Some of the more bizarre snippets from the first year of World War One, mainly from the Hertfordshire Mercury.
Some of the more bizarre snippets from the last year of World War One, mainly from the Hertfordshire Mercury.
A picture of Berkhamsted War Memorial taken in the 1950s from beside the projectionist room at The Court Cinema where ...
The story of the 30 men from a Hertfordshire village who died in WW1
Propaganda was used to ensure that people would only know what Government wanted it to know. All forms of information ...
By 1915 the population were feeling the effects of war with food a serious concern. The Germans were using blockades ...
In the early stages of the war there was little problem with recruitment. On the outbreak of war in August ...
Remembering the Battle of Jutland Children were frequently reminded of the war by calls upon their pocket money. The log book ...
Air raids and food production affected the daily lives of many Hertfordshire children. Fundraising and support for the forces Calls upon children’s ...
A fascinating autograph book was donated to us at Hitchin Library in 2003 which was compiled by a Hitchin resident, ...
Witnessed by a Bishops Stortford soldier
A 'bitter-sweet' account passed down through a grand-daughter and resident of Ware
Recruiting in Watton at Stone
The Hertfordshire Related Men and Women of the Great War
2018 will see the centenary of the signing of the Armistice but also of the single largest demographic disaster of the 20th ...
Our men of the First World War 1914-1918
Many tactics were used to persuade men to volunteer for the army. ‘Patriotic’ meetings and ‘recruitment’ parties were two examples. Women ...
A proud monument to Hertfordshire valour
