Relaunch of Craven's Part in the Great War Website.

[Wendyf]

Diary Date
Thursday 11th June at Skipton Town Hall 5-30 to 8-30.
Re-launch of the Craven’s Part in the Great War Website.
The original brief was to take the book “Craven's Part in the Great War” as its starting point and core source of information. Each entry in the book was expanded with additional information gathered from Soldiers Died in the Great War, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, and with further material from the pages of the Craven Herald & Wensleydale Standard, the West Yorkshire Pioneer & East Lancashire News (the two newspapers which covered the Skipton Parliamentary Division, and which eventually merged to become the Craven Herald & Pioneer), and other sources as deemed relevant. It also correlated the names in the original book with the names commemorated on War Memorials in the 'Craven' area.
The data was presented on the www.cpgw.org.uk website. This event is to launch the upgraded and much improved version of the site.
Earby and District Local History Society has been invited, together with other societies and organisations, to have a display stand at the event.
There will be a short address by military historian, Professor Peter Doyle.
Light refreshments available.
Come along if you can.

[chinatyke]

Was it a great war? Who was it great for?
Personally I get bored with people raking up past mistakes. And to those who say "but for us you wouldn't be here" I answer "look at Germany now. You backed the wrong side."
We'd have German work ethics and be driving Mercs and VWs.

[Wendyf]

Definition of great:
"Of an extent, amount, or intensity considerably above average".

The book "Craven's Part in the Great War" was published in 1920 by the Craven Herald newspaper and given to every family in the area who lost someone in the war. It gives details and photographs of those who died and nothing more. The website is committed to updating and adding to that information....not glorifying the war in any sense.

CPGW website