Victoria Williams
In this World War I Armistice Centenary year, I have helped to coordinate a series of communitybased events in the village of Tarporley, Cheshire, to remember the 61 men and boys who are listed in the WW1 section of our war memorial.
In our little rural setting, the loss of 61 lives was a profound one and – via detailed accounts of Tarporley during the Great War, which I found in Chester Records Office – we have been able to create some personal and poignant biographies of nearly all of the village soldiers who died.