Category: World War I (1914-18)
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100th Anniversary of the End of World War I
The November 2018 edition of the Church Lawford and Kings Newnham Newsletter detailed the various activities planned to remember the end of the First World War 100 years earlier. These activities followed on from the Centenary Bell Ringing which had taken place over the previous four years detailed via this link. The newsletter article is… Read more
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The “Peace Babies” of Church Lawford
In 2018 the Village remembered the end of the First World War 100 years earlier. Frank Hartley wrote an article for the village magazine to complement the various activities that went on to remember the events of that year, as well as other post-war events. Tis article is reproduced here as it appeared in the… Read more
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Great War Centenary Bells (2014-2018)
The Battle of the Somme started on 1 July 1916. By the end of the battle, in November, 420,000 British men had died. In that July four men from Church Lawford and King’s Newnham lost their lives. It is these four men, recorded on our village War Memorial, that Church Lawford Bellringers paid tribute to… Read more