The Thankful Villages: Places Which Lost No-one in World War 1 - Oct 17, 2010 - 4:27 pm

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Many millions of people were killed in the First World War. Fewer than fifty UK villages lost no men and these have earned the title 'Thankful Villages'. The First World War has become a byword for death and destruction with whole towns and villages obliterated and millions of lives lost during the conflict which lasted from 1914 to 1918. Yet many men escaped the destruction and in the UK’s so-called Thankful Villages all of those who went to fight returned though not all of them came back unscathed.

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Mehar Gill