Alan Knutson wrote: > Perhaps they were the ones killed in action. They all came home. That's why Shapwick is one of the Thankful Villages. There's only 51 of them. There's one where all the men who served in WWII also all came home. http://www.hellfirecorner.co.uk/thankful.htm Shapwick sent 32 men. There's only one other place that sent more who all returned. That was in Lancashire. Rebecca