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18743 Private Horace Pocklington, 2nd Leicestershire Regiment. Killed in action on 30th October 1916.
KILLED IN ACTION
POCKLINGTON, Pte. Horace, was killed in action, in Mesopotamia, at the end of October, after being out there about six months. A native of Leicester, he came into the Crosscrake parish about eight years ago, and was a farm servant at High House Farm and also at Raines Hall. He was of a quiet but cheerful disposition, and from the first entered into anything astir in the parish. He was a zealous member of the Crosscrake Church choir right up to his enlistment in the Leicestershire regiment.
(Westmorland Gazette, 25 November 1916)
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41852 Private John William Foster, 10th Yorkshire Regiment. 11th April 1917, aged 26. Son of William and Betsy Foster, of Sedbergh; husband of Elizabeth Ann Foster, of Field End, Stainton.
In memory of Pte. J. W. Foster, of Field End, Stainton, who fell in France during April, a memorial service was held in Crosscrake church on Wednesday afternoon. The attendance was a crowded one, and the service throughout was most impressive. The 39th Psalm was chanted, the choir being present, and the hymns sung were "There is a blessed home," "Thy way, not mine, O Lord," and "Christ will gather in His own." The lesson was from part of the 119th Psalm, and from the words read the Rev. A. E. Glover delivered some sympathetic remarks. Mr. H. Webster was at the organ.
(Westmorland Gazette, 12 May 1917)
KILLED IN ACTION
POCKLINGTON, Pte. Horace, was killed in action, in Mesopotamia, at the end of October, after being out there about six months. A native of Leicester, he came into the Crosscrake parish about eight years ago, and was a farm servant at High House Farm and also at Raines Hall. He was of a quiet but cheerful disposition, and from the first entered into anything astir in the parish. He was a zealous member of the Crosscrake Church choir right up to his enlistment in the Leicestershire regiment.
(Westmorland Gazette, 25 November 1916)
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41852 Private John William Foster, 10th Yorkshire Regiment. 11th April 1917, aged 26. Son of William and Betsy Foster, of Sedbergh; husband of Elizabeth Ann Foster, of Field End, Stainton.
In memory of Pte. J. W. Foster, of Field End, Stainton, who fell in France during April, a memorial service was held in Crosscrake church on Wednesday afternoon. The attendance was a crowded one, and the service throughout was most impressive. The 39th Psalm was chanted, the choir being present, and the hymns sung were "There is a blessed home," "Thy way, not mine, O Lord," and "Christ will gather in His own." The lesson was from part of the 119th Psalm, and from the words read the Rev. A. E. Glover delivered some sympathetic remarks. Mr. H. Webster was at the organ.
(Westmorland Gazette, 12 May 1917)