STOCKPORT CRICKET CLUB

IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 1918
128 MEMBERS OF THIS CLUB
JOINED HIS MAJESTY'S FORCES
AND THE FOLLOWING
MADE THE SUPREME SACRIFICE

W H BOURNE W BROOKS W A CRAGG L C EMERY E L GOODALL H M GRANGER J D GREEN S HEYDON

B HORNER J B LISTER T H PENNY C B SCHOFIELD L F SHARP G SLACK J H STAVEACRE W C YATES

AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND IN THE MORNING
WE WILL REMEMBER THEM

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SACRED ALSO TO THE MEMORY OF
O P JACKSON & P PRATT
WHO FELL IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR
1939 - 1945

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AND THESE MEN DIED LEAVING THEIR DEATH FOR AN EXAMPLE OF A NOBLE COURAGE AND A MEMORIAL OF VIRTUE UNTO ALL THE NATION

II Macabees 6

------------ SONS OF THIS PLACE LET THIS OF     YOU BE SAID THAT YOU WHO LIVE ARE WORTHY     OF YOUR DEAD THESE GAVE THEIR LIVES THAT     YOU WHO LIVE MAY REAP A RICHER HARVEST ERE YOU FALL     ASLEEP

Rev T E Royde

------------ THERE'S BUT ONE TASK FOR ALL FOR EACH ONE LIFE TO GIVE WHO STANDS, IF FREEDOM FALL WHO DIES, IF ENGLAND LIVE

Rudyard Kipling