Charles Beresford's interest in the Great War began as a boy when he heard that his Uncle, Private Jack Marlow of 7th Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment, the reipient of a white feather, had run away to join up under age and was killed at the Battle of Loos on 27th September 1915, a few days short of his 18th birthday.
When he and his family came to live in Matlock Bath in 1991 he was struck by the dignified and imposing War Memorial on the North Parade and decided to find out about the 22 men from the Great War whose names are inscribed in lead lettering on the granite base. It soon became clear that thje story to tell was much bigger than that.
He hopes that restoring the events and characters involved in that terrible war into modern memory will not only be of interest to local readers, and those futher afield but engender an appreciation of how the people of Matlock Bath, at all levels, squared up to the situation to their duty as they saw it and to ensure victory for Right over Might.
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