Somme 100 Remembrance Events, Friday 1st July
Friday, July 1st marks 100 years since the commencement of the Battle of Somme – with 50,000 casualties, over 19,000 of them dead on the first day. 77 local men…
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War and Remembered Graves Update
One of the latest Remembered Graves uncovered and added to the strimming and cleaning rota is that of Horace Marshall, aged 24, died 16th July, 2015 and the son of…
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Unknown Roll of Honour discovered
There are a large number of Roll’s of Honour and Plaques in our local places of worship commemorating the fallen of both World Wars, where churches and chapels have merged…
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Photograph by Andrea Allan
We really like this photo by local photographer Andrea Allan and used with her permission, it was taken just before last November’s wreaths were removed.
Somme 100 Badges for sale
We have a limited number of RBL Poppy Appeal badges for sale to commemorate the centenary of the Battle of the Somme. They are £2.00 each in two designs plus…
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Jutland Centenary, 31st May, 2016
The Battle of Jutland was fought on 31st May and 1st June 1916. 14 British and 11 German ships were sunk with great loss of life. Over 6000 British lost…
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Somme Centenary – Friday, July 1st.
Our Events calendar lists both commemorative events at the Memorial, bugler at 7.30 am and full service at 10.45 am. We will update with further details over the next weeks,…
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We received these details from Nigel Glew, who is one of the volunteers transcribing and researching information on those interred in St.Peter’s Churchyard: “Flight Sgt No:1053096 Thomas Bows died on…
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The four panels on Bramley War Memorial currently have 505 names inscribed from Wars and Conflicts from 1914 to 2011. Since April 2015 we have been researching other local people,…
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