To mark the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, members of Meldreth Local History Group researched the men from the village who went to war and how the village was affected by the war.
A snapshot of the village in 1914
The men commemorated on Meldreth War Memorial
Village fund-raising during the Great War
Unshaded Windows at Meldreth Gas Works on Raid Night
The Late William Bill Wing (Senior) 1893-1994
Meldreth Local History Group's World War 1 Exhibition, 9th November 2014
Meldreth Soldier killed at the Battle of Ypres, 1915
Village Blacksmith, Parish Constable and First World War Soldier
A Meldreth Sailor lost at the Battle of Jutland
Killed on the opening day of the Battle of the Somme, 1916
Meldreth Soldier who fell at the Third Battle of Ypres, 1917
Captain, 1st/6th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers
Meldreth man killed at the Battle of the Somme, September 1916
Meldreth soldier injured at the Battle of Mons
A Meldreth Prisoner of War 1918
Meldreth Farm Labourer who survived the Great War
A Meldreth soldier in the Great War
Meldreth Brothers in Arms in the Great War
Meldreth Soldier Sent to India, 1916
Meldreth labourer captured during the Great War