Put the
Alnwick Absent Voters list up, still a few to add in the next day or two, plus I have to make another trip to the archives as I'm missing half of Denwick. drat.
1,122 names but possibly 4 are duplicate so 1,118 souls total. Lots of ex-Northern Cyclist Battalion men in there. Only one identified Tunneller, and one 'special co' man Royal Engineers, those special companies deployed some of our poison gas weapons.
When you think about the number of men from Alnwick killed prior to spring 1918, plus the even larger number of men discharged with wounds, then add these men still serving, then you get a picture of the scale of this disaster we call WW1