CONTAINED WITHIN ARE SOME DETAILS OF THE FOUR
VILLAGERS WHO’S NAMES APPEAR ON THE MEMORIAL
PLAQUE
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FRISBY’S FALLEN
WITH THE APPROACH OF THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE
OUTBREAK OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR OUR THOUGHTS
TURN TO THOSE WHO MADE THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE.
FOLLOWING FOUR YEARS OF HOSTILITIES THE SUPPOSED
WAR TO END ALL WARS FINALLY CEASED ON THE
11TH NOVEMBER 1918, AT 11 O’CLOCK.
THROUGHOUT GREAT BRITAIN, CITIES
TOWNS AND VILLAGES RAISED FUNDS TO ERECT
MEMORIAL’S COMMERATING THE NAMES OF THE FALLEN.
FROM THE HUGE MEMORIAL ARCH BUILT IN VICTORIA PARK
IN 1923, DESIGNED BY SIR EDWIN LUTYENS, TO
THE SIMPLE PLAQUE IN OUR CHURCH. THEY WERE
ALL INSTALLED WITH THE SAME PURPOSE, TO ENSURE
THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE
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A SNAPSHOT IN TIME
AROUND THE TIME OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR FRISBY ON
THE WREAKE CONSISTED OF 1500 ACRES OF LAND AND 9
ACRES OF WATER. THE POPULATION NUMBERED 385.
VILLAGERS IN BUSINESS OF ONE KIND OR ANOTHER IN AND
AROUND THE VILLAGE WERE,
HENRY BLACK, FARMER. MRS SARAH BROOMFIELD, SHOP
KEEPER. MRS ANN DUNMORE, DRESS MAKER. WILLIAM
FLAVELL, FARMER. MISS JULIA FOISTER, DRESS MAKER.
CHARLES FRISBY, BUILDER & WHEELWRIGHT. JOESEPH
HORNBUCKLE, GRAZIER. JOHN HOYLES, GRAZIER. FANNY
MANCHESTER, GRAZIER. SAMUAL MARRIOT, BAKER. GEORGE
PARR, GRAZIER. WILLIAM PEARSON, BLACKSMITH, POST
OFFICE OPERATOR AND PARISH CLERK. GEORGE POSNETT,
PAINTER. WILLIAM PYM, CARPENTER. ARTHUR REID, FARMER,
LIVING AT ‘THE ELMS’. GEORGE RODWELL, FARMER. GEORGE
T. RODWELL, MUSIC TEACHER. MATTHEW RODWELL,
GRAZIER. HERBERT ROBERTS, STATION MASTER. MISS ANN
SHIELD, DRESS MAKER. WALTER SKINNER, BUTCHER. (HENCE
THE AREA KNOWN AS SKINNERS YARD) THOMAS SPURR,
MARKET GARDNER. JOSEPH THOMPSON, FARMER. WILLIAM
WALKER, CATTLE DEALER. WILLIAM WALKER, FARMER.
THOMAS WATERSON, LANDLORD OF THE ‘BLACK HORSE’.
(NOW THE COACH HOUSE) ELIZA WESTON, LANDLADY OF
‘THE BELL’. MRS HANNAH WHITAKER, GRAZIER.
THE SCHOOL, WHICH WAS BUILT IN 1854 FOR 68 PUPIL’S, HAD
AS ITS HEAD MISTRESS A LADY CALLED MISS A BARWELL.
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RECORDS SHOW THAT THE WATER AND STEAM DRIVEN
FLOUR MILL AT THE END OF MILL LANE HAD CEASED
OPERATING SOMEWHERE BETWEEN 1891 AND 1899. THE LAST
MILLER WAS GEORGE SLATTER. BUT IT DID PLAY ITS PART AS
A FAMILY HOME AS YOU WILL READ FURTHER ON.
THE MILL AS IT LOOKED AT THE END OF THE 19TH CENTURY
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THE VICAR DURING THIS PART OF FRISBYS HISTORY WAS
THE REVEREND THOMAS WRIGHT. HE HELD A BACHELOR OF
ARTS DEGREE GAINED FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
AND HAD LIVED AT THE VICARAGE SINCE 1894. HE WAS ALSO
THE VICAR FOR THE CHURCH IN KIRBY BELLARS.
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BERNARD LESLIE ARCHER
BERNARD WAS THE SON OF HENRY AND ALICE ARCHER WHO, AT THE
TIME OF HIS DEATH, LIVED IN A HOUSE CALLED ‘ASHFIELD’.
HOWEVER, THE 1911 CENSUS SHOWS THAT PRIOR TO WW1 THE
FAMILY LIVED AT 52 FLAX ROAD IN THE BELGRAVE AREA OF
LEICESTER. BERNARD HAD AN ELDER BROTHER NAMED SIDNEY AND
A YOUNGER SISTER NAMED MARGARET. THEY ALSO SHARED THEIR
HOME WITH ALICES MOTHER HANNAH AND ALICE’S SISTER AGNES.
HENRY ARCHER WAS A BOOT AND SHOE MANUFACTURER.
DURING THE BLITZ IN WORLD WAR 2 NEARLY 80% OF THE WAR
RECORDS OF BRITISH SOLDIERS WHO FOUGHT IN WORLD WAR 1
WERE LOST WHEN SOMERSET HOUSE WAS FIRE BOMBED. THEREFORE
IT IS DIFFICULT IN MOST CASES TO BUILD A PICTURE OF THEIR
SERVICE IN GREAT DETAIL. HOWEVER, WHAT WE DO KNOW OF
BERNARDS WAR AS A GUNNER IN THE 84TH BATTERY 11TH BRIGADE
ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY IS AS FOLLOWS.
IN 1916 THE 83RD 84TH & 85TH BATTERIES OF THE ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY
11TH BRIGADE WERE GIVEN OVER TO THE EMERGING CANADIAN ARMY
BEING FORMED FROM CANADIAN VOLUNTEERS AT TRAINING
GROUNDS THROUGHOUT GREAT BRITAIN. AS THEY HAD NO HEAVY
ARTILLERY OF THEIR OWN BERNARD’S BATTERY WAS INITIALLY
ASSIGNED TO THE 3RD THEN THE 4TH CANADIAN DIVISION TO ASSIST
WITH THE ‘SOFTENING UP’ OF ENEMY POSITIONS PRIOR TO THEIR
PARTICIPATION AT THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME ON THE 24TH OCT
1916.
THE 4TH CANADIAN DIVISION WAR DIARY STATES THEIR AIM WAS TO
ATTACK A TARGET SOUTH WEST OF THE FRENCH TOWN OF
WARLENCOURT NAMED THE REGINA TRENCH. ON THE 14TH OCTOBER
BARRAGE MAPS WERE ISSUED TO THE 84TH BATTERY AND SO BEGAN
THEIR PART IN THE BATTLE. DURING THE NEXT 10 DAYS FROM HIGH
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GROUND SOUTH WEST OF LOUPART WOOD THEY ENGAGED IN A
DEADLY DUEL WITH THE GERMAN ARTILLERY.
WE CAN ONLY SURMISE THAT DURING ONE OF THESE EXCHANGES,
BERNARD WAS MORTALY WOUNDED BY ENEMY FIRE. HE WOULD
HAVE BEEN TAKEN TO VARIOUS DRESSING STATIONS THEN ONTO A
CASUALTY CLEARING STATION, BEFORE EVENTUALLY ARRIVING AT
THE HUGE MILITARY HOSPITAL IN BOULOGNE.
THE MELTON MOWBRAY TIMES FOR FRIDAY THE 3RD OF NOVEMBER
1916 REPORTED IN THE ‘DISTRICT WAR ITEMS’ COLUMN THAT
‘MR AND MRS ARCHER ARE ADVISED THAT THEIR YOUNGEST SON
BERNARD DIED IN A FRENCH HOSPITAL ON THE 20TH OCTOBER FROM
SHELL WOUNDS TO HIS CHEST. THE PARENTS, WHO HAD JOURNEYED
TO FRANCE ON LEARNING THE EXTENT OF HIS INJURIES, HAD THE
MELANCHOLY SATISFACTION OF SEEING THEIR SON BEFORE HE
PASSED AWAY’.
BERNARD IS COMMEMORATED WITH A HEADSTONE IN THE
COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES COMMISSION BOULOGNE EASTERN
CEMETERY.
MEMORIAL REFERENCE V111. D. 146.
