WW1/AC/OP2/33

Claimant: Christopher Claridge; Occupier: Christopher Claridge; Owner: Christopher Claridge; Land Affected: Field No. 269 (12.546 acres to be broken up) in Heath & Reach; Additional Information: - the claim was settled by arbitration by William Pease Theakston of Huntingdon; - CC owned a silver and building sand pit in Heath & Reach; - correspondence regarding possibility of having to break up more grassland which would mean a reduction in the twenty horses kept for work at the sand pit (which is described as producing sand for vital war work) [1918]; - employment, presumably at the sand pit, of a former cowman and request by the War Agricultural Executive Committee to release the man back to agricultural work [1918]; - correspondence regarding five words added to the engrossed submission by CC's agents which were not detected before the signature of the War Agricultural Executive Committee chairman [1921]. [ex File No.104]

1917-1921

From: 1918 To: 1919

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Claridge, Christopher,
Theakston, William Pease

Bedfordshire County Council, ploughing, local government orders, World War One, arbitrations, sand, horses, cowman, agricultural labour, HEATH & REACH