 1918. Hauptmann Kuno Manger's Zeppelin L62 attacked Birmingham on 12 April, but he turned back after facing anti-aircraft fire before reaching the city centre, and dropped a 300kg bomb here. (Thanks to Joe McKenna for this information.)
James Neville Marshall V.C.
The Marshall family were well known in Acocks Green for running Eastbourne House school for many years. Their brother was a controversial figure because of the manner in which he won his Victoria Cross. Both Christian names James and John were used to refer to him.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/johnchess2/8642211731/ (photo of the whole grave)
http://www.wilfredowen.org.uk/virtual-tour/a-band-of-friends- (photo of the gravestone)
http://www.thegreatwar1914-1918.com/VC-Recipients-1918.html (an opportunity to buy a commemorative mug)
ST. MARY'S CHURCH: IN HONOUR OF THE MEN WHO FELL IN THE WAR 1914 – 1919 (a photograph of these names on the board in the church can be found below)
H. AITKEN
T.W.E. ALLMAN
H. ARCULUS
E.T. BAILEY
G. BAILEY
F. BANNING
H. BEECH
E.W. BENNETT
M. BEVAN
C. BIMROSE
E.E. BLAND
G.F. BOCOCK
L.H. BOTT
W. BROUGHTON
J.A. BROWN
A.J. BRYANT
E.E. CARTER
J. CATTELL
W.R. CLARKE
J. CLARKSON
S. COOK
A.L. COOPER
L. DAVIS
L.S. DAVIS
C.L. DARBY
E.W. DAW
E.M. DENHAM
W. DOBSON
J. DUNN
J. EASTWOOD
J.G. EDWARDS
H.H. EDWARDS
A.E. ELSE
J.H. ELVINS
J.H. EVANS
J.W. EVANS
W.A. FOX
T. FOWLER
W. FRANKCOM
H.M. GABRIEL
W. GOODYEAR
H.E. HANSON
H. HARRISON
W.H. HARVEY
W.D. HOWLE
P.C. HUGHES
W.H. HUTCHINS
T.H. LAKE
F.C. LAMB
E.F. MALINS
J.M.F. MASON
A.H. MAULLIN
S.A. MILLS
P.L. MITCHELL
S.H. MOON
F. MOORE
H.P. MOORE
J. MORRIS
L.V. MUNN
S. NORMAN
A.J. PAINTING
H.G. PERKINS
H.D. PHILLIPS
E.D. POLLARD
A.T. REW
B. SEDDON
T.W. SEYMOUR
J.W.G. SMITH
W.B. SMITH
A. J. STEDMAN
H.G. TAYLOR
H. TETLEY
A.S. THATCHER
A. TIMMINS
A.G. TOMPKINS
S.A. TUSTIN
J. WALTON
A. WARREN
L. WATERS
LESLIE WATERS
L.V. WHEELER
A. WORTHINGTON
W.E. WRIGHT
W.H. YEANDLE
F.D. YOUNG
Part of the Roll of Honour in St. Mary's church. Thanks to Revd. Andrew Bullock
Inside St. Mary's there is also a Roll of Honour for Wellesbourne School. These are the names: below is a copy of the plaques.
Beaufort, H.
Biddle, J.E.
Brown, D.
Brown, L.
Drummond, W.
Else, A.E.
Hackett, H.O.
Hanson, T.R.
Hobday, C.L.
Hoskins, C.
Jones, H.B.
Lagarde, H.
Moore, F.
Nickson, C.R.
Nickson, S.O.
Pollard, E.
Phillips, H.D.
Sanders, J.
Tetley, H.
Tustin, S.A.
Waters, L.
Wheeler, W.P.
The Methodist church also has a Roll of Honour. We have reproduced the World War One section from Margaret Bryan's history of the church, which is digitised on this website:
In December, 1914, the Belmont Row Home Messenger Circuit Magazine listed volunteers from Acocks Green Wesleyan church who had joined H.M. Forces:
Brown, Lowson. Canadian Royal Rifles.
Brown, Charles Jabez. 1st. B'ham Batt. Royal Warwicks.
Brown, George Henry. 6th Royal Warwicks.
Brown, Phillip Harold. 6th Royal Warwicks.
Booker, Raymond. 1st. B'ham Batt. Royal. Warwicks.
Brooker, George A. 5th Royal Sussex.
Egerton, A.C. 1st. B'ham Batt. Royal Warwicks.
Letts, Frank. 6th Royal Warwicks.
Martin, Percy Talmage. Oxford & Bucks. Light Infantry.
Mullins, Wilfred. Queen's Own Worcester Hussars.
Pardoe, Herbert Harry. Royal Field Artillery.
Pardoe, Percy F.W. 13th Royal Warwicks. 3rd Batt.
Watts, Norman. 8th Royal Warwicks.
After the 1st World War a memorial tablet was placed in church recording the names of all those who fought for their country:
Acocks Green Wesleyan Church. Roll of Honour: The Great War: 1914 – 1918:
Adams, A.G. *
Bailey, C.V.
Ball, H.
Bell, B.
Bellamy, A.R.
Booker, R.A.
Bournboneaux, J.H.
Brown, C.J.
Brown, L. *
Brooker, G.A.
Brown, G.H.
Brown, P.H.
Cutler, G.N.
Cutler, H.
Cutler, H.H.
Cutler, J.H.
Daw, E. *
Egerton, A.C.
Edgworth, H.
Ensell, P,A.S.
Garlick, R.C.
Jones, E.
Laws, H.V.
Letts, F.B.
Lowe, F.B.
Malins, E.F. *
Marshall, S.H.
Martin, A.S.
Martin, P.T.
Maullin, E.
Mitchell, A.T.
Oliver, H. Edward.
Pardoe, G.S. *
Pardoe, H.H.
Pardoe, P.F.W.
Pagett, W.
Robinson, R.G.
Roberts, G.A.
Seal, E.
Seal, H.
Seal, W.
Shipway, S.H.
Sutton, H.B.
Turley, Walter
Walker, J.H.
Watts, Norman.
Whittle, E.
*Killed in action or died whilst serving their country.
Of two of the men who did not return from the Great War, G.S. Pardoe died of fever whilst serving in Ireland. No record can be traced of A.G. Adams.
The Roman Catholic church in Acocks Green, Sacred Heart and Holy Souls, has a Roll of Honour in the porch. In fact, the Parish when founded had been dedicated to the Sacred heart of Jesus for the Deliverance of the Holy Souls in Purgatory. The First World War made Father Gibbons determined that the new church should be a memorial to and a shrine of prayer for the victims of the War.
Army Chaplain Canon Gwyder O.S.B.
Aide-Major Jean Deramecourt (Croix de Guerre)
Captain Shirley C. Day (M.C.)
Captain E.J. Hugh Meynell (M.C.)
Lieut. Henry E. Bulbeck R.F.
Lieut. Bernard Ward Devas
Lieut. Charles J. Howell
Lieut. Basil R. Jones R.A.F.
Lieut. Oscar R. Kelly
Lieut. Vincent Narey B.A.
Lieut. Lawrence H. Ruck
2nd. Engineer Bernard Seddon
C.S.M. Horace H. Bowden
S.S.M. Thomas Cooper
Corporal J.T. Jones
L. Corporal Robert Moore
George F. Andrewes
Charles W. Assinder
John P. Driscoll
Francis M. Driscoll
Victor S. Galway Foley
"Longton Lads"
Walter F.J. Murphy
Philip M. Murphy
Cyril H. Murphy
William Narey
Herbert Newsham
Philip G. Powell
Walter Gossage
Edward Sharkey
John Vallance
Acocks Green Baptist church, like the Methodist church, has a wider-ranging list inside the church. Here the list identifies not only those killed but those disabled in service, and is also an acknowledgment of all members who fought. Below is a list of those killed, then a photo of the memorial and a copy of the complete list.
Evans, James H.
Harrison, Howard
Mitchell, Arthur
Smith, J.W.G.
Smith, Murray T.
Whiting, Philip
Williams, William
Acocks Green Baptist church names
Baptist names.doc
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The list below of men killed in the Great War has been compiled from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website in order to find people not mentioned in the above lists. We have searched under the terms Acocks's Green and Acocks Green. There are nearly ninety records. We are aware it is incomplete (for example not all the Methodist or St. Mary's church names are present) and would welcome any additional records. Fuller information, including the association of the deceased with Acocks Green, is shown in the records below. Sometimes parts of the records are not available on the CWGC website, and a gap has been left in these cases.
Formatting of records
Line 1: surname, forename, initials, age honours/awards date of death
Line 2: rank regiment unit/ship/squadron
Line 3: country service number cemetery memorial grave reference
Line 4: additional information
AITKEN, HARRY H 37 14/11/1918
Gunner Royal Garrison Artillery 98th Anti-Aircraft Sect.
Greece '106821' KIRECHKOI-HORTAKOI MILITARY CEMETERY 453
HUSBAND OF CLARA AITKEN, OF 27, FRANCIS RD., ACOCK'S GREEN, BIRMINGHAM.
ALLMAN, THOMAS HARRY EVERARD T H E 24 23/07/1916
Lance Corporal Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry 1st Bn.
France '12403' THIEPVAL MEMORIAL Pier and Face 6 B.
SON OF GEORGE AND MARY ALLMAN, OF 150, YARDLEY RD., ACOCKS GREEN, BIRMINGHAM.
ARCULUS, HERBERT H 21 26/09/1916
Lance Corporal Royal Warwickshire Regiment 16th Bn.
France '16/1056' A.I.F. BURIAL GROUND, FLERS V. C. 28.
SON OF FRANCIS EDWIN AND HELENA FLORENCE ARCULUS, OF "THE GLEN", HAZELWOOD RD., ACOCK'S GREEN, BIRMINGHAM.
