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Issue 91 West Derby & Croxteth Park February 2014
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when he died in June 1917. Harry, a private in the South Wales Borderers died in April 1918. Both were aged 19. • Private Frank Edwards, King’s Liverpool Regiment, lived at 35 Deysbrook Lane. He died on the Somme in July 1916, aged 22. • Lieutenant Lewis Mogridge’s parents lived at 12 Crosby Green. He served in both the King’s and the RAF and died in April 1918, aged 31. • Rifleman Henry Reynolds, Gloucestershire Regiment, lived at 18 Russian Drive. He was 21 when he died in France in June 1916. • Private William Stagles, died aged 19 in October 1918, serving with the Cheshire Regiment. His parents lived at 30 Quarry Road. • Henry Wright, of Oak Lane, was a lance corporal in the King’s and died aged 27 in January 1918. Many of those commemorated on the memorial are buried in war cemeteries in France and Belgium. Others have no known grave. There are 170,000 war graves from both World Wars in 12,000 cemeteries and churchyards throughout the United Kingdom. For example, Yew Tree Cemetery contains 35 First World War graves and 65 from the Second World War.
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Hundreds of people gathered forthe unveiling of the new war memorial in West Derby Village. The moving ceremony in June 1921 commemorated 123 servicemen who gave their lives in the First World War. Most in the crowd had lost loved ones or knew someone who had died in the conflict which ended just three years before.
Some walked, others came on bicycles or pushed babies in prams. Children perched on walls to get a better view. This, like all commemorations held around the memorial ever since, was a day to remember the fallen. It was echoed throughout the country and at countless memorials around the world, remembering the millions who died in the global fight for freedom. Among the youngest was the Hon Cecil Molyneux, a midshipman who
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died aged just 16 in the Battle of Jutland. The memorial stands at the entrance to the drive leading to his home, Croxteth Hall. He was buried at sea.
AMONG OTHERS REMEMBERED ON THE MEMORIAL ARE: • Brothers Harry and Thomas Stanfield of 2 Norris Green Road. Thomas was a private in the Lancashire Fusiliers
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