John Langton, himself a prominent gentleman, called them “a light-hearted set of dare devils and the greatest rascals and thieves that ever a peaceful country was tormented with.”

Mark Fell grew up near Bury’s Green, his father died when he was young and he joined the military during the Great War to escape his unfortunate situation.

When Anne Langton used her imagination to depict a bird’s eye view of the village, a few inspired artists and photographers had done what they could to see the world from above.

By early November 1918, it was becoming clear that the German Army was on its last legs and that the Great War might mercifully come to an end.