GREAT TORRINGTON REMEMBERS

Great Torrington paid a heavy price during the Great War. Despite being a small town, 83 men are named on the town's war memorial. It is difficult to imagine the effect this would have had on the local community, as well as the families who lost their fathers, brothers and sons. It struck me whilst walking past the memorial one day how little we know about these men who made the ultimate sacrifice for their country. We often hear the words "lest we forget" spoken of these men, but the sad reality is that we are in danger of having their memories lost to time. This project aims to trace as much detail of their lives as possible. This included trawling through census data, military records, old newspaper clippings and, where possible, tracing their families for further information. There has been varying degrees of success depending on the information available... What is for sure is that there are some fascinating stories to tell. We have men who fought with the Canadians and the..

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