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HAROLD EDWARD CLARE
HAROLD WAS BORN IN 1894 TO CHARLES AND LUCY CLARE IN
WILLINGTON, DERBYSHIRE. THE 1901 CENSUS TELLS US THAT THE
FAMILY HAD BY NOW MOVED TO SCRAPTOFT WHERE CHARLES WAS
A PAINTER AND DECORATOR. THEY HAD A LARGE FAMILY
COMPRISING OF DAUGHTER EDITH 15 WHO WORKED IN THE
HOSIERY TRADE. ELDER BROTHER, CHARLES F. 11, CAROLINE 9,
HAROLD 7. YOUNGER BROTHERS ERNEST 5, & GEORGE 2, AND NELLIE 6
MONTHS. ALSO THERE WERE TWO BOARDERS THOMAS HALLAM &
JOHN JOHNSON, BOTH FARM HANDS.
BY 1911 THE FAMILY HAD MOVED TO FRISBY. EDITH, CHARLES F.,
CAROLINE AND HAROLD HAD BY NOW ALL LEFT THE FAMILY HOME.
ERNEST IS NOW AN ERRAND BOY AND HE AND GEORGE H. HAD BEEN
JOINED BY THE ADDITION OF IDA 9, WINIFRED 6 & WALTER 3.
UNFORTUNATELY, AS THERE IS NO MENTION OF NELLIE, IT IS LIKELY
SHE HAD DIED IN THE INTERVENING YEARS.
THE 1911 CENSUS ALSO TELLS US THAT HAROLD IS NOW A BAKERS
ASSISTANT LIVING IN HOUGHTON ON THE HILL WITH THE BAKER,
FRANK EMMITT, HIS WIFE REBECCA AND THEIR YOUNG SON
REGINALD 7. THIERS WAS ONE OF TWO BAKERIES IN THIS SMALL
LEICESTERSHIRE VILLAGE, THE OTHER BEING RUN BY EDWARD
GARFOOT.
AS WITH BERNARD ARCHER THERE IS NO OFFICIAL WAR RECORD
AVAILABLE FOR HAROLD BUT AGAIN WE CAN PUT TOGETHER A
BRIEF DESCRIPTION FROM OTHER SOURCES. HIS MEDAL RECORD
SHOWS THAT ON 05.11.1914 HE WAS SERVING AS A PRIVATE WITH THE
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1ST COMPANY, 8TH DIVISION OF TRANSPORT IN THE ARMY SERVICE
CORPS. AT SOME POINT HAROLD WAS DRAFTED INTO THE 16TH
SERVICE BATTALION OF THE KINGS ROYAL RIFLE CORPS KNOWN AS
THE ‘CHURCH LADS BRIGADE’. THIS WAS ONE OF THE ORIGINAL
‘PALS’ DIVISIONS, FORMED IN SEPTEMBER 1914.
THE BATTALION TOOK PART IN MANY OF THE MAIN BATTLES OF THE
WAR. IN 1917 THEY WERE INVOLVED IN THE BATTLE OF ARRAS,
ACTIONS ON THE HINDENBURG LINE AND THE THIRD BATTLE OF
YPRES OR PASSCHENDAELE AS IT IS BETTER KNOWN.
IN 1918 THEY FOUGHT AT THE BATTLE OF LYS, THE BATTLE OF THE
HINDENBURG LINE AND THE FINAL ADVANCE IN PICARDY.
THE FAMILY STILL HAVE A LETTER FROM THE ARMY CHAPLAIN WHO
WROTE TO HAROLD’S BROTHER-IN-LAW DESCRIBING THE MOMENT
WHEN HAROLD OR ‘RAD’ AS HE WAS KNOWN, MET HIS END, AGED
JUST 24.
HE WROTE ‘HAROLD, ALONG WITH 6 COMRADES, DIED FROM
MACHINE GUN FIRE WHILST ATTACKING AN ENEMY STRONG POINT’’
ON THE 24TH SEPTEMBER 1918. JUST 7 WEEKS BEFORE THE END OF THE
WAR.
WE BELIEVE HAROLD WAS KILLED IN ACTION DURING AN ATTACK
ON THE FRENCH VILLAGE OF VILLERS-GUISLAIN. THIS GROUND WAS
FIERCELY FOUGHT OVER WITH TRENCHES CHANGING HANDS FOUR
TIMES ON THIS DAY ALONE. THE VILLAGE WAS FINALLY ABANDONED
BY THE ENEMY AT THE END OF SEPTEMBER 1918.
