Last week's ST WWI? (15 July

[LeoMunro]

Can anyone please give me the the locations or seven clues that were used to get "Stars and Stripes"?

With many thanks and love to all,

LM

[b97st]

Our �Books and Battlefields� treasure hunt sees us convene at a motorway service area. Our mission: solve the clues, photograph each to prove it, and �save� the letters specified. Thus we open the first clue: �Capital suburb? (Save letters five and six.) Mr Milton�s wife might recognise it.� Friend, buried beneath a mountain of books and maps, quickly navigates us to a village, where, one snap later, the second clue is opened: �A short drive to a village (save letter one) where the Golden Cockerel found early �sustenance�. Here, too, lived a verse writer (surname: letters three and six). Works include Hips and Haws.� The clue is soon solved.
Clue three: �You might find a Crome Yellow house in the village (letter six) along the road. For sure a novelist (surname: letter two) � his autobiography, A Little Learning � wrote and honeymooned here.� It is easy enough to find the village, where the next clue is opened: �A little more than three baker�s dozen steps west to a fourth village (letters three and five). Here lived, and is buried, a third writer (surname: letter six), governor general of Canada between 1935 and 1940.� A picture proves our visit.
Clue five: �Follow the nearby canal � or canter � to this town (letter two), to meet a splendid lady on a white horse.� At last a clue I am able to solve � as I am clue six: �North to battle! Photograph the canalside village (letters five and seven) where, in 1644, 18,000 men met for a punch-up with no outright winner.� The seventh question is right up my street, too: �Rewind 175 years � or drive for 10 minutes to the hamlet (letter six) where a second battle was fought, about which little is known � save it concerned bellicose flowers.�
There, we open the final clue: �Add a letter �s� to your collection. Rearranging them reveals an emblem that, like its cousins, has a fly and a hoist (and possibly a truck nearby).

[LeoMunro]

Very many thanks b97st, for sending the complete puzzle.

My appeal for thelp was not at all clear enough, and I apolgize most humbly.

What I was trying to get were the answers to the clues given (the locations) so that when rearranged, and an S added, would give me "Stars and Stripes".

This the first of all the 550 WWI?s that I have not been able to solve - but that's Ok if I can only add the clue answers,

Again with many thanks.

Lm
PS. Can anyone help I wonder -with pleading tone!

[b97st]

Clue 1. Forest Hill. Marie Powell one of Milton's wives hailed from Forest Hill : letters 5 & 6 = ST
Clue 2.Coppard wrote Hips and Haws: letters 3 & 6 = PR
Clue 3. Beckley ( where Waugh lived): letter 6 = E
Waugh wrote a A Little Learning: letter 2 = A
Clue 4. John Buchan wrote the 39 Steps and is buried in Elsfield: letters 3 & 5 = SI and N
Clue 5. Banbury Cross: letter 2 = A
Clue 6. Cropredy (site of ECW battle in 1644): letters 5 & 7 = RD
Clue 7. Edgcote (site of Wars of the Roses battle in 1469): letter 6 = T.

[LeoMunro]

Now that's what I was trying to ask for!

Well done you b. You certainly made this old fellow's weekend.

Love to all,

Lm.