Shaftesbury remembered their absent friends throughout the war, and commemorated the dead when peace, and the battered survivors, returned.
Mike Simpson tells how feelings ran high on the day Birkenhead's memorial to the town's war dead finally was unveiled.
But when The Great War was all over, the town was left with the burden of making sense of the appalling losses sustained in achieving victory.
SHAFTESBURY Boys’ Club, Birkenhead’s leading youth club, played a crucial role in the Great War of 1914-1918. After the war came peace and remembrance and Shaftesbury commemorated its lost heroes in a ‘Golden Book’. In 2003, Mike Simpson turned the pages of history for the Globe.
In a week when we will stop to reflect and remember those killed in war, here is another chance to read Mike Simpson's fantastic feature that appeared in the Globe back in 2003.
In a week where we stop to reflect and remember those killed in war, here is another chance to read Mike Simpson's fantastic feature that appeared in the Globe back in 2003. It shows that arguments over fitting tributes to the dead did not begin with Ingleborough Memorial Field.
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