At the time of the Great War the Nottingham district today regarded as St Ann’s was divided into six parishes which had been created during the nineteenth century to encourage an expanding urban population to worship. By the middle of the last century with the population of inner-city Nottingham declining and church attendance falling, most of these parishes had disappeared through amalgamation or abolition. The area’s Anglican churches were demolished and currently only St Ann’s with Emmanuel remains active as a modern church which has replaced two earlier buildings demolished in the 1970s. Collecting and researching names is proving challenging. This project has relied extensively on war memorial data. A photograph of the missing St Ann’s memorial (301 names) has recently surfaced, that from St Bartholomew (153 confirmed fatalities) survived the building’s destruction and both appear on this website. However, similar evidence is unavailable across other parts of east Nottingham. Emmanuel’s memorial was lost during later twentieth century slum clearance and none were created at St Catharine's, St Luke's or St Mark's. The St Ann’s Virtual Memorial is being constructed from Nottingham Evening Post obituary entries, the CWGC Debt of Honour Register and other military sources, census data and Birth, Marriage and Death indexes. It is evident that over 500 Great War fatalities from the area encompassing modern St Ann’s are not commemorated anywhere else. David Nunn