ASSINDER, CHARLES WILLIAM C W 31/10/1914
Private Royal Warwickshire Regiment 2nd Bn.
Belgium '1126' YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL Panel 8.
SON OF CHARLES AND MARY ELIZABETH ASSINDER, OF "ROSE COTTAGE," WARWICK RD., ACOCK'S GREEN, BIRMINGHAM.
BANKS, FRANCIS HUBERT F H 29 10/04/1916
Corporal Royal Warwickshire Regiment 9th Bn.
Iraq '4137' AMARA WAR CEMETERY XXII. C. 2.
SON OF MR. G. H. AND MRS. S. A. BANKS, OF 44, MAYFIELD RD., ACOCK'S GREEN, BIRMINGHAM.
BAYLEY, GILBERT G 28 09/08/1915
Serjeant South Staffordshire Regiment 7th Bn.
Turkey (including Gallipoli) '7491' HELLES MEMORIAL Panel 134 to 136.
SON OF MARY ANN SMITH (FORMERLY BAYLEY), OF 26, YARDLEY RD., ACOCK'S GREEN, BIRMINGHAM, AND THE LATE FREDERICK WILLIAM BAYLEY.
BENNETT, ERNEST WILLIAM E W 24 14/05/1918
Gunner Royal Field Artillery"X" 18th T.M. Bty.
France '135595' ANNOIS COMMUNAL CEMETERY I. C. 5.
SON OF MR. W. AND MRS. E. BENNETT, OF SPRING RD., ACOCK'S GREEN, BIRMINGHAM.
BIDDLE, JOHN EVELYN J E 23/04/1917
Private Royal Warwickshire Regiment 11th Bn.
France '781' ARRAS MEMORIAL Bay 3.
SON OF FRANK HERBERT AND EVELYN DORA BIDDLE, OF THE PHARMACY, WARWICK RD., OLTON, ACOCK'S GREEN, BIRMINGHAM. (Wellesbourne school)
BLAKE, JOSEPH ROBERT J R 19 08/10/1915
Private Royal Fusiliers 2nd Bn.
Greece 'L/16265' PORTIANOS MILITARY CEMETERY V. B. 102.
BORN AT ACOCK'S GREEN, BIRMINGHAM. SON OF JOSEPH AND MABEL BLAKE, OF 40, VICARAGE RD., WOLVERHAMPTON.
BLAND, ERNEST EDWARD E E 19 17/09/1916
Lance Corporal King's Royal Rifle Corps 21st Bn.
France 'Y/1051' THIEPVAL MEMORIAL Pier and Face 13 A and 13 B.
SON OF WILLIAM EDWARD AND MARY ANN BLAND, OF 44, FRANCIS RD., ACOCK'S GREEN, BIRMINGHAM. ENLISTED, AUG., 1914.
BROCKINGTON, THOMAS WILLIAM T W 21 12/09/1916
Private Middlesex Regiment 23rd Bn.
France 'F/2247' SERRE ROAD CEMETERY No.2XXXV. J. 12.
SON OF WILLIAM ERNEST THOMAS BROCKINGTON AND ELIZABETH CHARLOTTE BROCKINGTON, OF 1288, WARWICK RD., ACOCK'S GREEN, BIRMINGHAM.
BROWN, LOWSON L 26 12/04/1917
Company Sergeant Major Canadian Infantry 44th Bn.
France '622524' VIMY MEMORIAL
SON OF WILLIAM LOWSON BROWN AND AMY BROWN, OF ACOCK'S GREEN, BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND.
CANAVAN, JOHN J 21 18/03/1918
Private Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
SON OF JAMES CANAVAN, OF 27, SUMMER RD., ACOCKS GREEN, BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND, AND THE LATE AUGUSTA CANAVAN.
CARTER, ERNEST EDWIN E E 19 09/04/1918
Gunner Royal Field Artillery "C" Bty. 286th Bde.
Belgium '161990' PLOEGSTEERT MEMORIAL Panel 1.
SON OF GEORGE AND KATE CARTER, OF SHIRLEY RD., ACOCK'S GREEN, BIRMINGHAM.
CASELEY, JAMES DOUGLAS J D 27/07/1916
France '16/1465' THIEPVAL MEMORIAL Pier and Face 9 A 9 B and 10 B.
BROTHER OF HENRY PERCY CASELEY, OF 170, NEW AVENUE, ACOCKS GREEN, BIRMINGHAM.
CATTELL, JOSEPH J 20 05/11/1916
Corporal Worcestershire Regiment 2nd Bn.
France '13732' THIEPVAL MEMORIAL Pier and Face 5 A and 6 C.
SON OF HENRY CHARLES AND MARY ANN CATTELL, OF 45, FLORENCE RD., ACOCKS GREEN, BIRMINGHAM.
CLARKE, DOUGLAS WALKER D W 21 25/04/1917
Private Hampshire Regiment 12th Bn.
Greece '13110' DOIRAN MEMORIAL
SON OF WALTER CLARKE, OF "THE ELMS," LINCOLN RD., ACOCKS GREEN, BIRMINGHAM.
COLE, ALFRED A20 01/07/1916
Private Royal Warwickshire Regiment 1st/6th Bn.
France '3182' THIEPVAL MEMORIAL Pier and Face 9 9 B and 10 B.
SON OF MRS. ADA COLE, OF 39, FRANCIS RD., ACOCK'S GREEN, BIRMINGHAM.
COOPER, ARTHUR LLEWELLYN A L 20 19/03/1918
Private Royal Army Medical Corps 6th Field Amb
France '42922' MONT HUON MILITARY CEMETERY, LE TREPORT V. F. 4B.
SON OF JOHN AND MARY ELIZABETH COOPER, OF ACOCK'S GREEN, BIRMINGHAM.
DARBY, CHARLES LESLIE C L 25 18/11/1918
Private Royal Army Medical Corps 51st Field Amb.
France '42433' CAUDRY BRITISH CEMETERY I. E. 12.
SON OF CHARLES HENRY AND MARY ELIZA DARBY, OF 123, ALEXANDER RD., ACOCKS GREEN, BIRMINGHAM.
DAVIS, LESLIE SANSOME L S 22 30/09/1918
Second Lieutenant Royal Air Force 92nd Sqdn.
France PROSPECT HILL CEMETERY, GOUY III. A. 2.
SON OF WILLIAM SANSOME DAVIS AND HELEN E. DAVIS, OF ACOCK'S GREEN, BIRMINGHAM. ENLISTED AUGUST, 1914. COMMISSIONED IN R.F.A., 1917.
DAW, ERNEST WILLIAM E W 19 26/10/1917
Belgium '24348' TYNE COT MEMORIAL Panel 23 to 28 and 163A.
SON OF ERNEST WILLIAM AND ALICE DAW, OF 1108, WARWICK RD., ACOCK'S GREEN, BIRMINGHAM.
DENHAM, ERIC MARK E M 22 02/05/1918
Air Mechanic 2nd Class Royal Air Force (Felixstowe)
United Kingdom '220676' BIRMINGHAM (YARDLEY) CEMETERY A. 6961.
SON OF MR. E. J. AND MRS. F. E. DENHAM, OF 73, OXFORD RD., ACOCK'S GREEN, BIRMINGHAM.
DINGLEY, FRED F 33 31/10/1918
Private Lancashire Fusiliers 18th Bn.
Belgium '40989' HARLEBEKE NEW BRITISH CEMETERY II. A. 12.
SON OF ALFRED AND HARRIET DINGLEY; HUSBAND OF FLORENCE MARY DINGLEY, OF 134, OXFORD RD., ACOCKS GREEN, BIRMINGHAM. BORN AT HANDSWORTH.
DRUMMOND, WILLIAM W 22 27/01/1915
Lance Corporal London Regiment (London Scottish)1st/14th Bn.
France '1889' BOULOGNE EASTERN CEMETERY III. B. 76.
SON OF H. M. DRUMMOND, OF 3, ELLERSLIE RD., TUEBROOK, LIVERPOOL, AND THE LATE D. K. DRUMMOND, OF BIRMINGHAM. NATIVE OF ACOCKS GREEN, BIRMINGHAM.
DUNN, JOSEPH J 29 13/10/1914
Lance Corporal Royal Warwickshire Regiment 1st Bn.
France '8996' METEREN MILITARY CEMETERY III. L. 883. (Buried near this spot.).
SON OF MR. AND MRS. GEORGE DUNN, OF 239, LINCOLN RD., ACOCK'S GREEN, BIRMINGHAM.
DUNN, ROBERT R 30 08/11/1914
Private Northumberland Fusiliers 1st Bn.
Belgium '7749' YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL Panel 8 and 12.
SON OF SARAH ANN DUNN, OF 239, LINCOLN RD., ACOCK'S GREEN; HUSBAND OF FANNY LUCY DUNN, OF 10, HAZELWOOD RD., ACOCKS GREEN, BIRMINGHAM.
EDWARDS, GERRARD J G 19 27/09/1915
Private Seaforth Highlanders 9th Bn.
France '5298' BETHUNE TOWN CEMETERY IV. E. 15.
SON OF THOMAS WILLIAM AND MARIAN MARSHALL EDWARDS, OF "THE COTTAGE," FLINT GREEN RD., ACOCK'S GREEN, BIRMINGHAM.
EDWARDS, HENRY HUMPHERSON H H 19 25/10/1918
Germany '36204' COLOGNE SOUTHERN CEMETERY VII. E. 2.
SON OF JOHN AND MARY ANN EDWARDS, OF 194, YARDLEY RD., ACOCK'S GREEN, BIRMINGHAM.
