Coalville Times at War

Check out the ‘Whitwick in Print’ section to find the updated reports from the “Coalville Times” during The Great War, starting in August 1914. There are yearly reports covering the whole of the war with the preparations being made in the area, the local men who went to war and their letters home, reports of casualties, the groups that were set up to provide supples for the troops and photographs. Was your relative living in the area around this time, did your relative serve in the Great War. Also, further yearly reports are included after the war ended when meetings were held to design and build memorials to the war dead throughout the district, the return of prisoners of war, local men who were present at the Armistice and more.