Lye and Wollescote Cemetery Chapels - The Lost Twenty Nine

Remembering the soldiers of the Great War buried and commemorated in the Lye and Wollescote Cemetery

Jean Weston + Marlene Price

Telling the stories of twenty nine mem who lost their lives in the Great War - of a family's search for a lieutenant missing on the Somme - a Shropshire Grenadier Guardsman commemorated in the Cemetery - the hero Private who volunteered when ammunition was low - and the tragic death of a young VAD nurse caring for the wounded in a local military hospital.

With detailed research and evocative imagery this book recounts vivedly the impact of a devastating war which began a century ago and is remembered poignantly today.