Dates of future remembrance Sunday services:
2026 Sunday 8th November at 1030
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The Royal British Legion is recognised as the national custodian of Remembrance.
Remembrance Sunday, the second Sunday in November, is the day traditionally put aside to remember all those who have given their lives for the peace and freedom we enjoy today.
View our News & Events calendar for details of local Remembrance events.
NAMES OF THE FALLEN
FROM
SEDBERGH AND DISTRICT
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.
1914 to 1918
SEDBERGH
William Eglin ARMER
Stephen ATKINSON
Joseph Charles BATEMAN
Noel BENNETT
Henry BOOTH
Albert BROOKS
George BURTON
John BURTON
Fred BUSHBY
Charles Leonard CHORLEY
(Military Cross)
Henry James CLEMMETT
Thomas William CLEMMETT
James CRAGG
Thomas CRAGG
Thomas Edward DAKRES
William EDMONDSON
John William FOSTER
Robert Matthew FOTHERGILL
Joseph GIBSON
James Burton GREENWOOD
Thomas Leighton HALL
Stephen Edward HANDLEY
Thomas Edward HARESNAPE
Brian Charles HARRISON
The Reverand George Hayton HEWETSON
John Cyril HINDSON
Richard HOUGHTON
Thomas KENDALL
Samuel LAKIN
John Charles LEIGHTON
Harry Lyddington MASON
Herbert PARK
Harold Hardy PEARSON
Thomas WILLIAM RIGG
Walter SANDERSON
Robert Edward SEDDON
Charles James SISSON
Joseph Alfred SMITH
George William SOUTHERIN
John Giles STAINTON
Thomas Birkett STOCKDALE
Edwin STOREY
George Armstrong THOMPSON
(Military Medal)
Nicholas Herbert TODD
Richard WINN
CAUTLEY
James BANKS
George Albert DAWSON
Orlando Cyril GARNETT
Henry Douglas MACPHERSON
Nurse Fanny MASON
Thomas RUSSELL
William RUSSELL
FIRBANK
James ATKINSON
Thomas ATKINSON
Richard ELLIS
Robert METCALFE
GARSDALE
Michael AKRIGG
Thomas BRACKEN
Richard HANDLEY
Thomas HANDLEY
Miles HARPER
Rowland HARPER
Robert HUTCHINSON
William MASON
James Henry MILNER
John NELSON
Joseph OVERSBY
Miles RAW
Charles Edward SHELDON
John WINN
HOWGILL
Harry CAPSTICK
John George CAPSTICK
Miles CAPSTICK
Frederick Proud HERD
James MASON
John NICHOLSON
Henry WILSON
KILLINGTON
Clarence Albert METCALF
Thomas Matthew STAINTON
VALE OF LUNE & AREA
Anthony ASKEW
James COULTHWAITE
Humphrey Randle Upton Cottrell DORMER
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SECOND WORLD WAR
1 September 1939 to 15th August 1945
SEDBERGH
James ARMITSTEAD
Harry Willam BATTY
William BAINBRIDGE
Robert Wynn Hunton CARTER
William Waller DAWSON
Thomas DINSDALE
Albert Harrison GARNETT
John GOTH
John Richard GREENWOOD
Thomas Edward HANDLEY
(Military Medal)
James HARVEY
John McCarthy JOHNSON
Desmond Hayward Sidley KAY
(DFC)
Charles LOWIS
William Norman MOUNSEY
Patrick James NICHOLSON
Anthony Charles PENNINGTON
Thomas Robinson SOWERBY
George Noel STAINTON
CAUTLEY
Thomas Derrick SEDGWICK
FIRBANK
Robert Atkinson
GARSDALE
Charles Henry WARD
DENT & COWGILL
First World War 1914 - 1918
James Arthur BENNETT
William Fawcett BENSON
Edward BENTHAM
William BENTHAM
Carl Parrington BRANTHWAITE
Wilfred BRUNSKILL
Hector CAPSTICK
Robert William Ford DANVERS
John Bruce DAVIDSON
Richard DENT
Parrington DIXON
George FAWCETT
John William FOTHERGILL
Edmund GORNALL
William Heseltine GREENBANK
John Thomas GREGGOR
Norman HAWKINGS
Benjamin Griffiths HAYGARTH
John William HAYGARTH
Robert Greenwood HUTCHINSON
Herbert Walter JEFFORD
George MASON
George Thomas MIDDLETON
John Middleton MORPHET
John Edward OVERSBY
Joseph OVERSBY
John Mason PARRINGTON
Bertie PINCH
Reinforth POWLEY
John Myles RAW
Miles ROWE or RAW
George Nelson SHEFFIELD
Surtees SHEFFIELD
Joseph SMITH
John Laurence William WOODHOUSE
Second World War 1939 - 1945
John Parrington BROOKSBANK
Anthony MATTINSON
John Alfred McCLURG
Leonard SEDGWICK
Charles Henry WARD
Matthew WINN
In addition 358 former Sedbergh School pupils names are listed on their own Memorial cloisters, 4 of them having been awarded Victoria Crosses.
OLD SEDBERGHIAN CLUB PILGRIMAGE
The Old Sedberghian Club, together with the School Headmaster and current pupils, embarked on 1st August 2014 on a pilgrimage to visit, and leave a poppy on every known resting place of the Fallen who have an association with the school. The 4 year project was to commemorate the immense sacrifice that generations of the school have made.
The Pilgrimage began with a visit to the grave of Capt. Jonathan E Knowles, the first Old Sedbergian to fall in WW1 at the beginning of hostilities on 23rd August 1014.
Records indicate that more than 1,261 Sedberghians served in the Great War, 358 of whom lost their lives. Of these, at least 77 were killed or died at Ypres and the Somme, and are buried or remembered in the locality. These levels of service and sacrifice were among the highlights of any public school at the time, relative to the School Roll of the day.
That is in addition to the enormous percentage of local Sedbergh towns people, some of whom are listed above.
When you go home tell them of us and say,
"For your tomorrow we gave our today"
We will remember them
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Extract from Westmorland Gazette November 1964:
Impressive Dedication Ceremony.
An impressive ceremony took place during the Remembrance Service at Sedbergh Parish Church on Sunday Afternoon, when a Book of Remembrance containing the names of the fallen of two world wars from the Sedbergh district, was dedicated.
Before the service there was a procession through the town of representatives of the Police, the Rural Council, Magistrates, both sections of the Royal British Legion, with their respective Standards, St. Johns Ambulance Brigade units and the Combined Cadet Force. The procession formed near the Congregational Church and marched through main street to the church. The clergy taking part were the RVs. J.A.V. Wallace (Vicar of Sedbergh), D. Thomas (Curate), E. B. Rawcliffe (Congregational minister), and E.B. Topliss (Methodist minister), who gave the sermon. Mr. L Smith was organist; the church choir was in attendance. A large congregation filled the church to capacity.
The dedication of the book of remembrance -- the gift of the local branch of the Royal British Legion -- was followed by the reading of the names of the fallen by Mt. G. Braithwaite (President of the branch). The book was then placed in a special case with a glass top, for which a facility had been obtained. The lettering was carried out by Mr. H.W. Bracken a local ex-serviceman and the book is suitably bound in Red, with gold lettering.
At the endof the service the banners were handed from the alter to the escorts and the procession moved out to the war memorial in the church yard. There wreaths were deposited on behalf of the Royal British Legion, St. Johns Ambulance, and the cadet force. The Last Post and reveille were sounded. During the week-end the war memorial was flood-lit.
