WWI newspapers

[Lemw]

I would like to find out which newspaper carried a report on my great uncle Frank Norman Sweet and Captain Ward Hunt

[nanny jan]

Welcome to Rootschat. 

To help to narrow the search do you know where the men lived?

[CraigM63]

I think the OP is referring to Captain George Ward Hunt and Private Frank Norman Sweet, service number 9042, who were both killed in action while serving with the 2nd Battalion of the Northhamptonshire Regiment on Sunday, 9 May 1915, at the Battle of Aubers Ridge.

I'd suggest that you're probably looking for local papers in the Northhampton area, the British Newspaper Archive and presumably also Findmypast seem to have a collection of local papers from Northampton for the right time period.

Having said that, CWGC indicates that his mother was Mrs Kate Florence Miller, living at 1 Millman Place, Bedford Row, Holborn, London. Where was he born and brought up?

[barryd]

This photograph the came from a Newspaper  .... which one ?

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205301718

[barryd]

32200   Sweet, Basil W   Northamptonshire Regiment   50153   Private    Northamptonshire Regiment 50153 Private [2] Norfolk Regiment 41741 Private   
32201   Sweet, Frank N   Northamptonshire Regiment   9042    Private   
32202   Sweet, John Francis   Northamptonshire Regiment 201696   Private

I have gone though the "Stanley News" a County Durham Newspaper for that time and there are pages and pages of deaths of local soldiers. every week of its war time publication. Normally a postage stamp sized photograph of the soldier with killed, missing and if I remember, missing as the caption.

At best a Northampton Newspaper may have the same.

Officers would have fuller article.

[mckha489]

11 June 1915 - Northampton Mercury
Has F.N. Sweet listed.  Others have a bit of commentary. I haven’t read through to see if it’s the same engagement.

[ShaunJ]

That IWM photo of George Ward Hunt is in "Bond of Sacrifice" Volume 2

https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=GBM%2FBONDOFSACRIFICE%2FVOL2%2F268&parentid=GBM%2FBONDOFSACRIFICE%2F2017

[CraigM63]

Frank Norman Sweet's service record actually survives, and can be found in all the usual places. It shows that he enlisted in 1909 at the age of 15 as a boy musician. He was born in Holborn, London, although he enlisted in the Northamptonshire Regiment, so I'm not sure what the connection is. Looks like he had a little bit of a chequered disciplinary record, including deserting for 3 months in the summer of 1914. He can be found in the 1911 England census at the South Raglan Barracks in Devonport serving with the 1st Battalion of the Northamptonshire Regiment.

[sarah]

Hi Lem,

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