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Post by BereniceUK on Mar 30, 2017 15:17:44 GMT
(Westmorland Gazette, 7.2.1920)And, indeed, the cross was sited in the churchyard, a few yards from the crossroads. Do any of the inscribed walking sticks survive?Captain Miles Radcliffe 2nd Border Regiment, attached 1st Royal Scots Fusiliers 12.12.1914, aged 31 Son of Henry Miles and Eva Bertha Radcliffe; husband of Dorothy Kathleen Radcliffe, of "The Laurels" Hull Road, York11578 Private William Bainbridge 1st Border Regiment 21.8.1915, aged 28 Son of Frederick and Hannah Bainbridge, of 19, Strickland Place, Kendal18144 Private John Nelson Willacy 7th King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment) 25.7.1916, aged 21 Son of David and Mary Willacy, of Sedgwick14046 Private Albert Beswick 10th Cheshire Regiment 14.7.1916 18743 Private Horace Pocklington 2nd Leicestershire Regiment 30.10.1916 1789 Private John Pennington 1st/4th Border Regiment 22.10.1916 Son of William and Jane Pennington41852 Private John William Foster 10th Yorkshire Regiment 11.4.1917, aged 26 Son of William and Betsy Foster, of Sedbergh; husband of Elizabeth Ann Foster, of Field End, Stainton26866 Private George Ferguson 8th Border Regiment 10.4.1918
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Post by BereniceUK on Mar 30, 2017 15:18:22 GMT
Private Horace Pocklington. 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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