Great War Stories
Members of the Project Team and School Staff & Students meet for a photo call at the Church War Memorial
Photograph by Student Lawrence Hirst
Christleton High School History Hot Scholars and Staff represented the School
The Assembly was filmed for the project by student Lawrence Hirst
Filming
Farmers Market
Oldest Resident Cliff Bridge came to talk about his War Service
David Cummings Project leader is pictured talking to a resident and his son about one of the images found of the crashed aircraft of Pilot Norman Wildig
Open Morning
History Group Members are on hand to talk to the Community about the aims of the project, ask for help, and show off some of the early research
Tony Watkins and David Cummings
We also interviewed families who had evidence of their relative’s involvement in WWI.
Here the team are meeting the Fisher Family and looking at photographs, letters and artefacts about Norman Wildig who lived at Hawthorn House.
Former resident Dave Carter shows us his father’s Military Medal
High School Christleton
Glass Plates
65 guests enjoyed the Hospitality provided by the High School, enabling us to put on refreshments and a photographic exhibition in the Foyer and have an exhibition of artefacts and a talk in their new Cadet Force Theatre.
Cenotaph London
Lawrence Hirst
Luke Disley
Sophie Brown
Joe Bentley
Isabel Holland
Joe Bentley
Christleton War Memorial
Christleton War Memorial Wreaths
Members of the Village Community, Parish Councils, British Legion, Uniformed Organisations, Church Choir
The Trumpeter who played the “Last Post” was Joe Bentley
Flowers and wreathes from the Community decorated the War Memorial
Two memebers of the company with a student
Alan Robinson and Bery Cummings
Alan Robinson and Bery Cummings
War Voices Project Stall
Councillor Janet Brown with Stephen Mosley MP
Richard Nicholson and Phil Hirst
Filming the Timeline
Timeline on the iMac
David Cummings interviewing in the churchyard
Janet Brown by her family grave
Christleton Great War Stories
CHRISTLETON GREAT WAR STORIES
Published December 2015
This
Special Commemorative Publication
is now available
Project leader David Cummings writes a monthly column about the Village and its soldiers in WWI
September 2014
The Work of the War Graves Commission and the story of some of the Fallen from the Village.
October 2014
War Horse in Christleton & William Mathews Chester & Wales Footballer buried in the churchyard
© 2018 Richard Nicholson