ELSE A E 21 14/10/1918
Private Army Service Corps
Belgium 'M/315985' LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY XXX. E. 13.
SON OF JOHN WILLIAM AND FLORENCE ELSE, OF OAKHURST, OXFORD RD., ACOCK'S GREEN, BIRMINGHAM.
ENGLAND, HORACE H 19 20/09/1917
Rifleman King's Royal Rifle Corps 11th Bn.
Belgium 'R/36918' POELCAPELLE BRITISH CEMETERY XLVIII. C. 12.
SON OF ALFRED JOSEPH AND CLARA LOUISE ENGLAND, OF THE HOLLIES, 3, SHERBOURNE RD., ACOCKS GREEN, BIRMINGHAM.
EVANS, JAMES HAVARD J H 21 M M 11/09/1916
Private Royal Warwickshire Regiment "A" Coy. 15th Bn.
France '15/503' MONT HUON MILITARY CEMETERY, LE TREPORT II. F. 13.
SON OF JAMES H. AND LUCY EVANS, OF ACOCK'S GREEN, BIRMINGHAM.
EVANS, JOHN WILLIAM J W 22 13/04/1918
Lance Corporal Coldstream Guards 3rd Bn.
France '17781' MERVILLE COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION II. D. 21.
SON OF JOHN AND SARAH EVANS, OF 16, WESTFIELD RD., ACOCK'S GREEN, BIRMINGHAM, NATIVE OF WARRINGTON.
FOWLER, THOMAS T 20 23/03/1918
Corporal Wiltshire Regiment 1st Bn.
France '33149' ARRAS MEMORIAL Bay 7.
SON OF THOMAS HENRY AND MARY ELIZABETH FOWLER, OF 8, SHAFTMOOR LANE, ACOCKS GREEN, BIRMINGHAM.
GEEN, CLIFFORD C 19 02/08/1918
Private East Surrey Regiment 8th Bn.
France '5316' VIGNACOURT BRITISH CEMETERY IV. E. 2.
SON OF HENRY GEEN, OF 1, WHARFDALE RD., ACOCKS GREEN, BIRMINGHAM.
HANSON, HERBERT EDWARD H E 20 29/08/1918
Gunner Royal Field Artillery "B" Bty. 121st Bde.
France '162769' GUARDS' CEMETERY, LESBOEUF SII. B. 2.
SON OF EDWARD AND EMMA MARY HANSON, OF 85, ALEXANDER RD., ACOCK'S GREEN, BIRMINGHAM.
HARVEY, WALTER HERBERT W H 20 11/08/1918
Serjeant Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) 32nd Coy.
France '14295' VIS-EN-ARTOIS MEMORIAL Panel 10.
SON OF MR. AND MRS. HARVEY, OF 6, BOTTEVILLE RD., ACOCK'S GREEN, BIRMINGHAM.
HEXTALL, W 27 08/08/1916
Belgium 'R/2785' ESSEX FARM CEMETERY III. D. 4.
SON OF SAMUEL JOHN AND SARAH HEXTALL OF 100, OXFORD RD., ACOCK'S GREEN, BIRMINGHAM.
HOWLE, WALTER DOUGLAS W D 32 17/10/1917
Private South Wales Borderers 4th Bn.
Iraq '27525' BASRA MEMORIAL Panel 16 and 62.
SON OF ELLEN HOWLE, OF 110, ARDEN RD., ACOCK'S GREEN, BIRMINGHAM, AND THE LATE ROBERT HOWLE.
HUGHES, CHARLES HENRY C H 21 04/06/1916
France '15/414' FAUBOURG D'AMIENS CEMETERY, ARRASI. D. 1.
SON OF MRS. C. HUGHES, OF "PARKSTONE," WARWICK RD., ACOCK'S GREEN, BIRMINGHAM.
HUGHES, PERCY CAYNTON P C 28 03/10/1918 Second Lieutenant Royal Welsh Fusiliers 3rd Bn.
Greece KARASOULI MILITARY CEMETERY C. 623.
YOUNGEST SON OF PETER AND MARY HUGHES, OF 235, DOUGLAS RD., ACOCK'S GREEN, BIRMINGHAM.
HULSTON, EDWIN HERBERT E H 19 19/10/1918
Signalman Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve H.M.S. "Plumpton."
Belgium 'Z/10138' OOSTENDE NEW COMMUNAL CEMETERY B. 23.
SON OF GEORGE AND EMMA HULSTON, OF 161, LINCOLN RD., ACOCK'S GREEN, BIRMINGHAM.
HUTCHINS, WILLIAM HENRY W H 29 18/04/1915
Serjeant King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry 2nd Bn.
Belgium '3/3469' YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL Panel 47.
SON OF JOSEPH AND SELINA HUTCHINS, OF 192, YARDLEY RD., ACOCK'S GREEN, BIRMINGHAM. INSPECTOR OF POLICE, FEDERATED MALAY STATES. RE-ENLISTED, DEC., 1914.
INSTONE, EDWIN LLOYD E L 30 04/08/1917
Second Lieutenant South Staffordshire Regiment 7th Bn.
Belgium ROESELARE COMMUNAL CEMETERY II. H. 3.
SON OF JOHN LLOYD INSTONE AND SARAH INSTONE, OF EDGBASTON, BIRMINGHAM; HUSBAND OF CONSTANCE ANNIE INSTONE, OF 26, YARDLEY RD., ACOCK'S GREEN, BIRMINGHAM.
LAKE, T H 21 28/03/1918
Private Machine Gun Corps 63rd Bn.
France '73377' ST. HILAIRE CEMETERY, FREVENT V. C. 10.
SON OF LILLIAN JOYCE HELEN LAKE, OF 33, FRANCIS RD., ACOCKS GREEN, BIRMINGHAM.
LAKE, ARTHUR WILLIAM A W 31 22/08/1918
Driver Royal Field Artillery "A" Bty., 175th Bde.
France '33418' FRANVILLERS COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION II. A. 26.
BORN AT ACOCK'S GREEN. SON OF THOMAS AND EMILY LAKE, OF 15, TARRY RD., SALTLEY, BIRMINGHAM; HUSBAND OF MYRA MARGARET LAKE, OF 7, KIMBERLEY AVENUE, TARRY RD., SALTLEY, BIRMINGHAM.
LAMB, T F C 17 01/07/1918
Boy Royal Navy H.M.S. Royal Oak
United Kingdom 'J/79089' BIRMINGHAM (YARDLEY) CEMETERY B. 25623.
SON OF MRS. TABITHA ANN LAMB, OF 49, FRANCIS RD., ACOCK'S GREEN, BIRMINGHAM.
LITTLEFORD, HAROLD ALFRED H A 31 05/04/1917
Bombardier Royal Garrison Artillery 196th Siege Bty.
France '105395' ANZIN-ST. AUBIN BRITISH CEMETERY I. A. 3.
SON OF ALFRED THOMAS AND MARY ALICE LITTLEFORD, OF ACOCK'S GREEN, BIRMINGHAM.
MARCHANT, F 23 20/08/1920
Private King's Shropshire Light Infantry
United Kingdom '44512' OLTON FRANCISCAN CEMETERY, SOLIHULL 347.
SON OF ALEXANDER AND CATHERINE MARCHANT, OF 59, BLYTHSWOOD RD., ACOCKS GREEN, BIRMINGHAM.
MALINS, EDWARD FRANCIS E F 19 12/04/1918
Second Lieutenant South Wales Borderers 2nd Bn.
France LA KREULE MILITARY CEMETERY, HAZEBROUCK I. C. 16.
SON OF JOSEPH AND MARY CHARLOTTE MALINS, OF BIRMINGHAM. (St. Mary's and Methodist churches)
MAULLIN, ALBERT HENRY A H 24 27/06/1917
Lance Corporal Army Service Corps 32nd Div. H.Q.
France 'S4/129488' DUNKIRK TOWN CEMETERY I. A. 7.
SON OF ALBERT AND MYRA ANNIE MAULLIN, OF 111, DOUGLAS RD., ACOCK'S GREEN, BIRMINGHAM.
MEE, EDWARD REED E R 13/09/1916
Private 1st Canadian Mounted Rifles Battalion
France '152891' ALBERT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION I. N. 16.
SON OF THE LATE JAMES ISAAC AND EMILY MEE. BORN AT ACOCK'S GREEN, ENGLAND.
MILLS, SAMUEL ARNOLD S A 18 04/02/1918
Signalman Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve S.S. "Treveal."
United Kingdom 'Bristol/Z/10353' PLYMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL 30.
SON OF SAMUEL MILLS, OF 31, VICTORIA RD., ACOCKS GREEN, BIRMINGHAM.
MITCHELL, PHILIP LEONARD P L 22 03/06/1915
Corporal Canadian Infantry 10th Bn.
United Kingdom '81600' BIRMINGHAM (YARDLEY) CEMETERY B. 7630.
SON OF HENRY AND CLARA MITCHELL, OF 26, SHIRLEY RD., ACOCK'S GREEN, BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND.
MOORE, FREDERICK F 22 03/07/1917
Second Lieutenant Royal Flying Corps 4th Sqdn.
Belgium LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY XIII. A. 7.
ONLY SON OF FREDERICK AND ROSE MOORE, OF 2, MALVERN RD., ACOCK'S GREEN, BIRMINGHAM.
MOORE, ROBERT R 42 24/04/1918
Lance Corporal Australian Infantry, A.I.F. 10th Bn.
France '1992' METEREN MILITARY CEMETERY V. B. 591.
SON OF JOHN AND ELLEN MOORE, OF 290, NEW AVENUE, ACOCK'S GREEN, BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND. NATIVE OF BIRMINGHAM.
