The village of Claverton lost many of its men in the First World War.
Like almost every village in the country, most of the men joined up and swapped idyllic English countryside life for the horror of the trenches.
A group of women from the village got together recently and came up with the idea of creating a book about the Claverton men who fell.
Vi Jensen (below) said: "We wanted to bring their stories to life. They are not just a statistic, they are all men with a real story, with families and connections either in the village or further afield."
A war memorial at the church features the names of 12 men who fell, but there were a lot more as the parish was much larger then.
Ms Jensen said: "Our local history group did a lot of research on each of the men, to find out as much as we could about them, we wanted to bring them back to life."
The group concentrated on the men named on the memorial. The book, with a page devoted to each of the 12 men, will be placed in Saint Mary's church in the village in time for a special Remembrance service on Sunday, November 9. It will give details of each of the men, from research at the records office in Taunton, The Bath Chronicle and the national census.
One example is a Private William Joseph Briscoe, who was killed on 1st July 1916 during the first day of the Battle of the Somme.
His body was never recovered and his name is inscribed on the Thiepval Memorial (memorial to the missing of the Somme).
Records show his mother, a cook, lived in Claverton between 1914-17 with her family.
The Bath Chronicle of July 1915 reported a Private W Briscoe of 3 School Place, Claverton was fighting in France.
Anyone with information about war life in Claverton or the surrounding parishes, or who may be related to the fallen soldiers, can e-mail www.clavertonww1@btinternet.com .
