Acknowledgements

I have been helped by so many people that I cannot acknowledge them all here. I have tried to thank those who have assisted this work either in the text or in the Reference Section at the back of the second book.

There are a number of people, however, who have given me consistent and vital support. I must first mention Jon Abbott of the Ringstead Heritage Group who has freely shared photographs, stories and introductions to descendants of the men. He also provided a copy of the original Ringstead Roll of Honour and helped with the map of Rows and Yards. I must also thank Kay Collins, Project Coordinator of Rushden Research, and the Rushden Heritage Group, for the use of the photographs and articles in Rushden newspapers on the Ringstead WW1 men.

The other major source for the stories has been the Absent Voters’ Lists for 1918 and 1919 which were held by the Northamptonshire Record Office. I have missed my visits there during the Covid 19 Lockdown.

The members of the Great War Forum website have been invaluable in providing doorways out of blind alleys time after time. Without their help these books would have been very much shorter and lacking many men’s service details. I have tried to thank each one of the members in the text and the references.

David Ball