Chesterfield Sherwoods on the Somme

 

1st July - 18th November 1916

 

 

Derbyshire Village Memorials which honour men of the Sherwood Forester Battalions who were killed during the Battles of the Somme.

 

"And did you leave a wife or sweat heart behind

In some faithful heart is your memory enshrined?

Although you died back in 1916

In that faithful heart are you forever 19?"

[No Man's Land by Eric Bogle]

 

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Grassmoor Village Memorial Park

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Great Longstone Village Memorial

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Hasland Village Memorial

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Matlock Memorial and St Giles Church.

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Morton Village Memorial

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