Part Three: The Long Road to Victory (1917-18)
By 1917, the war had entered its third year. There was no illusion left – only duty and grim determination. Yet still, men from Geddington answered the call.
In that terrible spring, Levi Allsopp, George Hipwell, Roland Patrick, William Johnson, and Ernest Rawson were all killed within weeks of each other. Percy Ager fell a month later, one of many whose graves now lie in the fields of northern France.
Through the summer came the battles of Arras and Passchendaele, claiming Cecil Darker, George Hannan, George Rawson, and Robert Hector. As the fighting dragged into 1918, Alfred Moore, Frederick Townley, and George Piddington joined the list of the fallen, along with Sidney Price, who is remembered though his name does not appear on our village memorial.
In the final months, as the war drew to its bitter end, Frederick Tabrum, Bertie Dainty, Charles Townley, and Harold Walpole were lost – some just days before the Armistice was signed on 11 November 1918.
The guns finally fell silent, but for Geddington, as for so many villages across Britain, the silence carried the echo of names that would never be forgotten.
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We will remember them