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General => Armed Forces => World War One => Topic started by: Nick Carver on Tuesday 30 August 05 13:41 BST (UK)
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Does anyone know of this publication? I'm not sure of its full contents, but it does have a photo of my great uncle who died in WWI in his uniform together with a couple of paragraphs of information. My great uncle has no known grave which might be the qualification for entry into the book or it might be something to do with either Hull, the East Yorks Regiment or even as broad as Yorkshire itself.
If I can find out more about this publication, it will be possible to alert others to its existence who might be researching other people in the book. I must say it was a bit eerie looking at the picture of someone you've never seen before and seeing the spit image of your father as a young man.
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If you take a look at:
www.amazon.co.uk
.....and put 'Known to the night' in the Search box, you will find that the book is available for £9.99.
Good luck with your research!
Lyn S
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I found it at Abe Books - but much more than that!!!
http://dogbert.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?an=b+s+barnes&y=15&tn=known+to+the+night&x=58
Annie
It's in dollars - but still more than 9.99!!!!
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Just in case anyone is wondering, 'Known to the night' is part of a line in the poem by Lawrence Binyon that includes the moer often words "They shall not grow old, as we remember them..."
Thanks for the tip - had got the impression from my source that it was an old book, long out of print.
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On about the 30th page of a Google search, I discovered that 'Known to the Night' is primarily about those men from Reckitts, a major Hull employer at the time and was extended to cover men from the Sutton and Stoneferry areas of the city. If I get further information, I will post it here. I doubt if I will get the book as I have a copy of the entry for my relative and there were no further fatalities in that part of the family.