Keen listeners to today’s BBC Radio Derby’s afternoon program will have heard a fantastic piece on the role that a Sheldon family played during World War One.

Maria Gyte, a resident of the village during wartime, kept a detailed diary of village life and how the war touched her family. Her son, Tony Gyte, was called-up to the Army in May 1917 at the age of 19, and killed near Ypres in Belgium six months later.

Brian Greasley and Ann Lomas talked to BBC Radio Derby about our village, the village school at which Maria was headmistress, and her wartime diary; an extract of the program can be heard below.

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