Parkham

A postcard has been received from Pte T Pearce stating that he is a prisoner of war in Germany. No news had been received of him for some months. This is the third Parkham boy to be taken prisoner by the Germans.
Our Parkham boys appear to be on all the theatres of war. They took part in the Dardanelles, Palestine, Mesopotamia, Salonica, and the Western Front, and also in the North Sea affairs.
Much corn awaits stacking, and no one can remember such a late harvest in general. In 1903, the wet October would not permit the few scattered fields to be collected until November, but up to last week this year the corn could be seen in the fields by the hundreds of acres. Tuesday was a good day, when great progress was made, and the harvest in bulk was practically completed by the end of the week, except on Melbury, where some 50 acres still remain to be cut and nearly the whole acreage has to be stacked.

Gazette article dated 8 October 1918