It is very rare that the Parish Council donates money to bodies outside of Ticknall Village, but we had, along with all of Parish Councils in the region, a request from The Sherwood Foresters Regiment for a donation for a new war memorial for those who died in the 1914-1918 war.
The Sherwood Foresters Regiment was the largest regiment comprising of 140,000 men, the majority coming from each and every Parish in the Counties of Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, and 11,409 lost their lives. Of the many hundreds of Great War Memorials to be found in France and Belgium, not one is currently to be found to the memory of the Sherwood Foresters.
A prime location has been secured near the Tyne Cott Visitors Centre, Passchendaele, Ypres, in Belgium to place a memorial to be manufactured from Derbyshire stone that will cost £14,000. The committee have asked for donations and the Parish Council decided to contribute £100 towards the costs, as we believe many other local parishes have done as well. The Regiment provided a short, not complete list of some of the names of those who died, and these are, Archie James, William Woodward, William Henry Bloor, Richard Walter Dexter, James Holt, Wilfred Hyde, Draper Marriott, George Henry Marriott and Joseph Marriott.
