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REMEMBERING WITH PRIDE
Robin, Denny, Billy and Elma - remembering James and William
REMEMBRANCE Sunday had special meaning this year for two of Askrigg’s best-known couples, whose families each lost sons in the First World War. Elma and Billy Banks of The Greets, and Denny and Robin Minnitt of Seata House, saw memorial vases dedicated to William Banks and James Preston restored to St Oswald’s Church in time for the Service of Remembrance this Sunday.An appeal for silk poppies to place in the vases appeared in the last issue of Oswald’s Outlook, and a number of people responded – including a regular reader from Leyburn, Maureen Dinsdale. Read the rest of this entry
LEST WE FORGET . . .
“They were numbered among those who, at the call of king and country, left all that was dear to them, endured hardness, faced danger, and finally passed out of the sight of men by the path of duty and self-sacrifice, giving up their own lives that others might live in freedom. Let those who come after see to it that their names not be forgotten.”
