Here we have this Wonderful publication on CD ROM entitled RUTLAND & THE GREAT WAR, A lasting tribute to a great & noble part.

This record was begun in March 1919, to put into permanent form the Rolls of Honour which had been supplied to every parish by Lord Ranksborough, the Lord Lieutenant, and it is due to him & Mr Corby, the high sheriff, that it has been possible to produce the volume which has now been completed.

CONTENTS

BIOGRAPHY OF MAJOR GENERAL LORD RANKSBOROUGH C.B., C.V.O LORD LIEUT

BIOGRAPHY OF JOHN EDWARD CORBY ESQ, HIGH SHERIFF OF RUTLAND 1916-19

RUTLAND & THE GREAT WAR "A GENERAL REVIEW" COMPRISING OF, SITUATION OF OF RUTLAND - IT'S CLAIM TO DISTINCTION - THE OUTBREAK OF WAR - THE TERRITORAILS - LEICESTERSHIRE YEOMANRY - THE RESERVISTS - THE REGIMENTS IN WHICH RUTLAND MEN FOUGHT - OUR MEN IN THE NAVY & MERCANTILE MARINE - WHERE OUR MEN FOUGHT AND DIED - OUR MEN IN THE AIR FORCE - RUTLAND MEN FROM THE COLONIES - THE TOLL OF THE WAR ON THE MALE POPULATION - AN ANALYSIS OF EACH PARISH - WHY WE GOT SO LITTLE INFORMATION FROM THE FRONT - THE MEANING OF MODERN WARFARE - THE FIRST BATTLE OF YPRES - THE FINE ACTION OF THE LEICESTERSHIRE YEOMANRY AT THE SECOND BATTLE OF YPRES - THE 5TH LEICESTERS - MECHANICAL TRANSPORT DIFFICULTIES  IN MESOPOTOMIA IN 1916 - FROM JERUSALEM TO JERICHO

VISIT TO THE BATTLEFIELDS OF BELGIUM

BIOGRAPHIES OF THE FALLEN (HERE IS AN EXAMPLE)

POLLARD PTE GEORGE, Son of Mr & Mrs George Pollard of Barrowden, joined in the Grenadier Guards September 28th 1916, and was sent out to France in March the following year.  He went through the fighting with the Guards at the third battle of Ypres and was in the attack when they drove their way through Bourlon Wood in spite of a desperate resistance from a German line, including several battalions of Prussian Guards, which resulted in gaining a valuable stretch of the Hindenburg line.

He was killed instantly by shrapnel near the village of Ribecourt, September 28th 1918, and was buried in Hill Cemetery, north west of Flesquires, near Cambrai. Hos C.O writes to his parents: "Your son behaved most gallantly under very trying circumstances"

Further reading;

THE SCOTT FAMILY OF SOLDIER SONS

ROLLS OF FALLEN HEROES & ROLLS OF HONOUR

RUTLAND VOLUNTEER TRANING CORPS

RUTLAND SPECIAL CONSTABLES

RUTLAND A.S.C. MOTOR TRANSPORT

UPPINGHAM SCHOOL WAR RECORD

OAKHAM SCHOOL WAR RECORD

WOMEN'S WORK ON THE LAND

AGRICULTURE & FOOD PRODUCTION

RED CROSS & V.A.D HOSPITAL WORK

PATRIOTIC EFFORTS; THE WAR SAVING CAMPAIGN, QUEEN MARY'S NEEDLEWORK GUILD, NATIONAL EGG COLLECTION

THE RUTLAND WAR PENSIONS COMMITTEE & IT'S WORK

THE COTTESMORE HUNT AND THE WAR

THE KING OF THE BELGIANS' STABLES IN OAKHAM

HONOURS, DISTINCTIONS, AND RECOGNITION OF SERVICES

LOCAL WAR MEMORIALS

ILLUSTRATIONS

LIEUT COL THE HON P.C. EVANS-FREKE, PORTRAIT

MAJOR GENERAL LORD RANKSBOROUGH, C.B. C.V.O.

JOHN EDWARD CORBY ESQ

RUTLAND TROOP "A" SECTION SQUADRON LEICESTERSHIRE YEOMANRY

OAKHAM COMPANY 5TH BATTALION. LEICESTERSHIRE REGIMENT LEAVING EN ROUTE FOR LOUGHBOROUGH

A SCOUT, THE "SNIPE"

MAP OF THE ALLIED LINE FROM NOYON TO THE COAST

WHERE GHELUVELT USED TO STAND, ON THE ROAD TO MENIN

MENIN GATE; LEAVING YPRES IN THE DIRECTION OF HOOGE AND ZILLEBEKE

ALL THAT IS LEFT OF HOOGE: THE SIGNBOARD

COL C.H. JONES, C.M.G., T.D.

