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Issue 72 Winter 2018
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Tupsley Remembers A display of 300 poppies was the centre piece of a most moving Remembrance Day service held at St Pauls Church on Sunday 11th November. 200 poppies were knitted by the ladies of the church and 100 were made of paper by the Sunday school children. The fact that the 2 minutes silence at 11am was exactly 100 years to the minute after the Armistice was signed to put an end to the tremendous bloodshed of the 1st World War, was particularly poignant. Immediately before the silence, the names of all the 55 people from Tupsley who perished were slowly read to the congregation. This brought home and emphasised to all those present the high loss of life in Tupsley. The total population of Tupsley was not very large in 1918 so the loss of 55 brave men, most of whom volunteered or been conscripted to fight for their country, must have had a tremendous impact on the community Each one had many people grieving for them which included family, friends and sweethearts. There were losses throughout those four long dark years of the war but one has to feel tremendously sad for those who
survived the horrors of the first three years of conflict, but then perished in the final months. In Tupsley these were as follows:In April 1918 there were two casualties – Ernest Jones, and Arthur Britten whose older brother had been killed in 1916. Both are remembered at Tyne Cot memorial. In September 1918 Francis Hatton of the Herefordshire Regiment was killed in Iraq. Also Robert Keay Millar whose family had a Drapers business in Hereford, and Edmund Brash who was employed by the Hereford Journal. The Preece family kept Hampton Park Dairy off Old Eign Hill. Their son George was killed on 3rd October 1918. Ernest Field, the eldest child of George and Sarah Field from Gorsty Lane was then killed on 9th October. Both died only just over a month before the Armistice. Two Tupsley soldiers had returned to Hereford as casualties and are buried in the churchyard with Commonwealth gravestones. One was Edward Humphreys, eldest son of Thomas and
Hannah Humphreys of Lugg View Cottage, Aylestone Hill who died in April 1917. The other was Charles Rowlands, a father of four, who died in July 1919. Frank Baggot had also been sent home wounded. He was to die on 23rd August 1918 but instead of a war grave he is buried in St. Paul’s Churchyard with his sister who had tragically died two years previously. An article in the Hereford Times of Spring 1919 records a party held in Tupsley school room for the school children and soldiers who had arrived home. The Rev. C. G. Ledger, vicar of St Pauls, Tupsley, distributed the prizes. This must have been a sad occasion for him as his son Lieutenant Raymond K. Ledger did not return. He had been killed in action at Neuve Chappelle on 13th April 1915. They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, We will remember them.
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