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Famed as the birthplace of modern industry and the first cast iron metal single span bridge, Ironbridge is venerated the world over yet its social history is at times unfamiliar.
One hundred years ago this sleepy town, set by the river Severn, willingly volunteered its lifeblood to a war that everyone confidently believed would be a short-lived, adventurous romp. Misled by government propaganda, they soon discovered through fighting relatives letters and various official news reports, many of which are unearthed for the first time throughout this book, that it had rapidly degenerated into an endless morass of bloody violence with the probability of their men meeting a painful death on a daily basis thrown in for good measure.
The towns wartime heritage is one of enterprise and hard work as the majority of the Great War gun-fodder comprised working-class men drawn from prestigious local companies. Maw & Co, the world-famous ceramic tile maker, raised its own company of enlisted fighting men, in common with other businesses nationwide, that were known as Pals Battalions. As in most instances across the land, it subsequently paid a heavy price for this mass act of patriotism. Ironbridge also became a cradle of the fledgling womens wartime workforce, who helped produce vital heavy munitions components at another famous local companys works.
Ironbridge in the Great War is the story of the towns great sacrifice, as evidenced by the numerous and diverse war monuments that populate the town and its surrounding hamlets. This is detailed work that includes fascinating facts about the town, which, despite being constantly under the world spotlight, remained, until now, a part of its hidden wartime social history.

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Your Towns and Cities in the Great War
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Ironbridge
in the Great War
This book is respectfully dedicated to all the Ironbridge-area service personnel who were sacrificed to a futile war.
Your Towns and Cities in the Great War
Ironbridge in the Great War Christopher W A Owen First published in Great - photo 2
Ironbridge
in the Great War
Christopher W A Owen
First published in Great Britain in 2018 by Pen Sword Military An imprint of - photo 3
First published in Great Britain in 2018 by
Pen & Sword Military
An imprint of
Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Yorkshire Philadelphia
Copyright Christopher W A Owen 2018
ISBN 978 1 78346 400 5
eISBN 978 1 47386 610 2
Mobi ISBN 978 1 47386 609 6
The right of Christopher W A Owen to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
A CIP record for this book is available from the British Library
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Contents
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Acknowledgements
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To those parties and organisations listed below who made this book possible, with special thanks to the following for their help:
Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust Library staff, and registrar Joanne Smith, for local industrial history and the use of copyrighted period photographs
Janet Doody , local historian, for local history contributions
Martin Scholes , journalist, ex- Wrekin News Magazine for factual material
Mr Ronald Miles , historian, for his contribution of family documents and stories
Rev Ian Naylor , priest in charge, Holy Trinity Church, Coalbrookdale, for historical material about the church and associated local serving men
Mrs Diane Browne , headmistress of Adcote School, for all her help with the background to the Darby/Arthur family plus use of photo material supplied
Mr David Mumford , warden of St Martins Church, Little Ness, for his cooperation and help with the contribution to the history of the Darby family in the First World War
Lieutenant Colonel T.J. Boxall and R.M. Millward , Wrekin District Roll of Honour (biographies)
(All permissions and copyrights sought and agreed for materials reproduced here)
List of Abbreviations
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AEF
American Expeditionary Force
ANZAC
Australian & New Zealand Army Corps
BEF
British Expeditionary Force
DORA
Defence of the Realm Act (1914 amended 1915)
KSLI
Kings Shropshire Light Infantry (regiment)
The Journal
The Wellington Journal & Shrewsbury News
VAD
Volunteer Aid Detachment (Nursing auxiliary)
Introduction
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It is now more than a century since the outbreak of the war to end all wars. It was contested over four and a half bitter and bloody years commencing, for the UK, at 11pm on 4 August 1914 and officially ending at 11am on 11 November 1918.
Such was the carnage resulting from this the first mechanised global war that this legendary date is still commemorated every year in London and in little towns like Ironbridge all over the UK. It is known as Armistice Day along with its companion Remembrance Sunday, held on the nearest Sunday to that date.
Scale map of European military alliances circa 1914 Ironbridge area was to - photo 8
Scale map of European military alliances, circa 1914
Ironbridge area was to suffer some 107 recorded fatalities, thus paying a terrible price for its patriotism. In this book we will discover what this entailed for some of those locally enlisted combatants and their families. We shall include their material sacrifices suffered at home and in the aftermath, the memorials raised in tribute to the fallen in Ironbridge and the four surrounding villages.
The Great War was also called the Peoples War because it was fought and won mainly by the UKs ordinary working classes. They joined as voluntary or conscripted enlistees, as did the majority of those from the Ironbridge area, who then might find themselves fighting alongside peers of the realm.
Most major world nations were soon drawn into what was to eventually cost an estimated 31 million casualties, civilian and military. Britain was to suffer 870,000 dead, 3 million wounded, and the rest captured or listed as missing in action bringing the total to some 4.7 million. These statistics do not include subsequent deaths from war-related injuries possibly occurring many years after the cessation of hostilities. Over 44 per cent of those enlisted in UK forces were either killed, injured, captured or missing with no known grave.
The total recorded British fatality figures rises to 1.3 million when we include Commonwealth service personnel fighting under the British Empires flag.
The 108 listed fatalities for Ironbridge excludes the number of captured servicemen. We will include local soldiers whose stories of captivity are recounted in this book for the first time, as well as the winner of a Victoria Cross.
Details of all war-related fatalities are shown in the A-Z listings of local service personnel casualties shown in the back of this book. For anyone researching their family history this would be a useful first resource tool.
Britain, France and Russia were matched against the main antagonists of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy, Bulgaria and Turkey. The war did not suddenly erupt spontaneously from nowhere. It had been brewing for many years across a Europe which had become a seething cauldron of fermenting skirmishes and localised wars, particularly in the Balkans.
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