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Post by BereniceUK on Apr 12, 2017 8:45:22 GMT
Stockport Cricket ClubIn The Great War 1914 - 1918/ 128 Members of this Club/Joined His Majesty's Forces/and the following/made the Supreme SacrificeW.H. Bourne W. Brooks W.A. Cragg L.C. Emery E.L. Goodall H.M. Granger J.D. Green S. Heydon B. Horner J.B. Lister T.H. Penny C.B. Schofield L.F. Snape C. Slack ?.H. Staveacre W.C. YatesAt the going down of the sun and in the morning/we will remember themSacred also to the memory of C.P. Jackson P. PrattWho fell in the Second World War 1939 - 1945(Possibly G.P. Jackson?)"And these men died leaving their/death for an example of a/noble courage and a memorial/of virtue unto all the nation" 11 Macc(abes) VI.2"Sons of this place let this of you be said/That you who live are worthy of your dead/These gave their lives that you who live may reap/A richer harvest ere you fall asleep" Rev. T.E. Royde
"There's but one task for all/For each one life to give/Who stands if Freedom fall/Who dies, if England live" Rudyard Kipling
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