{"product_id":"an-unremarked-sacrifice","title":"AN UNREMARKED SACRIFICE","description":"Jimmy Aspley (the author's wife's great-uncle!!) was the eldest son of a Rifleman father who died in Birmingham City Asylum aged 33. Mother and family impoverished; three Aspley brothers spent much time in a children's home in Coleshill, Warks. Family 'home' was in the warren of back-to-backs of Birmingham. Jimmy enlisted in July 1913, trained, posted to 'D' Company, 3\/Worcestershire. Book follows the battalion's role, from mobilisation until the end of December 1914. Based on battalion war diary, regimental history and three eye-witness accounts. The author has walked the ground where Jimmy Aspley became a victim of the German Artillery's 'daily hate', dying (without a marked grave) as a 19 year-old Old Contemptible. Was Jimmy's an 'Unremarked Sacrifice'? The commemorations uncovered by the author suggest this\u003cbr\u003ewas hardly so.","brand":"Tommies Guides","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":35042255962157,"sku":"9781908336798","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0262\/2357\/5085\/files\/9781908336798.jpg?v=1728939880","url":"https:\/\/www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk\/products\/an-unremarked-sacrifice","provider":"The Great British Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}