
The Stewkley Lads Fallen in the Second World War
ISBN 978-0-9563800-1-2 Stewkley Local History Group 2011
SLHG´s second publication, written by group member John Sheldon, with foreword by fellow group member Lieutenant Colonel Ingram Murray, contains 48 pages which completes the process of chronicling and honouring Stewkley´s fallen of the two World Wars, and “tells in the greatest possible detail the actual stories of the servicemen from Stewkley who died in World War II.”
” . . . . . war had moved on in technological terms, lessons were learned from the horrors of the Western front, leadership was more professional, and soldiers were no longer the cannon fodder of the 1914-18 trenches.”
Price: £4 locally or £7.50 inclusive of UK postage and packing.
The names of the fallen soldiers honoured in the book are as follows:
Private Raymond Brewer |
Private Theodore Faulkner |
Lance Corporal Edward Jones |
Sergeant Leonard Mead |
Private Eric Robinson |
Fusilier Sidney Wilson |