From the community of Northlew on Dartmoor which lost a larger proportion of its men than anywhere in Britain, to the charmed village of Herodsfoot in South East Cornwall where they all came home, the accounts were human, compelling and deserv
Some, such as Herodsfoot in Cornwall, have a memorial honouring the dozen or so names of those who served and returned, including Private Herbert Medland, whose daughter Vera Sandercock still lives in the village. But the evidence is not alway