Further Information in the Matlock & Matlock Bath section of this website:

• The Vernon Lamb Archive,
  A Unique Photographic Record of Matlock and District, 1910-1915, and World War One Soldiers
  The War images show soldiers in the 2/6th Sherwood Foresters, who may have come from other parts of Derbyshire. The Regiment was stationed at Chesterfield and then at Buxton for a short time before moving away.
  
  
• The Boer War.
  It is not known if any Matlock men died during the Boer war but some served in the Army.
  See: Slater and Brunt of Matlock Bank (John William Slater).
  
  
• Empire Day Parade, 1914
  The National Reserve was formed before the First World War. The page gives details of the Matlock men who participated in the parade taken from a contemporary newspaper report, and some notes on joining up and conscription elsewhere on this site.
  
  
• There is a page of newspaper cuttings elsewhere on this site, containing details on both Matlock and Matlock Bath and their War effort as well as some reports of the missing or casualties. The two newspapers, The High Peak News and The Derbyshire Times, regularly carried very full reports about the casualties and some local men made fairly regular contributions to these papers. Reports also appeared in the Derbyshire Courier and the Derby Daily Telegraph.
  
  
• Matlock Bath Men Serving King and Country, 1914 lists some of those who enlisted at the outbreak of war.
  
  
• Matlock Bath: Soldiers Billeted at Cromford Court in WW2
  
  
• Matlock: Starkholmes VE Day Celebration / Welcome Home, 1945. Neighbours welcoming home a Prisoner of War at the end of WW2.
  
  
• Matlock MIs
  Some of those commemorated on the memorials are also remembered on headstones or plaques in the churchyards.
  
  
• Find them in a census
  1891 census transcripts | 1901 census transcripts
  
  
• Contributions to the Patriotic Fund, 1854
  Fundraising to help the needy of the Crimean War - and the Napoleonic Wars some fifty years before.
  
  
• Books & Other Publications
  Includes details of the latest book "THE BATH AT WAR".
  
  
• Matlock Bath Today (6)
  Includes a photograph of the memorial in the snow, 2010.

Elsewhere on The Andrews Pages:

• Darley Dale War Memorial
  
  
• Lea and Holloway War Memorial (also Dethick)
  
  
• War Graves
  
  
• General Redvers H. Buller's V.C.

External links (will open in a new window):

• The British Red Cross - First World War Volunteers. Many locals were VAD nurses or worked from home, undertaking such tasks as sock knitting.
• The Commonwealth War Graves Commission provide further details about those throughout the Commonwealth who died.
• The Great War. Life in 'The Bath'.
• The Royal British Legion supports ex servicemen.
• Tansley church website, originally written by Denys Gaskell. Some of those commemorated at Matlock are also remembered in Tansley Church. A brief account of each casualty is provided.