Description: A Roll of honour of the men from Widnes, Cheshire who fell in the Great war 1914-18 and who are commemorated on the Cenotaph In Victoria Park, Widnes.
book (8076) cheshire (1200) ww1 (196) first world war (74) widnes (71) victoria park (31) cenotaph (14)
The book was compiled and published in 1999.The book has been out of print for over ten years and is very scare nowadays if not impossible to find. In the book there are 818 short but extremely interesting potted histories, each listing showing where each man was born, enlisted and resided. Full service details and place and date of death and burial or commemoration both worldwide and locally are included.
There are details relating to each man`s education, employment and family details. In most entries there is as much as can be researched as to how each man met his end. Amongst those commemorated is a unique RFC pilot who was awarded the Victoria Cross and the DCM.
At least three men, who although they are on the memorial, actually survived the war... Men who are listed at least twice, merchant seamen who have been include on the memorial as Royal Naval seamen and to illustrate one of the darker sides of this conflict there are two men who were "Shot at dawn".