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{{Quote-news|text=Please accept my grateful thanks for sending a football for D Company, 11th Borders. I hope we shall soon be having some inter-Company matches in the Lonsdale Battalion, when D Company, which is noted for its forcefulness and dash, will, no doubt, do as well in the football field as it is doing in the trenches. If you want to see some real ‘muddied oafs’ come here when D Company comes out of the trenches – but they are merry still. Believe me, very heartily yours.|source=Rev. J. W. Crosse|date=[[3 January]], 1916}}
Conversely, propaganda and censorship was commonplace under such circumstances. What actually happened on the battlefields wasn't always reported accurately, or even at all. Yet advertisements, films and the daily reports that portrayed the [[
Many of the articles here are short, just one or two lines, some are quite lengthy. They provide a glimpse into what was happening in the trenches, the battlefields, the hospitals and also at home. Some stories are almost comical in nature, whilst some are descriptive and some heartfelt.
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*[[The Cumberland News|Cumberland News, The]] (5)
*[[West Cumberland Times]]
*[[Workington Star and Harrington Guardian]] (74)
For a comprehensive listing see the [[Cumberland and Westmorland Newspaper Index]], which lists every newspaper from both counties.
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