‘We will remember them …’
WORLD WAR 1
An original silk poppy, worn on November 11th 1920, at the unveiling of the Cenotaph in London, to commemorate the men who gave their lives in the Great War. Donated by Mrs Landin, for The Deepings Remember 1914 to 1918 exhibition in November 2014, it is on permanent display at Market Deeping Town Hall.
Many of you will remember the exhibition in the Deepings Community Centre six years ago - with its reconstructions of a battlefield trench and a wartime home, displays of model aircraft and a wonderful airfield layout, memorabilia and medals, and school projects on First World War ancestors. The focal point was in the main hall - a gallery of posters telling the stories of Deepings’ servicemen. Susannah Smart, outside her cottage in The Row, West Deeping
Susannah Smart’s twins, Alice and Jack Smart.
This was where Maggie Ashcroft first met Cissie Vickers, born and brought up in Deeping St James. She had come to see a poster about her father, Jack Burton – and was taken by surprise to find her Grandma Smart, her mother Alice and her Uncle Jack featured on a poster about West Deeping servicemen, “Boys from the Row”.
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