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A MACABRE exhibition unveiled this week will reveal the wartime tragedies on the home front during WWI.
Time And Tide, which is being held at various locations across Britain until December 20, shows that while soldiers were being massacred abroad people were committing suicide at home.
The exhibition is the result of the examination of coroners’ reports on deaths between 1914 and 1918 in Lancaster and Morecambe.
One shows a lovesick 22-year-old woman from Sheffield, Eva Annie Wilcox, who threw herself off a pier and drowned in Morecambe Bay.
She was carrying a photograph of a soldier bearing the words: “George Wallis the only boy I ever loved.”
Another tells the story of Lancaster glazier John Hargreaves, 26, who poisoned himself in June 1916 after being rejected from the army on medical grounds.
His father Joseph Hargreaves told the inquest: “He was suffering from a complete breakdown in health. I brought him home.
He was shy and reserved and thought people were talking about him not being in the army.”