THE MELTON MOWBRAY TIMES REPORTED IN ITS EDITION FOR
FRIDAY THE 1ST OF NOVEMBER 1918 ‘THAT A MEMORIAL SERVICE
OFFICIATED BY REV. WRIGHT HAD BEEN HELD IN THE CHURCH FOR
PRIVATE HAROLD CLARE, RECENTLY KILLED IN ACTION. THE
CONGREGATION WAS A LARGE AND SYMPATHETIC ONE. THE DEAD
MARCH WAS PLAYED BY MR C A RODWELL, ORGANIST’.
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HAROLD IS COMMEMORATED WITH A COMMONWEALTH WAR
GRAVES COMMISSION HEADSTONE IN THE VILLERS HILL BRITISH
CEMETERY, NEAR VILLERS-GUISLAIN, FRANCE.
MEMORIAL REFERENCE. V.D.11.
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HAROLD ‘RAD’ CLARE
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JOHN WILLIAM PROUDMAN
JOHN WAS BORN IN GADDESBY IN 1884, THE FIRST CHILD OF WILLIAM
AND EMMA PROUDMAN. BY THE 1911 CENSUS FOR FRISBY THEIRS WAS
A LARGE FAMILY COMPRISING OF JOHN 26, A FARM HAND LIKE HIS
FATHER. HARRY 21, ALSO A FARM HAND. ETHEL 17, A SHOP GIRL.
RUTH 15, A SERVANT. VIOLET 18, JANE 10, THOMAS 7 ROSE 5 AND
GEORGE 2. THEY ALSO HAD A LODGER, CHARLES PYMM, WHO WAS A
FURNACE MAN AT THE HOLWELL IRON WORKS WHICH AT THIS TIME
HAD 3 FURNACES. THE FAMILY HOME WAS ‘MILL HOUSE’ AT THE END
OF MILL LANE.
JOHN’S WAR RECORDS HAVE SURVIVED SO WE CAN TELL HIS
MOVEMENTS FROM HIS DATE OF ENLISTMENT OR ‘ATTESTATION’ AS
IT WAS OFFICIALLY KNOWN, THROUGH TO HIS DEATH. HE WAS
UNMARRIED, THIRTY YEARS OLD, 5’ 5’’ TALL, WEIGHED 146 POUNDS.
HE HAD BLUE EYES AND BROWN HAIR. HE ANSWERED THE CALL TO
ARMS IN MELTON MOWBRAY ON THE 1ST OF SEPTEMBER 1914, JUST 27
DAYS AFTER WAR WAS DECLARED AND WAS ASSIGNED TO THE 7TH
BATTALION OF THE LEICESTER REGIMENT. BY THE 5TH OF SEPTEMBER
JOHN WAS IN BARRACKS AT ALDERSHOT. MONTHS OF TRAINING
ENSUED UNTIL HE WAS SHIPPED OVER TO FRANCE AT THE END OF
JULY 1915.
THE 7TH BATTALION WERE PART OF THE 110TH INFANTRY BRIGADE
WHO WON GREAT ACCLAIM IN AN ATTACK ON THE BAZENTIN-LEPETIT WOOD AND VILLAGE IN THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME IN MIDJULY 1916. THE LEICESTER REGIMENT WAR DIARIES KEPT AT THE
COUNTY RECORDS OFFICE IN WIGSTON RECORD THAT SEPTEMBER
1916 SAW THEM CAMPED OUTSIDE THE FRENCH VILLAGE OF
MONTAUBAN BY BERNAFAY WOOD WHERE THEY WERE ENGAGED IN
WORKING PARTIES PREPARING FOR AN ATTACK ON GUEUDECOURT.
THIS WORK TOOK PLACE FROM THE 17TH UNTIL ‘GOING OVER THE
TOP’ ON THE 25TH OF SEPTEMBER. THE WORKING PARTIES,
CONSISTING OF MAINLY DIGGING AND THE REPAIRING OF TRENCHES,
CAME UNDER CONSTANT HEAVY SHELL AND MACHINE GUN FIRE AND
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IT WAS DURING THIS TIME THAT JOHN WAS KILLED, ON THE 19TH OF
SEPTEMBER, AGED 32.
