On This Day, 15 January 1916

Birmingham Daily Gazette (excerpt)

Saturday 15 January 1916

SPLENDID WORK
What the Digbeth Institute is Doing
PASTOR’S MESSAGE

The Rev. S. M. Berry, the well-known pastor of Carr’s-lane Church, Birmingham, is on service with the Y.M.C.A. in France, but he has always the interest of Digbeth Institute at heart. In his preface to the eight annual report of that institution he says:- ‘This is being penned by the aid of a lamp’s uncertain light, under canvas ‘somewhere in France’. From the distance comes the sound of the guns. How far away from Digbeth it all seems! And yet it is not…. Over 500 men from the Institute have joined the Army and navy, 460 of whom have their names inscribed on the roll of honour…
Girls’ self-denial
The members of the Girls’ Evening Home for the second year in succession gave up their prizes to buy wool for the knitting of comforts for the soldiers.