The Stories of the Men of King’s Caple who died in The Great War
The stories will hopefully give the background to the relationship the individual soldiers and sailors have with the local area, their family and family background, where they lived and what they did. It will also give a description of their Regiment and the battles they and their Regiment fought in as well as where (and if we know it) how they died I hope it will be more than a memorial but give an account of who they were, who their families were and how they fitted into the local community.
When the ‘boys came home’ there was uncertainty about ‘commemoration’. There were essentially two groups of people – Those who had served at the front and those who had not. Those who had served at the front wanted to get back to normal and wanted to forget the war and were not really interested in memorials (which is why the phrase so often heard was “my father/grandfather fought in the war but never talked about it) however the ‘civilian’ population felt there should be memorials to those who had fought and died in the war. Many servicemen were unhappy with the role the church had played in the conflict and often War Memorials were placed away from the church.
The men of King’s Caple who died in the Great War.
27753 Private William Harris 11th Border Regiment
10870 Private Charles Cartwright 1st Battalion King’s Shropshire Light Infantry
236423 Private Arthur Mayo 31st Battalion Herefordshire Regiment
70606 Private Charles Terry 13th Battalion King’s (Liverpool Regiment)
251206 Driver Ernest Brisland Royal Field Artillery 92 Brigade ‘C’ Battery
11706 Privater George Ravenhill 5th Battalion King’s Shropshire Light Infantry
13026 Private Henry Cartwright 2nd Battalion Welsh Regiment
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