Stoke Hammond in bucks has a colourful thankful sign on the Village green On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 3:39 PM, Simon <simon@simonknott.co.uk> wrote: > Arthur Mee included Ovington on the original list, and although it has > no WWI memorial, recent research has shown that is is, unfortunately, > not to be thankful after all. > > On 12/11/2011 13:12, xpn11 wrote: > > The BBC news web site has an interesting article at the moment about > > "Thankful Villages" . This is the term which has been given to villages > > where all the service men and women who were in combat returned alive. A > > very few are doubly thankful in that servicemen and women from both WWI > > and WWII returned alive from the conflicts. From the map on the site > > drawn from current understanding , not one Norfolk village was untouched. > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15671943 > > Rosie > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NORFOLK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NORFOLK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >