The 18ft Marble Memorial stands tall in the gardens of Our Lady and St Joseph’s Church in Carlisle, offering a testament to the 75 soldiers who died in the Great War. This was their starting point. Few details about those guys were known; not a scrap of paper could be found, and some of them are recalled only by their Christian names or initials. Who were they, exactly? What country did they come from? What were their ages? Were they a couple? What happened to them and how had they died?

The writers have meticulously traced the lives of 73 of these forgotten soldiers, all of whom sacrificed the ultimate sacrifice. After four years of diligent study. This book chronicles their parents, siblings, jobs, and, tragically, the final days leading up to their deaths.