
We enter Christmas in the midst of a national emergency that has brought great sacrifice and loss. But 106 years ago, the nation was beginning its first Christmas in a devastating war that took countless lives and was followed five years later by a global pandemic that cruelly targeted young people, in many cases the very people who had survived four years of fighting.
The Roll of Honour for Maldon lists 248 young men who died in the Great War. They represent all three services, and regiments up and down the country, but understandably there are many who served in our county regiment, the Essex Regiment, now represented by C (Essex) Company, the Royal Anglian Regiment.