Table of Contents
Introduction 7
Chapter 1 Recruits needed 12
Chapter 2 Prove your skill; try and reach the Cumberland coast 16
Chapter 3 Carrying on essential production 25
Chapter 4 We will not go to war 29
Chapter 5 Acton VC, an Orangeman in Whitehaven 32
Chapter 6 The area's gallantry; the VC 36
Chapter 7 St Bees School VCs 41
Chapter 8 Bertie Blair 47
Chapter 9 Whitehaven town war memorials 50
Chapter 10 Baden Powell Thornthwaite and John Burney 62
Chapter 11 Memorials, St Bees 66
Chapter 12 Memorials, West Cumberland A-Z 71
Chapter 13 Railway men Remembered 96
Chapter 14 Words of War 99
Chapter 15 Wartime refugees in Cumberland 102
Chapter 16 The Yellow Earl 110
Chapter 17 Women behind the military 115
Chapter 18 Those at home are thinking of us 122
Chapter 19 Two PoW camps, and Cumberland PoWs in Germany 124
Chapter 20 Armistice and Peace 128
Appendix: Border Regiment during WWI, actions and movements 133
Sources 139
Index 140
