Armistice means the ending of hostilities before peace negotiations start. At the end of the First World War several armistices were signed by different countries before the main agreement to end the war, now known as ‘The Armistice’, was signed between the Germans and the Allies on November 11th 1918, over four years after the war [...]
Between early August 1914, when the war started, and 1916 over 150 men from St James-the-Less had joined the armed forces and gone to war, nine were reported dead and numerous men injured. By the time the war ended, on November 11 1918, over four years after it started, 30 men from St James-the-Less were [...]
Before Rossendale and the nation could think of getting back to ‘normal’ after the war, a new, deadly, silent threat appeared during 1918. It was a lethal virus that attacked soldiers both in the trenches and returning home and the population in Britain. The new, deadly, silent threat was the ‘Spanish flu’ virus, a pandemic [...]