ARMENTIERES

ENTRANCE TO WYTSCHAETE

RUINS OF LOCRE AND ROUGE HILL

KEMMEL HILL

KEMMEL CHURCH AND VILLAGE IN RUINS

THE "PLAINE D'AMOUR" WITH YPRES IN THE DISTANCE, DEVASTATED BY WAR

AMONG THE RUINS AT MESSINES

LE CLYTTE ROAD AND THE MONT ROUGE

LOCRE RAOD AT KEMMEL AND KEMMEL HILL

KEMMEL HILL; PHOTO, FROM THE ROAD TO KEMMEL AT LE CLYTTE

MESSINES ROAD - MESSINES RIDGE

RUINS OF NIEUPORT: DUNKERQUE STREET

FIRST LINE OF BELGIAN TRENCHES

POELCAPPELLE: THE ROAD FROM LANGEMARCK TO DIXMUDE

DESTROYED BRITISH TANK SUNK IN THE MUD AT THE ENTRANCE TO POELCAPPELLE

LANGEMARCK, WITH THE DESTROYED TANK

TANK CEMETERY

BOESINGHE RUINED CHATEAU AND DEVASTED PARK

OBSERVATION PORT

RUINS OF ZONNEBEKE VILLAGE

WHAT WAS ONCE PASSCHENDAELE

THE CLOTH HALL, YPRES - BEFORE THE WAR

THE CLOTH AT YPRES - AFTER THE WAR

RUINS OF ST PETER'S CHURCH, YPRES

ENTRANCE TO YPRES, YPRES CANAL AT BOESINGHE FROM RUE DE DIXMUDE, YPRES

THE "HOSPICE BELLE", RUE DE LILLE, YPRES

THE TEMPLARS, HOUSE IN THE RUE DE LILLE

BATTERIE WILHELM 11, KNOCKE

THE MOLE AT ZEEBRUGGE

BRITISH CEMETERY BEHIND THE PRISON, YPRES

BRITISH CEMETERY JUST OUTSIDE YPRES, ON THE ROAD TO MENIN

BRITISH CEMETERY AT ZILLEBEKE

FRAGMENT OF CEMETERY, CONTAINING 20,000 GRAVES AT BOESCHEPE, ON THE ROAD TO POPERINGHE

BRITISH CEMETERY AT THE ENTRANCE TO PLOEGSTEERT

PORTRAITS OF THE FALLEN

PLATE i        ASHWELL, COTTESMORE, BARROW & BURLEY

PLATE ii       AYSTON, BELTON AND RIDLINGTON

PLATE iii      BISBROOK, GLASTON, MORCOTT AND PILTON

PLATE iv      BRAUNSTON, BROOKE, EGLETON AND HAMBLETON

PLATE v      CALDECOTT, LYDDINGTON, SEATON AND THORPE

PLATE vi     GREAT AND LITTLE CASTERTON, PICKWORTH AND TICKENCOTE

PLATE vii    EDITHWESTON, EMPINGHAM AND NORMANTON

PLATE viii   EXTON AND WHITWELL

PLATE ix    KETTON

PLATE x     KETTON, TINWELL AND TIXOVER

PLATE xi    LANGHAM AND BARLEYTHORPE

PLATE xii   NORTH AND SOUTH LUFFENHAM AND BARROWDEN

PLATE xiii  LYNDON, MANTON, PRESTON AND WING

PLATE xiv MARKET OVERTON, GREETHAM, CLIPSHAM. STRETTON AND THISTLETON

PLATE xv  OAKHAM

PLATE xvi OAKHAM

PLATE xvii  OAKHAM

PLATE xviii  OAKHAM

PLATE xix    OAKHAM

PLATE xx     RYHALL, ESSENDINE AND BELMISTHORPE

PLATE xixa  OAKHAM, GREAT CASTERTON, RYHALL, WING, BARLEYTHORPE, WHISSENDINE AND KETTON

PLATE xxi    UPPINGHAM

PLATE xxii   UPPINGHAM

PLATE xxiii  UPPINGHAM, HAMBLETON, MARKET OVERTON, WHISSENDINE AND NORTH LUFFENHAM

PLATE xxiv   WHISSENDINE

THE SCOTT FAMILY OF SOLDIER SONS

