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Remembrance Day 2014
Images from the Ridgeway Village Hall Display on the
Centenary of the First World War
Editor's Note: These images
cannot completely describe the involvement of the many Ridgeway
Servicemen and Women during the First and Second World Wars, and in
other conflicts. However, it is hoped that the material presented
here will help to aid our understanding of the vital contributions
that they made.
Prior to the outbreak of the First World War
Men from Ridgeway volunteered to join the Derbyshire Imperial
Yeomanry, which was a reserve cavalry force. Each year, they and
their horses attended camps to carry out training which was to be of
considerable value in the war years to come:
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James Fisher and Jess |
Frank
Marsh, Arthur Fisher, Chris Marsh, Sam Marsh |
Frank
Marsh, Wilf Butterley, James Fisher, Sam Marsh, Arthur
Fisher |
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From Frank Fisher's Collection
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During the First World War
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Mail from The Front |
Walter Barker in
uniform |
Postcard from Walter
Barker to his brother |
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From David Dennis's Collection
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Ida Barker - Ridgeway Postwoman 1914-18 |
Postcard from France |
Postcard from France |
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From David Dennis's Collection
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15469 Private Sybray Barker
Killed on the first day of the
Battle of the Somme, 1st July 1916 |
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Although
Sybray's name appears on his parents' grave at St John's
Parish Church, he is in fact buried at Lonsdale Cemetery,
Athuille, France. |
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From Sandra Smith's Collection
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Christopher Marsh
Killed in France, 23 April 1917 |
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Medallion to Christopher on family gravestone in St John’s
Churchyard |
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From Frank Fisher's Collection
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Francis Donald Fisher
WW1 RFC Pilot/Observer |
Euart
Nicholson |
Post card from Euart
Nicholson
(Notes by Frank Fisher) |
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From Frank Fisher's Collection
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Article written by Stephen Fidler in FT
Magazine From Lesley Brown's Collection |
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J G J Hutton (1915) From
Tony Rippon's Collection |
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The War Memorial for 1914-18
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The Proposal (1) |
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The Proposal (2) |
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From Frank Fisher's Collection
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Subscribers to the Memorial Fund (1) |
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Subscribers to the Memorial Fund (2) |
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From Frank Fisher's Collection
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Unveiling Ceremony (1) |
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Unveiling Ceremony (2) |
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From Frank Fisher's Collection
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During the Second World War
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Stanley (Peter) Slater |
Benjamin (Peter) Clegg |
Ivor Barker |
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Returning Home
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Dinner organised by the Ridgeway Welcome
Home Committee (1) |
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Dinner organised by the Ridgeway Welcome
Home Committee (2) |
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From Geoff Bennett's Collection
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The War Memorial for 1939-45
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Unveiling Ceremony (1) |
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Unveiling Ceremony (2) |
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From Frank Fisher's Collection
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Those Killed in Action |
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The 1980's
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Removal of the Cenotaph |
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From Frank Fisher's Collection
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2014 - The Centenary
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A poppy planted at Mons for the Men of
Ridgeway Village |
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