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St John The Baptist Parish Church, Burscough.

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Children We deemed you all our days,

we vexed you with our care.

But in a universe ablaze,

What was your childish share ?

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To rush upon the flames of hell,

and quench them with your blood.

To be of one England’s flowers that fell,

Ere yet it broke the bud.

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And we who wither were we grew,

and never shed but tears.

As children now would follow you,

Through the remaining years;

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Tread in the steps we thought to guide,

Just as firmly as you trod;

And keep the name you glorified,

Clean, before man and God.

Hornung.

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St John The Baptist Parish Church, Burscough, Lancashire.

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‘The East Window’

The original village war memorial.

The dream of Rev Travers Stoney, creation of Gustav Hillier.

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The alabaster & marble wall mounted war memorial at St John’s.

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The WW1 portion of the memorial in full showing all the relevent names

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The left panel of the war memorial in month of death order till 1916

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The center panel

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The right panel

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The WW2 names listed in the bottom panel

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A full descriptve of the names above, can be found in the Lathom & Burscough WW 2 War Memorial Page.

Below.

The ‘Roll of Honour’ transcribed as on St John The Baptist Church Memorial.

reproduced in the booklet

‘The East Window’ by David Orritt.

Showing regiments and dates of death, researched by Richard Houghton 1999.

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The lower panel of the East Window a section the original

‘Burscough War Memorial’

Please refer to the page East Window for an appraisal.

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Further information can be obtained from.

secretarylbmhs@gmail.com

The graves shown below are Navy personnel that served at

RNAS Burscough / HMS Ringtail 1942 -1945.

COLBECK, RALPH AUSTIN

Rank:: Sub-Lieutenant (A)
Date of Death: Age: 11/11/1943 21

Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve

H.M.S.Attacker.www.royalnavyresearcharchive.org.uk/ESCORT/ATTACKER.htm

Son of Wilfred Howard Buckley Colbeck and of Mary Winifred Colbeck (nee Clarke), of Puru, Auckland, New Zealand.

SUNDERLAND, PETER GRAHAM

Rank:: Sub-Lieutenant (A)
Date of Death: Age: 28/05/1944 22.; Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve.

H.M.S. Heron. Airstation at Haldon / Teignmouth during WW2.

Son of Frank and Dora Grace Sunderland, of Harrogate, Yorkshire.

NEVILLE, ALAN EDGAR

Rank:: Sub-Lieutenant (A)
Date of Death: Age.: 06/10/1944 21

Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve

Son of Edgar and Mabel Neville, of Romford, Essex.

WILLIAMS, MAURICE WALTON

Rank:: Sub-Lieutenant (A)
Date of Death: Age: 28/05/1944 22