NigelS Posted 19 July , 2014 Share Posted 19 July , 2014 An article in today's Daily Telegraph (19th July) 'And they all came home from the world wars...' about the UK's thirteen known - there may well be more - so called 'Doubly thankful villages' whose men all came back from both World Wars, and how they're to have special commemorative plaques erected. The article doesn't say who's organizing the plaques - anyone know? NigelS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jay dubaya Posted 19 July , 2014 Share Posted 19 July , 2014 And I've lived in two of them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 20 July , 2014 Share Posted 20 July , 2014 I am reminded of this, from Peter Vansittart's 'Voices From the Great War' (1981): "A lot of farmers hid their horses during the Great War, when the officers came round. The officers always gave good money for a horse but sometimes the horses were like brothers and the men couldn't let them go, so they hid them. I wasn't called up. Nothing happened to me and I didn't remind them. We didn't really miss the men who didn't come back. The village stayed the same." John Grout to Ronald Blythe. From Blythe's 'Akenfield'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NigelS Posted 21 July , 2014 Author Share Posted 21 July , 2014 According to a letter in today's Daily Telegraph (21st July) Little Sodbury in Gloucestershire is another 'Doubly Thankful Village' Click (& scroll down - quite along way - to 'Lucky Little Sodbury.' NigelS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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