| Matlock & Matlock Bath : The War Memorials |
| Commemorating Matlock's and Matlock Bath's War Casualties |
To acknowledge the service to their country of those who had given their lives and to help future generations remember
their sacrifice, two large war memorials were constructed in Matlock and Matlock Bath at the end of the First War.
Memorials were also built at Scarthin and Starkholmes.
After the Second World War the names of the Casualties were added.
A smaller Memorial has been placed on the Hall Leys in more recent times.
We will remember them
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More on site records or information
 Further Information in the Matlock & Matlock Bath section of this website:
- The Vernon Lamb Archive,
A Unique Photographic Record of Matlock and District, 1910-1915, and World War One Soldiers
The War images show soldiers in the 2/6th Sherwood Foresters, who may have come from other parts of Derbyshire. The Regiment was
briefly based at Chesterfield and then stationed at Buxton for a short time before moving away.
- The Boer War.
It is not known if any Matlock men died during the Boer war but some served in the Army.
See: Slater and Brunt of Matlock Bank (John William Slater).
- Empire Day Parade, 1914
The National Reserve was formed before the First World War. The page gives details of the Matlock men who participated in the parade
taken from a contemporary newspaper report, and some notes on joining up and conscription elsewhere on this site.
- There is a page of newspaper cuttings elsewhere on this site, containing details on both Matlock
and Matlock Bath and their War effort as well as some reports of the missing or casualties. The two newspapers, The High
Peak News and The Derbyshire Times, regularly carried very full reports about the casualties and some local men who
were serving made fairly regular contributions to these papers. Reports also appeared in the Derbyshire Courier and the
Derby Daily Telegraph.
- Matlock Bath Men Serving King and Country, 1914.
Two lists of names, published in September and November 1914.
- Matlock Men Serving King and Country, 1916. A list
from the Parish Magazine (of St. Giles') showing all those who enlisted between August 1914 and January 1916.
- Matlock Bath: Soldiers Billeted at Cromford Court in WW2
- Matlock: Starkholmes VE Day Celebration / Welcome Home, 1945. Neighbours
welcoming home a Prisoner of War at the end of WW2.
- Matlock MIs
Some of those commemorated on the memorials are also remembered on headstones or plaques in the churchyards.
- Find them in a census
1891 census transcripts | 1901
census transcripts
- Contributions to the Patriotic Fund, 1854
Fundraising to help the needy of the Crimean War - and the Napoleonic Wars some fifty years before then.
- Books & Other Publications
Includes details of the latest book "THE BATH AT WAR".
- Matlock Bath Today (6)
Includes a photograph of the memorial in the snow, 2010.
Elsewhere on The Andrews Pages:
 Darley
Dale War Memorial
 Lea
and Holloway War Memorial (also Dethick)
 War Graves
 General Redvers H. Buller's V.C.
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