HIS WAR RECORDS THEN GO ON TO SHOW ALL THE
CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THE INFANTRY REGIMENTAL OFFICE IN
LICHFIELD, THE WAR OFFICE AND JOHNS PARENTS CONCERNING THE
RETURN OF HIS POSSESSIONS, (JUST HIS IDENTITY DISC). THE MEDALS
HE WAS ENTITLED TOO, THE VICTORY MEDAL, BRITISH MEDAL AND
THE 1915 STAR, ALL HAD TO BE SIGNED FOR AND RECEIPTS
RETURNED IN TRIPLICATE. THIS CARRIED ON UNTIL 1920. EACH ONE I
AM SURE BRINGING BACK THE PAIN OF HIS LOSS TO THE FAMILY.
THE MELTON MOWBRAY TIMES FOR THE 6TH OF OCTOBER 1916
REPORTED IN ‘THE DISTRICT WAR ITEMS COLUMN’ AS FOLLOWS.
FRISBY SOLDIER KILLED
PRIVATE JOHN PROUDMAN WHO WENT BACK TO THE FRONT A FEW
MONTHS AGO WAS KILLED IN ACTION ON THE 19TH OF SEPTEMBER.
HIS PARENTS RECEIVED A LETTER DATED 20TH SEPTEMBER FROM HIS
PLATOON COMMANDER WHO WROTE ‘I HAVE LOST ONE OF THE
BEST MEN IN THE PLATOON. HE WAS A WILLING WORKER AND A
MOST OBEDIENT MAN. THE REMAINDER OF THE PLATOON JOIN ME IN
SYMPATHY IN YOUR GREAT LOSS’.
JOHNS DEATH WAS ALSO MENTIONED IN THE EDITION FOR FRIDAY
OCTOBER 27TH IN THEIR ‘LOCAL MEN IN THE CASUALTY LISTS’
COLUMN. ALSO REPORTED IN THIS EDITION WAS THAT ‘THE
WESLEYAN CHAPEL IN FRISBY HAD DECLARED THE PREVIOUS
SUNDAY, ‘HOSPITAL SUNDAY’. A COLLECTION HAD BEEN TAKEN TO
RAISE FUNDS FOR LEICESTER INFIRMARY AND A GOOD SUM WAS
RAISED FOR THAT EXTREMELY DESERVING INSTITUTION’.
YOUNGER BROTHER HARRY ALSO JOINED THE ARMY, ORIGINALY IN
THE LEICESTER REGIMENT, HE THEN TRANSFERRED TO THE LABOUR
CORPS UNTIL HIS DISCHARGE IN 1919.
JOHN IS COMMEMORATED WITH A COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES
COMMISSION HEADSTONE IN THE GUARDS CEMETERY IN LESBOEUFS,
FRANCE.
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MEMORIAL REFERENCE 111.E.10
JOHN WHELWELL RUDDLE
JOHN WAS BORN IN RATBY IN 1898 THE SON OF ARTHUR AND KATE
RUDDLE. THE 1911 CENSUS TELLS US THAT AT THAT TIME HE WAS
THEIR ONLY SON WITH THE REST OF THE FAMILY AS FOLLOWS.
MARY JANE, 15 & TWIN SISTERS BEATRICE & FRANCES 10. ARTHUR
WAS A COWMAN ON A LOCAL FARM AND MARY JANE AT 15 WAS A
DRESSMAKER’S ASSISTANT. ALL THE CHILDREN WERE ALSO BORN IN
RATBY BUT BY 1911 THE FAMILY HAD MOVED TO FRISBY.
JOHN’S WAR RECORDS ALSO SURVIVED, SO WE KNOW THAT HE WAS
5’ 7” TALL AND WEIGHED 136 POUNDS AND HE ENLISTED IN MELTON
MOWBRAY ON THE 25TH OF JULY 1916. BY NOW NEWS WAS BEGINNING
TO FILTER BACK TO BRITAIN OF THE DREADFUL LOSSES INFLICTED
ON THE BRITISH ARMY DURING THE FIRST DAY OF THE BATTLE OF
THE SOMME THAT TOOK PLACE ON THE 1ST OF JULY 1916, (60,000
CASUALTIES) THEREFORE, JOINING UP AGED JUST 18 WAS A VERY
BRAVE THING TO DO.
