Our Boys 1914-1918

From the workhouse boy who became an early submariner to the officer who proved to be not quite a gentleman, all of life is here. Acts of Remembrance relating to the First World War often conjure up images of stone monuments, solemn churchyards, and ranks of gravestones marching across foreign fields. This book attempts to provide a glimpse of the 48 men from the Lower Windrush Valley in Oxfordshire in the villages, farms, and lanes where they lived and worked - with their families, plying their trade as craftsmen, or labouring in the fields. On their days off they would play with their chidren, promenade with their sweethearts, or just wink at the girls, like young men throughout the ages have always done.