MORRIS, JOHN J 20 03/08/1916
France '1248' ST. SEVER CEMETERY, ROUEN B. 36. 12.
SON OF JOHN AND ELIZA MORRIS, OF 186, YARDLEY RD., ACOCK'S GREEN, BIRMINGHAM.
NEWMAN, SIDNEY S 30 25/05/1918
Private Royal Berkshire Regiment 5th Bn.
France '202677' ACHEUX BRITISH CEMETERY Plot 1. Row D. Grave 5.
HUSBAND OF FLORENCE MAUD NEWMAN, OF 4, GROVE AVENUE, ACOCKS GREEN, BIRMINGHAM.
NOLAN, JAMES J 30 12/05/1917
Rifleman King's Royal Rifle Corps 5th Bn.
United Kingdom 'R/29864' NECHELLS (ST. JOSEPH) ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCHYARD North.
HUSBAND OF M. A. DOYLE (FORMERLY NOLAN), OF 266, POOL FARM RD., ACOCK'S GREEN, BIRMINGHAM.
PAINTING, ARTHUR JAMES A J 24 05/12/1916
Private King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry 8th Bn.
Belgium '11960' HOP STORE CEMETERY Plot I. Row E. Grave 31.
SON OF FREDERICK AND AMY PAINTING, OF 218, YARDLEY RD., ACOCKS GREEN, BIRMINGHAM.
PHILLIPS, WILLIAM JOHN W J 25 05/10/1915
Serjeant Royal Field Artillery "A" Bty. 74th Bde.
France '30666' LOOS MEMORIAL Panel 3.
SON OF WILLIAM JOHN PHILLIPS, OF 272, NEW AVENUE, ACOCK'S GREEN, BIRMINGHAM; HUSBAND OF BEATRICE PHILLIPS, OF 17, HALL COTTAGES, HALL GREEN, WEST BROMWICH.
PRICE, WILLIAM W 32 29/09/1915
Lance Corporal King's Royal Rifle Corps 1st Bn.
France 'R/8190' LOOS MEMORIAL Panel 101 and 102.
SON OF JOHN AND MARY PRICE, OF 288, GOLDEN HILLOCK RD., SMALL HEATH; HUSBAND OF FLORENCE MINNIE CRATHORN (FORMERLY PRICE), OF 194, DOUGLAS RD., ACOCK'S GREEN, BIRMINGHAM.
SEDDON, BERNARD B 25 19/02/1918
Third Engineer Mercantile Marine S.S. "Beacon Light"
(Liverpool) United Kingdom TOWER HILL MEMORIAL.
SON OF JOSEPH AND CECILIA SEDDON, OF 41, SHIRLEY RD., ACOCKS GREEN, BIRMINGHAM. BORN AT SHEFFIELD.
SIMMONDS, GUY BLOXHAM G B 29 29/12/1916
Second Lieutenant Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) 86th Coy. 5th Bn.
France ST. PIERRE CEMETERY, AMIENS VI. B. 6.
SON OF WILLIAM HENRY AND AMY SIMMONDS, OF HOBART, TASMANIA. JOINED PUBLIC SCHOOLS BN. (16TH MIDDLESEX) ON THE OUTBREAK OF WAR AS PRIVATE. BORN AT ACOCKS GREEN, WORCS.
SKIDMORE, WILLIAM W 22 21/09/1917
Private Gloucestershire Regiment 8th Bn.
Belgium '15938' TYNE COT MEMORIAL Panel 72 to 75.
SON OF FREDERICK WILLIAM AND ELLEN SKIDMORE, OF 43, BROAD RD., ACOCK'S GREEN, BIRMINGHAM.
SMITH, JOHN WILMSHURST GRANGER J W G 24 31/08/1916
Captain South Staffordshire Regiment 1st Bn.
France THIEPVAL MEMORIAL Pier and Face 7 B.
SON OF JOHN GRANGER SMITH AND FRANCES ANNE SMITH, OF 38, SHIRLEY RD., ACOCKS GREEN, BIRMINGHAM.
SMITH, FRANK F 30 13/08/1916
Corporal Australian Infantry, A.I.F. 14th Bn.
France '3496' VILLERS-BRETONNEUX MEMORIAL.
SON OF EMMA SMITH, OF 757, WARWICK RD., ACOCK'S GREEN, BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND, AND THE LATE EDWIN SMITH.
SMITH, SIDNEY GEORGE S G 51 V D, T D 08/10/1917
Lieutenant Colonel Hampshire Regiment 7th Bn.
Iraq BAGHDAD (NORTH GATE) WAR CEMETERY XX. K. 8.
SON OF GEORGE FABIAN SMITH AND SARAH LOUISE SMITH; HUSBAND OF KATE FRANCES SMITH, OF ORMIDALE, REDHILL HEIGHTS, BOURNEMOUTH. BORN AT ACOCK'S GREEN, BIRMINGHAM.
SMITH, WALTER JOSEPH W J 25 25/09/1915
Private Gloucestershire Regiment 10th Bn.
France '16048' LOOS MEMORIAL Panel 60 to 64.
SON OF MRS. EMMA SMITH, OF 219, SPRING RD., ACOCK'S GREEN, BIRMINGHAM.
STEADMAN, ALFRED JAMES A J 25 05/10/1917
Belgium '705' TYNE COT MEMORIAL Panel 23 to 28 and 163A.
SON OF THE LATE WILLIAM AND MARY ANN STEADMAN, OF 63, LINCOLN RD., ACOCK'S GREEN, BIRMINGHAM.
SWIFT, RICHARD NEVILLE R N 25 M M 23/10/1918
Private Royal Warwickshire Regiment 8th Bn.
United Kingdom '305078' BIRMINGHAM (LODGE HILL) CEMETERY B8. 338.
SON OF MR. AND MRS. PHILIP SWIFT, OF SHAMROCK COTTAGE, GREENWOOD RD., ACOCKS GREEN, BIRMINGHAM.
TABBERNER, SIDNEY VICTOR S V 32 27/11/1918
United Kingdom '21321' BIRMINGHAM (YARDLEY) CEMETERY A. 14571.
SON OF THE LATE WILLIAM TABBERNER, OF ACOCK'S GREEN, BIRMINGHAM; HUSBAND OF EDITH TABBERNER, OF SHELSLEY BEAUCHAMP, WORCS.
THOMPSON, A W H 24 11/07/1918
Private Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry 7th Bn.
United Kingdom '15397' SMETHWICK (UPLANDS) CEMETERY Screen Wall. 16. CE.C 6516.
SON OF MRS. M. E. THOMPSON, OF 68, GOSPEL LANE, ACOCKS GREEN, BIRMINGHAM, AND THE LATE MR. J. W. THOMPSON.
TIMMS, WILLIAM W 32 11/12/1916
Private Gloucestershire Regiment 2nd Bn.
Greece '24181' STRUMA MILITARY CEMETERY VIII. A. 14.
HUSBAND OF HELEN TIMMS, OF 1, STATION RD., ACOCKS GREEN, BIRMINGHAM.
TOMPKINS, ALBERT GEORGE A G 21 31/08/1916
Private South Staffordshire Regiment 1st Bn.
SON OF JOHN TOMPKINS, OF 175, SPRING RD., ACOCK'S GREEN, BIRMINGHAM.
TUSTIN, SYDNEY ARTHUR S A 24 06/08/1916
United Kingdom '313' BIRMINGHAM (YARDLEY) CEMETERY A. 4304.
SON OF MARY TUSTIN, OF 21, OXFORD RD., ACOCK'S GREEN, BIRMINGHAM.
VICKERY, WILLIAM ASHLEY W A 29 28/12/1920
Private Australian Infantry, A.I.F. 4th Bn.
United Kingdom '704' BIRMINGHAM (BRANDWOOD END) CEMETERY B. 8. "C." 6.
HUSBAND OF L. M. VICKERY, OF 22, GREENWOOD AVENUE, ACOCKS GREEN, BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND.
WALL, GEORGE REID G R 10/08/1915
Private Worcestershire Regiment 9th Bn.
Turkey (including Gallipoli) '20036' HELLES MEMORIAL Panel 104 to 113.
HUSBAND OF A. A. BENNETT (FORMERLY WALL), OF 175, LINCOLN RD., ACOCK'S GREEN, BIRMINGHAM.
WALTON, JOSEPH J 24 08/12/1915
Belgium 'A/1535' YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL Panel 51 and 53.
SON OF JOSEPH AND ELIZA WALTON, OF 50, STOCKFIELD RD. ACOCK'S GREEN, BIRMINGHAM.
WARD, FRANK CHARLES F C 29 12/09/1918
Able Seaman Royal Navy H.M.S. "Pelican."
United Kingdom 'J/51216' PORTSMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL 29.
HUSBAND OF ANNIE WARD, OF 415, YARDLEY RD., SOUTH YARDLEY, BIRMINGHAM. NATIVE OF ACOCK'S GREEN, BIRMINGHAM.
WARREN, ARCHIBALD A 26 09/05/1915
Rifleman Rifle Brigade 2nd Bn.
Belgium '2580' PLOEGSTEERT MEMORIAL Panel 10.
SON OF JOHN JOSEPH AND BESSIE WARREN, OF 192, NEW AVENUE, ACOCK'S GREEN, BIRMINGHAM.
WATERS, LAWRENCE L 25 02/08/1915
Serjeant Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry 5th Bn.
Belgium '10632' YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL Panel 37 and 39.
SON OF THE LATE ALDERMAN AND MRS. WATERS, OF ACOCK'S GREEN, BIRMINGHAM. HIS BROTHER L. WATERS ALSO FELL.
