A Family at War – the Whitaker family in WW1 – update
The Farnhill WW1 Volunteers project restricted itself to those men – service men and volunteers – who were named on the list compiled for Farnhill Parish Council early in 1916. However, it was always likely that we would find that some names had been missed off that list and the project had not been going long before people started to mention the name Thomas Fielding Whitaker.
Now that the project has completed the bulk of its work, it has been possible to research TF Whitaker and, in doing so, we have found that there were three men from the family, all of whom were involved in the war, one way or another.
This article updated in December 2020, with information about a sad centenary.
