The First World War created some extraordinary friendships – we have all heard of the Christmas Truce, when soldiers put down their weapons to play football together. Here is one that ...
This register, entitled Knowle Men was kept by the Reverend Downing of Knowle Parish Church. It contains the names of every man from Knowle who enlisted in the First World ...
The end of the war in Europe
As the war drew to a close in April 1945 Knowle Parish Magazine says little about world events: nothing appears about the end of ...
Monday May 7th
A great day for Britain and her allies, and tomorrow will be a national holiday – VE Day – at last. Preparations are already being made in the ...
I know very little about my grandfather, I know he was born in or around Knowle and I have his soldiers small book and some papers relating to service in the ...
Knowle at the outbreak of the First World War was a typical small village in Warwickshire with good road communications, where agriculture and allied trades provided work for a large ...
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