WHEELER, LESLIE VICTOR L V 23 17/10/1917
Signalman Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve S.S. "Manchuria."
United Kingdom 'Bristol Z/10173' PLYMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL 25.
SON OF ALBERT BENJAMIN AND LOUISA WHEELER, OF 59, YARDLEY RD., ACOCKS GREEN, BIRMINGHAM.
YEANDLE, HENRY WILLIAM H W 30 20/05/1917
Corporal Royal Warwickshire Regiment "C" Coy. 14th Bn.
SON OF ALBERT HENRY AND ANNIE YEANDLE, OF WITLEY LODGE, HATHERLEY, CHELTENHAM; HUSBAND OF MAUD E. YEANDLE, OF "ABBOTSFORD," ACOCK'S GREEN, BIRMINGHAM. EDUCATED AT KING EDWARD'S SCHOOL, BIRMINGHAM.
Also, James Samuel Hopkins, who was born in Acocks Green in 1881, and was killed on 18th August 1916. He is not indexed here, but is mentioned in Solihull Life.


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Now that cheap chardonnay is everywhere, some French winemakers attempt a reinvention
Red grapes at Clos des Vignes du Maynes in the Maconnais region of France. (Harry Annoni/Courtesy Clos de Vignes du Maynes)
By Jon Bonné
A quick two autoroute exits south of the southern end of Burgundy's Cote d'Or and you land in the river town of Tournus, greeted by a tire store and the local McDonald's. This is the start of the Maconnais — not far from the famed heart of Burgundy, but in spirit, a world away.
Once upon a time, when wine largely revolved around France, the Maconnais was a reliable place to find chardonnay. You encountered its wines if you drank something labeled Macon-Villages, Pouilly-Fuisse, Saint-Veran or maybe Vire-Clesse (the last approved in 1999, as the region's fortunes were on the wane). They were fruity and more generous than the often-stoic white wines of northern Burgundy. If they tasted more basic, that was by design.
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For decades, they helped to bulk up the rosters of large Burgundy merchants — bottles that kept shelves full and offered a weeknight drink. Maybe they didn't have the cachet of chablis. But if you wanted a decent chardonnay, touched by the wand of Burgundy, Macon wines were there.
Of course, that world is long gone, which is why I recently found myself back in the Maconnais, trying to figure out what comes next. Chardonnay is grown in nearly every wine-producing country, leaving wines like Macon-Villages without any special flair. They're not cheap enough to compete with the oceans of inoffensive chardonnay from elsewhere. It's understandable why their fortunes waned.
Except that's starting to change. A handful of forward-thinking vintners are overcoming the region's perennial inferiority complex, hoping that it will be seen again, in a different way. They envision a future guided by better, often organic, farming and defined as much by red wine as white. And their white wines largely discard the generic bottles of the past in trade for distinctive wines from specific villages and vineyards. It's an acknowledgment that the region's best parts share the same hillside plantings and limestone soils that made the Cote d'Or so special.
"When you think about the Maconnais, people think of Macon-Villages, of a flat ocean of vines," says Jean-Philippe Bret, who with his brothers Marc-Antoine and Jean-Guillaume created the ascendant Bret Brothers label. "And it's not flat."
Let's stick with geography for a moment, because it explains a lot about the region's mixed fortunes. The city of Macon and surrounding countryside are squeezed in a complicated spot: Burgundy's most famous dirt sits to the north, while to the south lies Beaujolais, whose northern edge touches the southernmost Maconnais towns. Historically, the area's farmers aligned their fortunes more north than south; in the 16th-century era of Louis XIII, historian Roger Dion has pointed out, the Maconnais proclaimed their winemaking "superior in dignity" to their southern neighbors.
Their fortunes largely lay to the north, too. Large Burgundy négociants such as Louis Jadot (but large Beaujolais merchants too) bought a lot of wine from local growers and co-ops to bottle under their own names, enough that relatively few Macon growers bottled wines themselves. The wines became defined by that fruity, anodyne style — often, points out Caroline Gon, with California-like sugar left to soften the wine. "We want a cleaner, more pure style than that," says Gon, who with her husband, Frantz Chagnoleau, is part of the new generation.
These forward-thinking winemakers have watched the white wines of the Cote become rarer and more collectible, while to the south, Beaujolais began enjoying a quality revolution for its red wines. They grew weary of being stuck in between; about 15 years ago, they formed the Artisans Vignerons de Bourgogne du Sud to find a path out of the doldrums.
It was Beaujolais, and its red gamay wines, that provided one hint for a revival. Today, Maconnais red wine, mostly from gamay, has become a new bright spot, partly because gamay is beloved by younger drinkers who may never have drunk a white Macon-Villages. The area's limestone soils, very different from Beaujolais granite, provide brighter flavors and mineral aspects than vineyards to the south. There's also pinot noir that more than holds its own with many basic Cote d'Or reds.
This is less a new twist than history repeating itself. Through the centuries, the Maconnais was predominantly a red-wine region; in 1857, the ampelographer Victor Rendu described it dominated by red grapes (although the best-known villages, including Pouilly and Fuisse, were known for white). As recently as the 1970s, reds accounted for nearly 40 percent of production. But that changed with the white-wine era of the 1980s, and the rise of chardonnay.
So there's a lot riding on wines like Manganite, an old-vine red Mâcon-Cruzille from Julien Guillot at Clos des Vignes du Maynes. Guillot and his family, whose winery is a darling among natural-wine fans, staked their future on a long view of the region. That's not a big surprise: His grandfather Pierre Guillot acquired the property in 1952 and helped to pioneer organic farming in France. And the Clos itself was founded over a millennium ago, by the same Clunisian monks who planted much of the Cote d'Or. But history was less kind to the south.
"They planted Clos de Beze [one of the greatest Burgundy vineyards] in 909, and they planted here in 910, the same monks," Guillot tells me, "and they have the grand cru and we're in generic Bourgogne."
As for white wine, the Maconnais pulled another lesson from their neighbors' success, both north and south — namely, the importance of trading out such generic appellations as Saint-Veran for more distinctive (and expensive) single-vineyard bottles, made with painstaking cellar work. This was already a precept among the region's quality pioneers, including Domaine Valette and J.A. Ferret; today it can be seen in the wines of such younger vintners as Bret Brothers, and its sister label, La Soufrandière, most of which are bottled by individual parcel. Today you don't simply make a Pouilly-Vinzelles, but a Les Quarts or a Les Longeays.
There's also a more literal Burgundy influence. A handful of top Burgundian winemakers have come south, as négociants once did, to establish southern beachheads. This includes the famed Domaine Leflaive of Puligny-Montrachet, which has made a Macon-Verze since 2004, and Dominique Lafon of Meursault, who in 1999 bought a Maconnais property and founded Les Héritiers du Comte Lafon. Lafon — with Gon, who makes his wines (see below) — has largely focused on single vineyards. And both Leflaive and Lafon brought the biodynamic farming they refined on the Cote d'Or.
Is that enough to revive the region's fortunes? Hard to say. Today, an undifferentiated bottle of Pouilly-Fuisse is still nearly $30; single-vineyard bottlings can be even more. And local agricultural organizations have frustrated outsiders' attempts to buy Maconnais land, even Leflaive. They've also been working on a system of premier cru vineyards, much like in the Cote d'Or. On the surface, that seems like a good idea, but the French have a tendency to jump the gun on such endeavors. Is there really a market for premier cru Macon?
Either way, it's time to shelve the old view of wines such as Macon-Villages. If the region doesn't have fancy airs, today it's a place with more faith in its own potential, rather than one marked by insecurity about its neighbors.
Top names to know
These five properties are helping define a new era of quality for the Maconnais. In addition, look for wines from Domaine Valette, Guillot-Broux, Domaine de la Bongran and Jean-Claude Thevenet.
Clos des Vignes du Maynes: Young Julien Guillot has turned this historic property in Cruzille into the model of the new Macon, with a particular focus on red wines, plus some exceptional beaujolais from purchased grapes.
Les Héritiers du Comte Lafon: Top Meursault producer Dominique Lafon takes the same approach as he does on the Cote de Beaune with his single-parcel Macons: farming in biodynamics and bottling such wines as his Les Maranches (on thin soils near the Saone river in Uchizy) or Clos du Four (a midslope planting in Milly-Lamartine).
Frantz Chagnoleau: Chagnoleau and his wife, Caroline Gon, winemaker at Heritiers , created their own small organic domaine in 2010. They've banked on the potential of the unheralded Saint-Veran appellation and shown its potential with such wines as their energetic La Roche, from 75-year-old vines.
Bret Brothers/La Soufrandière: The three Bret brothers control the family domaine in Vinzelles, which produces wines under the Soufrandière label, and buy grapes for their namesake label, both single-parcel Macon such as Pouilly-Fuisse Les Crays and some very good beaujolais.
Domaine du Clos des Rocs: The most prominent property in the tiny appellation of Pouilly-Loche, where Olivier Giroux bottles single-vineyard wines from his own 7 ½ -acre vineyard and other small plots, including Les Mures.
Bonné is the author of "The New Wine Rules" (Ten Speed Press, 2017) and the upcoming "The New French Wine" (Ten Speed Press).
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Ministry of transportation signs new agreements with Italian port system - Daily News Egypt
Business Ministry of transportation signs new agreements with Italian port system
Ministry of transportation signs new agreements with Italian port system
Italian ambassador to Egypt, Cantini, arrived to assume post, played important role to restore relations between both countries
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The Italian Chamber of Commerce in Egypt (CIC), in collaboration with the Italian embassy and the Ministry of Transportation, hosted a group of nine representatives from the Italian Port System, including several Italian ports for a joint conference in Alexandria on Tuesday, sources at the CIC told Daily News Egypt on the condition of anonymity, adding that new agreements were signed over the Italian delegation's visit with the Ministry of Transportation.
