Post by BereniceUK on Apr 17, 2017 19:06:43 GMT
The whole of Church Avenue, from the Lych Gate to War Memorial, and including the hillside below, was presented to St. Mary’s Church in 1920 by Lawrence Rawstorne and Arthur Fish. The small stone cross was then placed on an ancient pedestal, which was removed a few yards northwards from its original position to mark the junction of the two gifts of land. www.penwortham-stmary.co.uk/history%2011.html
The stone on the left makes reference to Mr. Rawstorne's gift of part of Church Avenue to the church as being a memorial to Lawrence Rawstorne, of the 7th Hussars, and to Thomas Geoffrey Rawstorne.
Captain Lawrence Rawstorne, 7th Hussars. Died of enteric fever at Gibraltar, November 1905.
Captain Thomas Geoffrey Rawstorne, 1st/1st Lancashire Hussars. Died of wounds received in action on 31st July 1917. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Rawstorne, of Hutton Hall, Lancashire.
Major T. G. Rawstorne, Lancashire Hussars (Dolwen, Newbridge-on-Wye), whose death on July 31st of wounds, received in action the same day, as reported in our last issue. He was the only surviving son of Mr and Mrs Rawstorne, of Hutton Hall. Lancashire. Born in 1879, be was educated at Evelyn's and Eton (Mr Somerville's), where he won the school mile, and at Magdalen, Oxford. He joined the Yeomanrv in 1908. was promoted captain in August, 1914, and Major in June, 1916. He went to France when the first squadron of his regiment was ordered abroad in November, 1915, and was invalided home as the result of an accident after the Somme battles in July of last year. He only returned to France four weeks before his death. Major Rawstorne married in 1907 Margery, elder daughter of Sir William Portal, to whom the deepest sympathy is extended. His elder brother, Captain Lawrence Rawstorne, 7th Hussars, died of typhoid fever on his way home from South Africa in 1905.
(Brecon and Radnor Express, 16 August 1917)
The stone on the left makes reference to Mr. Rawstorne's gift of part of Church Avenue to the church as being a memorial to Lawrence Rawstorne, of the 7th Hussars, and to Thomas Geoffrey Rawstorne.
Captain Lawrence Rawstorne, 7th Hussars. Died of enteric fever at Gibraltar, November 1905.
Captain Thomas Geoffrey Rawstorne, 1st/1st Lancashire Hussars. Died of wounds received in action on 31st July 1917. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Rawstorne, of Hutton Hall, Lancashire.
Major T. G. Rawstorne, Lancashire Hussars (Dolwen, Newbridge-on-Wye), whose death on July 31st of wounds, received in action the same day, as reported in our last issue. He was the only surviving son of Mr and Mrs Rawstorne, of Hutton Hall. Lancashire. Born in 1879, be was educated at Evelyn's and Eton (Mr Somerville's), where he won the school mile, and at Magdalen, Oxford. He joined the Yeomanrv in 1908. was promoted captain in August, 1914, and Major in June, 1916. He went to France when the first squadron of his regiment was ordered abroad in November, 1915, and was invalided home as the result of an accident after the Somme battles in July of last year. He only returned to France four weeks before his death. Major Rawstorne married in 1907 Margery, elder daughter of Sir William Portal, to whom the deepest sympathy is extended. His elder brother, Captain Lawrence Rawstorne, 7th Hussars, died of typhoid fever on his way home from South Africa in 1905.
(Brecon and Radnor Express, 16 August 1917)