Somme Battlefields WW1 Centenary website by Paul Reed. WW1 Centenary website by Paul Reed. Countdown To The Somme Centenary. A year from today it will be the centenary of the Battle of the Somme. While many of the battles and campaigns of 1915 have been largely ignored by the media this year, the Somme has become a by-word for the Great War to a wider public and the year 2016 is likely to be something of a repeat of 2014 which much interest, many new books and a host of related events.

Rescuing from oblivion the stories of those commemorated on the Parish War Memorial and of the families who lived alongside them. Killed in Action, date of death presumed as 25 September 1915, in Flanders,. Commemorated on the Loos Memorial. Killed in Action, 26 June 1918, in France.

Rescuing from oblivion Southern Africans who lost their lives while on active service in the wars of the 20th century. Died of influenza, 30 October 1918. At the South African Military Hospital in Richmond Park, . The grave of Frank Kidson, 2013. Which had sailed from London on. This party was allocated land in Beaufort Vale, .