Debt of Honour: Winchester City’s First World War Dead, by Jen Best

Incorporating notes and appendices, including a reprint of the Winchester War Service Register of those from the city who served. Edited, with an Introduction by Tom Beaumont James. Winchester city men served and died in all three services and in all theatres of war in the Great War. They joined a wide range of units from home and the colonies. However they have no engraved memorial of their names, unlike those from other towns and villages in Hampshire. Why? Through a brief introduction and reconstructed biographies under their names and their Winchester addresses this book commemorates their sacrifice, repaying a ‘Debt of Honour’ to these forgotten men a century on. The memorial biographies are accompanied by a reprint of the War Service Register for the city of Winchester which was a record published by the city in 1921 and believed to be a full record of those who served and died. November 2018, lvi, 407 pages, paperback, £14.95, ISBN 978-1-906978-65-5 (also available casebound, £19.95, ISBN 978-1-906978-66-2)