Post by BereniceUK on Apr 18, 2017 14:51:19 GMT
Written and compiled by Elizabeth Bannister. Softback, 262 pages in large format, self-published in 2002. The only place I've seen it advertised for sale is on ebay.
The publication date means, I think, that most, if not all, of the research would pre-date the development of the internet. In which case this book is a wonderful effort, "a tribute to the men of Southport who gave their lives in the Great War." You get potted biographies, some men's photographs, details of which memorials their name appears on and the dates of the reports of their demise in the local newspaper. But no Elizabeth Blackburn, WRAF, who shares a CWGC headstone with her husband in St Cuthbert's churchyard, Churchtown, despite her being a Southport native and living in the town at the time of her death.
Something else I spotted was the R.A.O.B. memorial in Duke Street Cemetery (R.A.O.B. is the abbreviation for Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes, not, as Ms. Bannister states on four occasions, Royal and Ancient Order of Buffaloes) which has six names on it. Only five of the men are included in the book but the sixth presumably has a strong connection with Southport, yet he's not in it.
So it's not a book I'm going to recommend unreservedly. I have no connection with Southport, yet I've found a name that should be in the book and another that may be.
The publication date means, I think, that most, if not all, of the research would pre-date the development of the internet. In which case this book is a wonderful effort, "a tribute to the men of Southport who gave their lives in the Great War." You get potted biographies, some men's photographs, details of which memorials their name appears on and the dates of the reports of their demise in the local newspaper. But no Elizabeth Blackburn, WRAF, who shares a CWGC headstone with her husband in St Cuthbert's churchyard, Churchtown, despite her being a Southport native and living in the town at the time of her death.
Something else I spotted was the R.A.O.B. memorial in Duke Street Cemetery (R.A.O.B. is the abbreviation for Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes, not, as Ms. Bannister states on four occasions, Royal and Ancient Order of Buffaloes) which has six names on it. Only five of the men are included in the book but the sixth presumably has a strong connection with Southport, yet he's not in it.
So it's not a book I'm going to recommend unreservedly. I have no connection with Southport, yet I've found a name that should be in the book and another that may be.