Books

Summary

The Lost Twenty Nine remembers the soldiers of the Great War, buried and commemorated in the Lye and Wollescote Cemetery.

The book tells the moving stories of 29 men who lost their lives in the war including:

• 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 the book recounts vividly the impact of a devastating war which began a century ago and is remembered poignantly today.