Publications
Valiant Hearts of Ringmer: Ringmer village war memorial, by Geoffrey Bridger, published 1993 (103 pp., Ammonite Press, ISBN-10: 1898626006 & ISBN-13: 9781898626008) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/503477] & British Library & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries
Abstract:This book is an excellent example of what patient and painstaking research can do to the benefit of the life and social history of an English village. The author has taken the fifty-three names on the War Memorial (forty-two of them are of the Great War) and traced their background, their military service, the circumstances of their deaths and their place of burial or commemoration thus providing a short biography of each man. By this Mr Bridger has ensured, in the words on the altar of sacrifice in every Commonwealth War Grave cemetery and repeated in Lord Callaghan's Foreword, that "their name liveth for evermore". The front of the book is a lovely colour photo of the War Memorial on the village green. A fine tribute to fifty-three men who might otherwise have been forgotten with the passing of time.