WW1
From Lacey Green History
Click Wars for other conflicts and their local effect
The Boer War (the Anglo-Boer War). click 1900 A Spectacular Welcome for local interest
Click WW2 for more about this war locally
Click The Cold War
WW1 started on 28th July 1914 to end 11th November 1918
click Families with Fallen WW1 for local families who lost loved ones in WW1
click 1919 Men Serving WW1. List compiled by H C Avery, Head Master of Lacey Green School.
Mabel Janes reported - "During the First World War the Royal Engineers were billeted in the village. They took the small schoolroom and the Home Meadow at Stocken Farm, next to the school. The horses were stabled at the farm and exercises were done in the field. The farm dining room was made into an army hospital and the grain store into their blacksmith`s workshop.
click 1916 Horses taken by the Army for the details of this incident
click 1917 Plane lands near the school for details of this incident.
click 1918 Armistice Signed
click 1918 School Armistice Celebrations for details of the occasion
click 1919 Influenza Pandemic almost certainly carried back by the soldiers from the war.
click 2014 Reporting Local Life in 1914. This was compiled in 2014 for an exhibition by The Local History Group