Sources noted that major businesspersons, Egyptian cargo firms' representatives, Hisham Arafat, the minister of transportation, the CIC's Chairperson Giancarlo Cifarelli, as well as Alexandria's Governor Abdel Aziz Qonsowa, attended the conference.
Moreover, Italian-Egyptian relations were negatively affected following the murder of the Cambridge postgraduate Italian student Giulio Regeni, 28, who was kidnapped and murdered in Cairo in early 2016.
Italy decided to withdraw its ambassador to Egypt Maurizio Massari following the incident, while Egyptian officials have repeatedly denied any involvement in the murder of Regeni.
In September 2017, the new Italian ambassador to Egypt, Giampaolo Cantini, arrived in Cairo to assume his post after presenting his credentials to President Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi, which played an important role to gradually restore relations between both countries.
On Monday, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi met with Italian parliamentary speaker Roberto Fico in Cairo, as the spokesperson for the Egyptian presidency, Bassam Rady, while Fico met with Egyptian parliamentary speaker Ali Abdel Aal on Sunday in Cairo, to discuss matters of mutual interest.
Abdel Aal highlighted that cases similar to Regini's murder may take time, noting that Egypt vows to cooperate with full transparency with the Italian authorities, which reflects the size and nature of the solid relations between the two countries.
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  def install
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Home Z - Archive seriesBritish F3 The junior success that set Frank Williams on the path to dominate F1
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The junior success that set Frank Williams on the path to dominate F1
by Ida Wood 29 November 2021
written by Ida Wood 29 November 2021
Photos: Team Ikuzawa
Sir Frank Williams' two eponymous companies are best known for their Formula 1 successes, but it was in junior single-seaters where his name first made waves in the motorsport world
From 1964 to 1966, Frank Williams was a budding Formula 3 driver who initially ran himself and then drove for Jochen Rindt Racing as he took his career to Scandinavia. After limited success further south in Europe, bar a podium in a club race at Snetterton, he was soon bringing in top 10 results in events like the Valvoline Cup at Ring Djursland (having started from pole), the Prix de Paris at the fearsome oval and public road-combining Autodrome de Linas-Montlhery, and in the Swedish F3 championship.
Things got even better in his second season with Rindt, when he comfortably won the second edition of Sweden's Knustorp Cup and came third in the Skarpnacksloppet race, as well as fifth in the Helsinki Speed Games and took pole for the Valvoline Cup again – but didn't get to the final after trouble in the heats.
Running his own cars, or buying and selling them, became of greater interest afterwards and by 1968 the Frank Williams Racing Cars (FWRC) team was active in Formula 2 and F3 across Europe.
Piers Courage came sixth in the European F2 standings in the team's first season, the highlight of which was second place in the Mediterranean Grand Prix at Enna-Pergusa. Later in the year they took their Brabham BT23C to South America and came third in the Argentinian F2 series thanks to winning the Argentine Airlines Grand Prix, and the Lottery Grand Prix at Monza also went the team's way as Jonathan Williams (no relation) pipped Roy Winklemann Racing's Alan Rees and The Chequered Flag team's Robin Widdows at the line.
Courage came third in the Reims and Albi grands prix that year, the French events not included in the European championship, and a year later he repeated his Reims result and made the podium of the Pau and Limborg grands prix.
Frank Williams Racing Cars in European F2
Best final result
Best quali
1968 13 2x 2nd (+1 heat win) 1 pole 5
1969 11 2 wins (+1 heat win) 1x 4th 5
1971 16 1x 3rd (+1 heat win) 1 pole 3
1972 0 DNQ 1x 31st 0
The Limborg GP at Zolder was a strong one for FWRC, as Courage was sandwiched between his team-mates Jacky Ickx and Graham McRae. Courage went one better at Enna in 1969, but this time he wasn't eligible for points in European F2, and then Richard Attwood was runner-up in the F2 class and sixth overall in the German Grand Prix, but as a round of the Formula 1 world championship he wasn't eligible to score in an F2 car.
There was then a break from F2 for FWRC as F1 took priority, but the team took a hit when Courage died at the wheel in a horror accident during the Dutch Grand Prix.
F2 entries resumed in 1971, with Derek Bell aptly bringing home a podium in the Jochen Rindt Memorial Trophy, after Rindt had been another to die while racing in F1 in 1970, and Pescarolo dominated a non-championship event at Mallory Park.
A return to South America resulted in eighth place in the Brazilian F2 series for Carlos Pace and a Bogota Grand Prix podium in Colombian F2 for Bell, and each claimed strong results in Italy as Pace won the Imola Grand Prix and came third in Vallelunga's Madunina Grand Prix, while Bell was Lottery GP runner-up.
F2 was scaled back again though in 1972 as funding from French oil company Motul meant resources were not only moved back into attending as much of the F1 season as possible but also designing and building chassis for it in-house.
That also brought an end to FWRC's time running Brabham cars in F3, where it had also been achieving success and adding a page to motorsport history.
Tetsu Ikuzawa was the first Japanese driver post-war to race full-time in Europe and he was one of Frank Williams' first inspired hires when he brought him into his F3 line-up mid-season in 1968.
He went on to finish fourth in BRSCC British F3, winning at Brands Hatch, Oulton Park and twice at Mallory with the first of those awarding the Nottingham Trophy.
His trailblazing success went beyond the championship, as he won the Martini F3 Trophy at Silverstone, was second in the Zandvoort Trophy and third in the International Speed Cup supporting F2's Reims GP which Courage made the podium of.
FWRC had a substantial European presence in F3, running Patrick Champin and Jean-Francois Gerbault to seventh and eighth in French F3 and also taking them to Belgium, Italy and Spain while drivers such as Malcolm Guthrie and Richard Burton were signed for races in Finland and Sweden.
Ikuzawa changed teams in 1969, and John Kendall was brought in for part-time campaigns in Britain over the next two years before the workshop space in Reading became fully dedicated to F1.
Walter Wolf bought into FWRC ahead of the 1976 season, but after a year of shared ownership Williams left the company after Wolf had reduced his role in the racing team. For 1977 he and Patrick Head set up Williams Grand Prix Engineering, now known as Williams Racing, and they returned to F1 immediately. By 1980 they were world champions.
In 2009 the Williams name returned to F2, as the FIA revived the moniker for a new single-make series being created. Jonathan Palmer's MotorSport Vision company successfully won the rights to turn F2 into reality, and enlisted Williams to develop a new car for a series that was to be a lower-cost equivalent to F3 (although marketed as a rival to GP2 and Formula Renault 3.5 hence the F2 moniker) and a step up from MSV's similarly centrally-run Formula Palmer Audi series.
Palmer had an existing relationship with Williams as he made his F1 debut as a driver with the team back in 1983, and the partnership with Audi from FPA continued into the new F2 series which sat primarily on the World Touring Car Championship support bill and therefore raced further afield than its rivals, going to the Czech Republic and Morocco.
The FPA champion was awarded an F2 test, while the F2 champion each year got a free F1 test drive with Williams. The recipients of these were Andy Soucek, Dean Stoneman, Mirko Bortolotti and Luciano Bacheta.
Frank Williams Racing Cars wins
1968 F2 Lottery GP Monza Jonathan Williams
1968 European F2 Zandvoort GP heat Zandvoort Piers Courage
1968 Argentinian F2 Argentine Airlines GP Buenos Aires Piers Courage
1969 European F2 Wills Trophy heat Thruxton Piers Courage
1969 European F2 Mediterranean GP R1 & R2 Enna-Pergusa Piers Courage
1969 European F2 Jochen Rindt Trophy heat Thruxton Henri Pescarolo
1971 F2 Speed Int. Trophy Mallory Park Henri Pescarolo
1971 F2 Imola GP Imola Carlos Pace
1968 British F3 Brands, Oulton & Mallory Park Various Tetsu Ikuzawa
1968 F3 Martini F3 Trophy Silverstone Tetsu Ikuzawa
1968 British F3 Nottingham Trophy Mallory Park Tetsu Ikuzawa
1968 FLibre Club race [F3] Brands Hatch Richard Burton
At the same time, there was behind-the-scenes changes occurring at Williams with plans to publicly list the company to increase its shares value and turn around flailing fortunes both on-track and financially after the global financial crisis.
Toto Wolff had bought into the team in 2009, and he was influential in its increased support of young drivers on an individual basis. Williams had always been known for taking brave but inspired calls on signing rookie drivers, British F3 race-winner Jenson Button in 2000 and IndyCar champions Juan Pablo Montoya and Jacques Villeneuve being superstar-sized examples, and those success stories paved the way for rivals McLaren and Red Bull to take similar risks in the years since.
Nico Rosberg, another Williams rookie-turned-F1 world champion, started working at single-seaters' top level on the factory floor (now in Grove) and a few years later that integration was formalised as a process with another Nico. His namesake Nico Hulkenberg, who like Rosberg got a first F1 test with Williams after winning the Formula BMW ADAC title, was signed as test driver for 2008 but also was given work experience in various departments of the team.
That process was repeated with Valtteri Bottas from 2010 to 2012, with a GP3 title being won in the middle, and like his predecessors he was promoted to a race seat after serving his apprenticeship on the simulator and in the office.
Bottas was managed by Wolff, who was also married to Susie Wolff who became Williams' next development driver after seven years in the DTM. She eventually got moved into a test driver position, and Alex Lynn took her old place in 2015.
Lynn had orchestrated his own move away from the Red Bull Junior Team, after just a single year there in which he had won the GP3 title, and represented Williams alongside racing in GP2. Formula Scout understands his role became increasingly simulator-heavy in 2016 as he in-effect started doing F3 development work for Williams' new test driver Lance Stroll, who did end up dominating that year's FIA European F3 championship after being fast but erratic the previous season.