JOHN WAS ORIGINALLY ASSIGNED TO THE LEICESTER REGIMENT’S
90TH TRAINING RESERVE BATTALION WITH WHOM HE WENT
THROUGH HIS BASIC TRAINING. HE FIRST WENT TO FRANCE IN
FEBRUARY 1917 COMING HOME ON LEAVE IN OCTOBER 1917. AT THE
END OF JUNE 1918 JOHN WAS TRANSFERRED TO THE 1ST/8TH LEEDS
RIFLES BATTALION OF THE WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT.
IN MAY 1918 IN AN ATTEMPT TO BREAK THE LONG STALEMATE OF
TRENCH WARFARE THE GERMAN ARMY ATTACKED ALONG A WIDE
FRONT PUSHING BRITISH FORCES BACK ACROSS THE RIVER AISNE TO
THE RIVER MARNE. IN JULY 1918 JOHNS BATTALION WERE PART OF
THE BRITISH COUNTER ATTACK NEAR THE FRENCH TOWN OF
SOISSONS WHICH SAW THE LOST GROUND EVENTUALLY RETAKEN BY
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EARLY AUGUST 1918. WE CAN ONLY ASSUME THAT IT WAS DURING
THIS ACTION ON THE 28TH OF JULY JOHN WAS KILLED, AGED JUST 20.
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THIS PERIOD OF THE WAR IS KNOWN AS THE SECOND BATTLE OF
THE MARNE AND SUCH WERE THE LOSSES INFLICTED ON THE ENEMY
IN TERMS OF BOTH MEN AND EQUIPMENT THAT THIS ACTION IS
CONSIDERED TO BE THE MAIN TIPPING POINT THAT EVENTUALLY
LED TO THE END OF HOSTILITIES.
DURING THIS ACTION OVER 4000 BRITISH AND COMMONWEALTH
OFFICERS AND OTHER RANKS WERE LOST AND HAVE NO KNOWN
GRAVE. THERE IS A WAR MEMORIAL TO THESE MEN IN SOISSONS
THAT INCLUDES JOHNS NAME.
IN THE ‘DEATHS’ COLUMN OF THE MELTON MOWBRAY TIMES FOR
FRIDAY AUGUST 30TH 1918 HIS FAMILY HAD PRINTED THE FOLLOWING
POIGNANT WORDS.
HE NOBLY ANSWERED DUTY’S CALL
HE GAVE HIS LIFE FOR ONE AND ALL
BUT OH FOR A TOUCH OF HIS VANISHED HAND
AND A SMILE FROM HIS DARLING FACE
WE WOULD GIVE ALL THE WORLD
IF WE COULD SEE OUR DEAR BOY AGAIN.
FROM HIS SORROWING MOTHER FATHER AND SISTERS.
HIS MILITARY FILE GOES ON TO RECORD THE VARIOUS PIECES OF
PAPERWORK JOHNS FAMILY WERE SENT, ALONG WITH HIS PLAQUE
AND SCROLL AND PERSONAL BELONGINGS WHICH INCLUDED
VARIOUS LETTERS FROM HOME, PHOTOS AND OTHER EFFECTS. ALL
HAD TO BE SIGNED FOR AND RECEIPTS RETURNED TO THE WAR
OFFICE AND THE REGIMENTAL OFFICE IN YORK. THE LAST RECEIPTS
ARE FOR HIS VICTORY MEDAL DATED THE FIRST OF JANUARY
1921(NOT THE BEST WAY TO SEE IN A NEW YEAR) AND HIS BRITISH
WAR MEDAL DATED APRIL 1921.
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THIS INFORMATION WAS COMPLIED BY JON LOVESAY & JOHN
BILLINGS. SHOULD ANYONE BE ABLE TO PROVIDE US WITH ANY
FURTHER DETAILS OR FAMILY PHOTOS FOR INCLUSION PLEASE
CONTACT EITHER MYSELF BY E-MAIL jonlovesay@btinterenet.com MOBILE
07508 661675 OR JOHN ON frisair@tiscali.co.uk
SHOULD ANY OF YOU BE PASSING THROUGH FRANCE ON HOLIDAY
OR VISITING THE BATTLEFIELD’S IT IS ACCEPTABLE TO TAKE A
SMALL STONE FROM YOUR GARDEN OR FROM THE SURROUNDING
FIELDS TO PLACE AT THE BASE OF THE MEMORIAL HEADSTONES OF
THESE MEN IN THE CEMETERIES AS LISTED.
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