From the May 2014 edition...
With the anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War approaching, it is an appropriate moment to look again at the village war memorial in St. Helen’s churchyard. There are twenty-one names of those
who gave their lives in that conflict on it, and two others, the Taylor brothers, listed on a separate stone.
They were all soldiers, the majority in the Lincolnshire Regiment; most were simple Privates, only two Officers are included. One of these, son of a baronet Captain Vere De Hoghton, has a personal memorial erected by his widow in his native village, Hoghton in Lancashire. I wonder what brought him to North Thoresby? Many of the details about our First World War dead are given on the Roll of Honour website:
Do you have any links with any of the names listed? In particular, it would be good to hear about those who have no details given. P.J. Batten, J.H. Broughton, M.H. Campion, J. Roberts, W. Thompson and R.W. Townend are the names about which little seems to be known. Can you fill in the gaps? It would be interesting to include their stories, or those of any other of our First World War veterans in future issues of the news.
- Ruairidh Greig
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