It was Stroll who ended up in an F1 race seat in 2017, and there was more support on the simulator side in 2018 when Oliver Rowland was signed as the team's 'official young driver' despite being older than Stroll and team-mate Sergey Sirotkin.
Photo: Williams Racing
By this point being an affiliated young driver looked very different to how it had for Hulkenberg and Bottas, but Rowland's signing – given he was light on racing commitments that year – enabled the team to evaluate what worked best for drivers but also the team itself and in 2019 the Williams Driver Academy was created by Marc Harris, husband of deputy team principal Claire Williams and the day-to-day operator of the company after Frank had moved into a more upstairs role in 2013.
Jamie Chadwick was officially the first signing, with Dan Ticktum arriving at the end of 2019 and just a few months after being dropped by Red Bull. His fellow F2 racer Roy Nissany was added not long after, and FIA F3 Championship race-winner Logan Sargeant has recently been signed after Ticktum was dropped for reasons not believed to be linked to an infamous livestream.
During this time Williams has changed ownership, with the family no longer involved in the team, but the signing of Sargeant last month – and the continued support of injured reserve driver Jack Aitken – suggests that Sir Frank's legacy will continue to be felt in junior single-seaters as well as in F1.
Name: Frank Williams D/O/B April 16, 1942 Country England
1966: Knutstorp Cup winner, 3rd in XVI Skarpnacksloppet, 5th in Helsinki Speed Games, 6th in Enna-Pergusa GP, 14th in Finnish GP – 4th in F3 class, 12th in Lottery GP
1965: 6th in Valvoline Cup, 9th in Prix de Paris, NC in Swedish F3 (foreigners couldn't score it seems), 11th in Frontieres GP
1964: 8th in Caserta Car Race, 11th in Wunstorf Airfield Race
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Analysis: The Butcher
When it comes to ranking summer signings, Welsh regional fans are sometimes very quick to label their signings the bargain of the summer, the find of the season, or just the signing of the season.
However, Will Boyde is the bargain, find and signing of the season. So there.
Since arriving from Scarlets in the summer he has featured in ten of 11 games, starting eight and in the last two weeks has even been granted the honour of captaining Cardiff Blues despite only being at the club for six months.
At 25, and only just at that, he is still one of the younger members of the squad, and with the likes of Josh Turnbull and Olly Robinson both involved in the starting XVs against Pau, both of whom have captained the side before, it speaks volumes about how highly Boyde is already regarded at the Arms Park.
It's difficult to write about what he's like as a person around the changing room. He's not obviously a shouter or screamer on the field, but he certainly leads by example and that is something that is demonstrable as the former butcher makes his presence felt in a blue (or awful grey) jersey.
The beauty of Boyde's slotting into the Cardiff Blues team so far is that he can wear six, seven or eight on his back and look so seamlessly at ease, hardly changing his game yet offering exactly what is required at each position.
Particularly when wearing six or eight the noticeable trait he has added to the pack since arriving from Scarlets has been his ball carrying, something which we have clearly lacked at times, especially when without Nick Williams and Josh Navidi. With no big call carriers in the tight five the back row takes on a lot of responsibility in this area.
Boyde seems more than happy to shoulder that responsibility, and his 169 metres made in the Guinness Pro14 so far this season come in at 24 metres per game and three metres per carry. Statistics that put him right up there with the best ball carriers in Europe.
Not the biggest player by any means, the key for him is an intelligence behind his carrying. In none of the clips does he hit a defender head on, instead he uses his extra speed and agility to hit gaps between defenders or aims for weak shoulders before engaging a sheer desire to make metres after contact with a strong leg drive.
That translates into making him a threat on the edge of the Cardiff Blues forwards formation too, with a little bit more space to work in the wider channels. His turn of pace mixed with the power that he brings provides easy go forward ball for us as he can challenge lighter backs or forwards not keen on defending towards the touchline.
With nine defenders beaten and five clean breaks made in the Pro14, Boyde is a secret attacking weapon that Cardiff Blues have unleashed to great effect so far this season, but perhaps his biggest impact has been in how he has brought others into the game around him.
In a number of the six clips so far the desire from the back rower to get his hands free through the tackle has been clear, which in all likelihood stems from the last few years at Scarlets where under Wayne Pivac a high skill level has been key to the way they play.
Boyde coming to the Arms Park and having the confidence to link play in that manner has added another dimension to our attack, and made him a focal point of it no matter where on the field he is.
The deft little inside passes are a joy to watch, and particularly in the second clip it is pleasing to see a player continue to work hard after producing a top piece of skill rather than standing and admiring his work.
Of course while his ability going forward is what has made him stand out, there's no way a back rower slots into any of blindside, openside or number eight in a Cardiff Blues side without being adept over the ball, and Boyde has certainly shown he is more than capable in this area.
Four turnovers this season, including crucial ones such as the clip against Benetton when he wins a penalty after the Italian side had created a dangerous line break, and he fits right in alongside the likes of Josh Navidi, Ellis Jenkins and Olly Robinson as a versatile and highly skilled back rower.
With Navidi, Jenkins and Nick Williams returning to fitness, as well as the emergence of young talents Shane Lewis-Hughes, James Botham and Alun Lawrence, the back row continues to be a source of great strength for Cardiff Blues.
Boyde is certainly a key part of that though, and with his new leadership role his presence at the Arms Park will only grow over the next few years. The former butcher from Pembrokeshire is doing good in the big city.
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Cracking signing (originally Narberth product) for the Blues….a class act on and off the field! Totally agree – signing of the season! Great article


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House of Representatives rejects hard-right immigration bill
Conservative measure was defeated 231-193, with 41 Republicans joining Democrats in voting against it
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The House killed a hard-right immigration bill Thursday, and Republican leaders delayed a planned vote on a compromise GOP package with the party's lawmakers fiercely divided over an issue that has long confounded them.
The conservative measure was defeated 231-193, with 41 Republicans — mostly moderates — joining Democrats in voting against it. Those defections — nearly 1 in 5 GOP lawmakers — underscored the party's chasm over immigration and the election-year pressures Republicans face to stay true to districts that range from staunchly conservative to pro-immigrant.
Thursday's vote set the stage for debate on the second bill, this one crafted by Republican leaders in hopes of finding an accord between the party's sparring moderate and conservative wings. That compromise was considered too lenient by some conservatives and seemed likely to fall, too, and aides said the final roll call would wait till Friday.
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Rejection of both would represent an embarrassment for president Donald Trump, who has supported them. As if the internal GOP turmoil was not enough, the party's political exposure on the issue has been intensified by heart-breaking images of migrant children separated from families and complicated by opaque statements by Mr Trump.
At the White House, the president defended his administration's 'zero-tolerance' policy of prosecuting all migrants caught illegally entering the country, a change that has caused thousands of families to be divided while the parents are detained. He said without it, "you would have a run on this country the likes of which nobody has ever seen."
He said he was inviting Congress' top two Democrats, House minority leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer, to the White House for immigration bargaining. He called them "extremist open-border Democrats."
And in a tweet that seemed to undermine House leaders' efforts to round up votes, he questioned the purpose of their legislation by suggesting it was doomed in the Senate anyway.
Mr Trump issued an executive order Wednesday aimed at reversing his own policy of taking immigrant children from their detained parents, but emotions remained high.
"I was welcomed here," a tearful Representative Norma Torres said during the House debate, describing her journey to the US as a child from Guatemala. "I was not put in a freezing cell."
In an embarrassing detour, the House used an early procedural vote to correct what Republicans called a drafting error — language providing $100 billion more than they'd planned to help build Mr Trump's proposed border wall with Mexico. Instead of giving initial approval for $24.8 billion spread over the next five years, the legislation said it would open the door to $24.8 billion "for each" of the next five years.
The rejected conservative bill would have granted no pathway to citizenship for young 'Dreamers' who arrived in the country illegally as children, curbed legal immigration and bolstered border security.
The second was a compromise between GOP moderates and the party's conservatives that included an opportunity for citizenship for the young immigrants. It provides $25 billion for Trump's wall, restrictions on legal immigration and language requiring the Homeland Security Department to keep migrant families together while they're being processed for illegal entry to the US.
Democrats oppose both measures as harsh.
"It is not a compromise," Ms Pelosi told reporters. "It may be a compromise with the devil, but it is not a compromise with the Democrats."
Even before votes began, Mr Trump complicated GOP efforts to round up votes.
"What is the purpose of the House doing good immigration bills when you need 9 votes by Democrats in the Senate, and the Dems are only looking to Obstruct (which they feel is good for them in the Mid-Terms)," Trump wrote. "Republicans must get rid of the stupid Filibuster Rule-it is killing you!"
Senate Republicans, fearing Mr Trump's action will not withstand a legal challenge and eager to go on record opposing the administration's policy, have unveiled their own legislation to keep detained immigrant families together.
In the House, moderate Republicans forced the immigration debate to the fore by threatening to use a rare procedure to demand a vote. Many are from states with large populations of young 'Dreamer' immigrants who now face deportation threats under Mr Trump's decision to end the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. A federal court challenge has kept the DACA program running for now.
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KEYWORDS California Top Young Professionals
Now in its third year, ENR California's Top 20 Under 40 list makes clear that the construction industry has a deep well of talent. Our 2013 competition drew a record number of entries, with nominations submitted for young professionals in all facets of design and construction. The unprecedented response is a hopeful sign that the industry in California has a full roster of emerging leaders.
Our Top 20 Under 40 list, selected by an independent jury, includes up-and-coming employees and those who already have lead roles in their respective firms.
