Lucky Villages

[OpsMajor]

Whilst on holiday in Cornwall I met a venerable old chap who told me about "Lucky Villages" - a term I had not heard before. He said that although practically every village and hamlet in the country had chaps who went to WW1 a few had all their men returned and they erected 'thankful memorials'. He quoted Herodsfoot (nr Looe?) as one which had about 10 returnees but no KiAs.

Is this an urban myth?

Mike

[AlanCurragh]

Mike - not sure about "thankful memorials" but this thread discusses Thankful Villages. If you do a search for "thankful villages", you'll find more threads

Alan

http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/i...nkful++villages

[spoons]

Certainly the term 'thankful villages' is fairly well known. See this link on Wikipedia

But note that there are no thankful villages in Scotland

No mention of your village either

\Spoons

[Tom Morgan]

Mike - Herodsfoot had 13 men who left the village to fight in the war and they all came back:

J. BODY C. HONEY

J.BUNNEY A.KITT

S.CROSS H.MEDLEN

H.DONEY C.PARKER

J.DONEY H.SOMERSET

W.HOAR P.TRENGROVE

W.H.TURNER

(Everyone came back in the Scond World War, too).

For more details Click Here.

Tom

[hillgorilla]

I once heard that Caton near To Lancaster was one, though not certain if that is true.

[OpsMajor]

Thanks all for clearing that up and thanks, Tom, for such a superb, informative site.

Krs

Mike