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CLUB WAR MEMORIAL
If you compare the photograph of the dedication of the
club war memorial shown on the front cover of this issue
of the DLN to that shown on page 64 of the Club History
you will note that they are different; the one shown in the
Club History was, in fact, taken in 1929 but is dated 1920.
One of the names on the memorial is 2nd Lieutenant Walter
Webster DSO, who died of his wounds on the 10th February
1917 and is buried in the British Cemetery near the village
of Fleurbaix in Northern France.
On the 10th February this year, one hundred years to the day, I laid a British
Legion wreath on behalf of the club at the foot of our memorial at Newnham.
At the same time, Walter’s nephew, Graham, visited Fleurbaix with his eldest
son, Piers, and his family to pay their respects (his eldest son, Ross, could
not attend as his children’s school would not allow them to miss a day’s
schooling. As Ross commented, on such an historic occasion, the school
could perhaps have made an exception!).
Derek Boon &
Marion
Sunday 22 nd
October
At a very windy
Eastbourne
Photo by Ruth King
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