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This book lists alphabetically the names of those who lost their lives during during the Great War of 1914-1918 and includes details of family background and personal history with regard to regiment and occupation, place of birth and death etc and as it states on the cover is the first major project to commemorate the war dead of Meath. It also states that over five hundred men from the county died in the conflict and are buried in graveyards from Basra to Bermuda and everywhere in between. Looked at from the casualties broken down by area, towns like Navan, Trim and others lost a good many of their youngest men, mostly forgotten. The changing political scene from 1916 onward must have seen a great deal of recruitment onto the nationalist side and it would be interesting to know what sort of records exist in this regard. Noel French is to be commended for compiling this list and a similar one for those who perished in that civil war of about fifty years earlier might be of interest. Published by the History Press Ireland, The Meath War Dead retails at €20 Euro. All good bookshops as they say!
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