The jury selected winners on the basis of candidates' career experience; industry leadership; community service; and other factors. This year's jury included Pauly De Bartolo, designer at De Bartolo + Rimanic Design Studio, San Diego; Marylou Flanders, pursuits manager, water & environment, at Atkins, San Diego; Leah Hislop, online communications and marketing specialist at Arup, San Francisco; and Gary Miller, vice president of transportation at RBF Consulting, Irvine.
DE BARTOLO
Pauly De Bartolo
De Bartolo + Rimanic Design Studio
In 2003 De Bartolo joined Australian firm Marchese + Partners Architects (MPA) and later was selected to open a San Diego office for the firm. In 2008 he co-founded De Bartolo + Rimanic Design Studio with Ivan Rimanic. De Bartolo had worked with Rimanic in MPA's Sydney office, where they designed more than 100 projects in Australia, China, Ireland and the U.S. De Bartolo says he created a "buzz" in San Diego when he introduced a design concept for a planned new East Village Stadium for the San Diego Chargers. His concept includes a multifaceted sports facility that also seeks to enhance the city's downtown activity. In 2012 De Bartolo was elected to the San Diego Architectural Foundation board of directors.
Marylou Flanders
Pursuits Manager, Water & Environment
Flanders has 15 years of marketing and business development experience with Atkins. She says she enjoys working with a team and accepting challenges involved with creating winning proposals and presentations. Flanders is on the board of directors of the SMPS San Diego chapter and serves as committee chairperson for communications and branding.
HISLOP
Leah Hislop
Communications & Marketing Specialist
Hislop has eight years of marketing and business development experience. As part of the Arup San Francisco team, her work includes Web editing, social media communications, event planning, project-lead development, proposal preparation, internal and external communications and copywriting. She is secretary on the SMPS San Francisco Bay Area Chapter board of directors.
Vice President of Transportation
RBF Consulting
Miller has more than 38 years of civil engineering experience. He is registered in California and Arizona and has worked on local, regional and statewide projects. His experience spans hundreds of projects in a wide range of sectors, including aviation, highways, military, commercial, industrial, retail, K-12 and higher education, recreation facilities, traffic engineering and municipal support services.
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text: Q: SQL Server Agent. Can I add detail to the log SQL Server 2005. I have inherited some SQL Agent jobs which have multiple steps with each step containing multiple stored procedure executes. This all works fine, but is a headache when one of the sp executes fail as I have to trawl through all the sp's looking for the one that failed (as SQL Agent simply reports the step that fails and the reason for failure). In an ideal world these sp's would be split into separate steps, but I cannot do this. So, my question is this ... Is there a means of writing to the SQL Agent log so I can trace which sp execute has been started. Is there anything along the lines of the ECHO command in DOS that could be used between each sp execute to update the log?


Sarazin, F, Al-Khalili, J S, Ball, G C, Hackman, G, Walker, P M, Austin, R A, Eshpeter, B, Finlay, P, Garrett, P E, Grinyer, G F et al, Koopmans, K A, Kulp, W D, Leslie, J R, Melconian, D, Osborne, C J, Schumaker, M A, Scraggs, H C, Schwarzenberg, J, Smith, M B, Svensson, C E, Waddington, J C and Wood, J L (2004) Halo Neutrons and the Beta Decay of Li-11 Physical Review C, 70 (3).
The beta decay of Li-11 has been investigated at TRIUMF-ISAC using a high-efficiency array of Compton suppressed HPGe detectors. From a line-shape analysis of the Doppler-broadened peaks observed in the Be-10 gamma spectrum, both the half-lives of states in Be-10 and the energies of the beta-delayed neutrons feeding those states were obtained. Furthermore, it was possible to determine the excitation energies of the parent states in Be-11 with uncertainties comparable to those obtained from neutron spectroscopy experiments. These data suggest that the beta decay to the 8.81 MeV state in Be-11 occurs in the Li-9 core and that one neutron comprising the halo of Li-11 survives in a halolike configuration after the beta-delayed neutron emission from this level.
Published in Physical Review C, Vol. 70, Iss. 3. Copyright 2004 American Physical Society. Click here to access the journal's website.


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Role Conflict in a Relationship and its Management
All of us in a relationship have certain defined roles, certain greyish roles which are sometimes to be taken up and sometimes can be passed on to the other person. Now this creates a space of expectations from the partner but it also might lead to a lack of communication because we may take this as a given. We often define roles to each individual in a relationship but when these expectations are not met, it causes a lot of conflict.
One of the conflicts which is prominent among couples is – role conflict, a clash between two roles an individual might be playing just like an actor in a theatre. When one role has a conflicting expectation from the other, it leads to a lot of chaos and confusion within not just the individual but also in the relationship. Often the requirement or expectation in one role is against the very duties of the second role as they might be incompatible and contradictory role requirements can lead to role conflicts.
Here is an example to understand role conflict better – Alexa might be both, a wife and a boss or a supervisor to her husband Baron. He is involved in some loss to the company where there is to be a call taken by the management on his demotion and the management committee is being led by his wife.
While at work, she is expected to be unbiased and carry out her responsibilities without any prejudice in favour of her husband and if there are discrepancies in what he has done, action is a must but that action might lead to a major tussle at home where she is the wife and he is the husband and do not share a boss-employee relationship. Now this is an example of an inter role conflict which is a conflict that arises between two different roles while intra role conflict arises when the person is expected to play both roles in the same setup.
For example, A knows that she has to be warm towards her kids but when they do not behave well, or show indiscipline, she also needs to be a little directive and clear around it so that the kids understand the importance of discipline. There is an intra role conflict happening here.
How can we manage these conflicts and struggles?
Our words and gestures often communicate a lot more than what we speak. Taking a step back and detaching from the statement and not looking at it as a personal attack so that the buttons aren't being pushed, the trigger points aren't disturbed helps us respond rationally. Another interesting method to work around these struggles and conflicts in a relationship is by using the 'CARE' Principle-
Concentrate on the relevant issue
Acknowledge your own active listening through facial expression and body posture
Respond by asking questions and paraphrasing back what the other person has said
Empathize by trying to see things from the other person's perspective
These techniques help us steer and navigate smoothly through these phases of power struggles or role conflicts.
Also Read – How Do You Resolve Conflicts?


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Report: COVID-19 vaccinations will not be mandatory for NBA players
Unvaccinated players will face more rigorous safety protocols
By Josh Kern@joshuakern Sep 15, 2021, 9:30am EDT
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According to a report from ESPN, NBA Players will not be required to be vaccinated to participate in the upcoming NAB season.
The report indicates that the NBPA has refused to budge on the notion of a vaccine mandate.
Referees, coaches, and team personnel that work within 15 feet of the players all must be vaccinated. Unvaccinated players, meanwhile, will face stricter health and safety regulations than their vaccinated peers, including socially-distanced lockers and having to eat and travel away from vaccinated players. They'll also have to be tested regularly. (Players in cities with vaccine mandates, like New York and San Francisco, may well have to get the vaccines to play at home.)
For the Toronto Raptors, MLSE has already announced that Scotiabank Arena staff and anyone attending games as either a fan or media must be fully vaccinated. This doesn't appear to extend to players, though I do hope for their own safety that all Raptors players are vaccinated.
There are many legitimate reasons why African-Americans are hesitant to get vaccines; of course, there are many more illegitimate reasons why people are refusing. Either way, it comes as no surprise to me that the Players' Association is against the idea of a mandate.
But I do wonder if, internally among teams, players who are not vaccinated will face pressure from their teammates to get the shot.
Team camaraderie and chemistry may well take a hit if players can't sit and eat with their teammates. And what if players have a close contact tracing issue and have to miss games, or even worse, actually contract COVID? One only need look at the Raptors last year to see what sort of impact that can have. If unvaccinated players are seen as causing a team to lose games or miss the playoffs, the vaccinated players will surely be none too pleased.
Ultimately though, the most important thing is the safety of the players, as well as the people around them, from team and arena staffers to families to fans. Hopefully players will continue to get vaccinated, not because of a mandate or peer pressure, but because it's the safest and most effective way to protect themselves and those around them from COVID-19.


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Covid-19: Six states contribute 83% of new deaths as single-day toll crosses 300
Breaking News Covid_19 Disaster Government Health India live-news
March 28, 2021 March 28, 2021 2 min read News24-7live
While Maharashtra's 24-hour toll of 166 was the highest this year, Delhi on Saturday recorded 10 deaths, highest since January 23.
In the last 24 hours, India reported 312 Covid-19 deaths, the highest single-day toll recorded in this year. The last time the country witnessed over 300 deaths was on December 25, 2020, when 336 deaths were reported in 24 hours. Amid the number of rising daily infections, this adds a fresh concern as the death rate, so far, remained low, despite the evident outbreak of the second wave of the pandemic.
Here are 5 points about the present Covid-19 death rate in the country.
> About 83 per cent of deaths have been reported only in six states in the last 24 hours. These states are those which are also reporting a spike in daily infections.
> Maharashtra, Punjab, Kerala, Chhattisgarh, Delhi and Madhya Pradesh reported the highest number of deaths in the last 24 hours.
> Delhi's 24-hour death count is concerning as the Capital did not report such a huge number of toll after January 23. On January 23, there were 10 deaths and 197 fresh cases. While the toll was repeated, the new cases on Saturday were manifold, as the city reported 1,558 fresh cases.
> Maharashtra's death toll of 166 in 24 hours was highest in 2021. Punjab reported 45 deaths, while Kerala accounted for 14 deaths. A total of 13 deaths were reported in Chhattisgarh, while Delhi and Madhya Pradesh reported 10 deaths each.
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