WW1 EXHIBITION - 11th November 2018

GREAT ASHFIELD REMEMBERS

At 5pm Great Ashfield Village Hall hosted an exhibition of village life during WW1.

The centrepiece of this exhibition was a village map which highlighted the houses where villagers who served during the war lived at the time of the 1911 census.

Summaries of the lives of the 76 villagers who served during the war were complied and collated into four volumes available for all who attended the exhibition to read.

The Elmswell History Group produced an exhibition detailing the history of RAF Elmswell.

Villagers carrying 76 lanterns, each one comemorating the life of a villager who served during the war, walked to Great Ashfield Airfield for 7pm, where a bonfire was lit to serve as a beacon to align with the 1,000 beacons lit across the British countryside.

The importance of rememberance to Great Ashfield and the question of Village War Memorials is detailed in letters to the Bury Free Press from an ex soldier, in April & June 1920.

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Exhibition Visitors examining the Village Map