Worcestershire & Herefordshire

This is the story of two brothers of the Ferrers family of Baddesley Clinton in Warwickshire, and of Eric Walker whose family later owned the house. Francis Ferrers began as a lieutenant with 253 Tunnelling Company but was killed fighting as a Lance Corporal with 6th Lancashire Fusiliers in 1918. Cecil Ferrers remained in Malaya and following th...

  In this talk, Pete tells the story of his wife's great uncle, Frederick Thomas Yapp who, though born in Worcester in 1889, spent much of his early life in London.  Things were tough for the Yapp family in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.  As for many young men in such circumstances, the military was an escape from an austere existence s...

  Laying fallen British and Commonwealth service personnel to rest ‘where they fell’ was a principle initially established to deal with the unprecedented number of casualties of the Great War, buried in ‘foreign fields’. However, there were a number of repatriations during, and just after, that conflict, which seemed to breach that principle. Th...