The Freethorpe Remembrance Ceremony takes place at 10:50 this Sunday 10th November at the War Memorial in the Methodist Cemetery. 1st Freethorpe Cub Scouts will parade and lay a wreath, and Parish Councillor Paul Bacon will lay a wreath on behalf of the Parish Council. The bugle will sound the Last Post across the village at 11am. The ceremony will be followed by a short service in the chapel led by Rev. Andrew King. Everyone is welcome.
“We will remember them.”
Sacred to the memory of those of this parish whose names appear herewith.
Who made the supreme sacrifice during the Great War Aug 1914 – Nov 1918
Sgt. Frank Lake, aged 28, Duke of Cornwall L.I.
Cpl. Walter Lake, aged 30, 2nd Lincolns.
Pte. Robert J.Lake, aged 23, 1st Norfolks.
Pte. Basil Lake, aged 19, Royal Sussex Yeomanry
Pte. George Meal, aged 29, 3rd Essex.
Pte. Mark Shorten, aged 24, 3rd Norfolks.
Pte. George Ward, aged 30, 1st Norfolks.
Cpl. John H.Alexander, aged 22, 9th Norfolks.
Pte. Alfred R.Brock, aged 31, A.S.C.(Remounts)
Pte. D.High Burton, aged 23, 9th Norfolks.
L-cpl. Fred Carr, aged 38, 8th Norfolks.
Pte. Wilfred Cater, aged 19, M.G.Corps.
Pte. Thomas F.Dawson, aged 23, 8th Norfolks.
Skpr. Samuel C.Falgate, aged 48, H.M.S.Hilary.H.
Who gave their lives for their country in the war 1939-45.
Pte. A.C. Nicholls, aged 25, 1st Norfolks.
A.P.O. W.R. Turner D.S.M., aged 33, Royal Navy.
“Greater love hath no man than this.
That a man lay down his life for his friends.”
Text reproduced from Freethorpe’s war memorial, which stands in the cemetery of Freethorpe Methodist Church.