BRITISH CEMETERY ON THE PLOEGSTEERT ROAD AT MESSINES

ASHWELL CHURCH

AYSTON CHURCH

BARLEYTHORPE VILLAGE

BARROW CHURCH

BARROWDEN CHURCH

BELTON CHURCH

BISBROOKE CHURCH

BRAUNSTON CHURCH

BROOKE CHURCH

BURLEY ON THE HILL CHURCH

CALDECOTT CHURCH

GREAT CASTERTON CHURCH

LITTLE CASTERTON CHURCH

CLIPSHAM CHURCH

COTTESMORE CHURCH

EDITHWESTON CHURCH

EGLETON CHURCH

EMPINGHAM CHURCH

ESSENDINE CHURCH

EXTON CHURCH

GLASTON CHURCH

GREETHAM CHURCH

HAMBLETON CHURCH

KETTON CHURCH

LANGHAM CHURCH

NORTH LUFFENHAM CHURCH

SOUTH LUFFENHAM CHURCH

LYDDINGTON CHURCH

LYNDON CHURCH

MANTON CHURCH

MARKET OVERTON CHURCH

MORCOTT CHURCH

NORMANTON CHURCH

OAKHAM CHURCH (INTERIOR)

OAKHAM CHURCH

OAKHAM CHURCH AND CASTLE

PICKWORTH CHURCH

PILTON CHURCH

PRESTON CHURCH

RIDLINGTON CHURCH

RYHALL AND BELMISTHORPE CHURCH

SEATON CHURCH

STOKE DRY CHURCH

STRETTON CHURCH

TEIGH CHURCH

THISTLETON CHURCH

THORPE BY WATER VILLAGE

TICKENCOTE CHURCH (INTERIOR)

TINWELL CHURCH

TIXOVER CHURCH

UPPINGHAM CHURCH

UPPINGHAM SCHOOL CHAPEL

WARDLEY CHURCH

WHISSENDINE CHURCH

WHITWELL CHURCH

WING CHURCH

OFFICERS OF THE 1ST BATTALION. RUTLAND VOLUNTEER REGIMENT

OAKHAM VOLUNTEER TRAINING CORPS 1915

RUTLAND VOLUNTEERS "B" COMPANY

RUTLAND VOLUNTEERS "C" COMPANY

RUTLAND VOLUNTEERS "D" COMPANY

INSPECTION BY FIELD MARSHALL LORD FRENCH OF THE RUTLAND VOLUNTEERS AND SPECIAL CONSTABLES

INSPECTION BY FIELD MARSHALL LORD FRENCH OF THE RUTLAND A.S.C. MOTOR TRANSPORT

UPPINGHAM SCHOOL CHAPEL

UPPINGHAM SCHOOL O.T.C. INSPECTED BY FIELD MARSHAL LORD FRENCH

UPPINGHAM SCHOOL METAL WORKSHOP

OAKHAM SCHOOL HOUSE

OAKHAM SCHOOL O.T.C. INSPECTED BY FIELD MARSHAL LORD FRENCH

MISS SYLVIA BROCKLEBANK

THE COTTESMORE HUNT KENNELS, OAKHAM TRAINING CENTRE

MARCHIONESS OF LONDONDERRY

AT THE WOMEN'S LEGION AGRICULTURAL COMPETITION AT SPRINGFIELD, OAKHAM

FRUIT BOTTLING (AGRICULTURAL SECTION)

WOMEN'S LEGION ARGICULTURAL COMPETITION AT SPRINGFIELD (GROUP)

COL JOHN GRETTON M.P.

THE "VICTORY" HORSE SHOW, OAKHAM

NURSES INSPECTION AT BURLEY ON THE HILL

THE HON. MRS GRETTON

UPPINGHAM V.A.D. HOSPITAL

HAMBLETON HALL HOSPITAL (GROUP)

BURLEY HALL

HOSPITAL GROUP AT MRS BLACKETT'S, MANTON

STAPLEFORD HALL

MEMBERS OF THE RUTLAND V.A.D. DETACHMENT WORKING IN GRAYINGWELL WAR HOSPITAL, CHICHESTER.

MR E.E. WALKER

MR B.A. ADAM

MR GEORGE PHILLIPS

LORD LONSDALE

"VICTORY" MEET, OAKHAM

KING OF THE BELGIANS' ROYAL CARRIAGE

MAJOR QUINAUX

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