Remembrance day - CHRIST CHURCH CHATBURN

This years service will be held at 10.50am on 12th November 2023.

Donate to the British Legion Poppy appeal on this link

Chatburn and Worston War Memorial (Fully restored thanks to Village Council)

It was 100 years since the end of the first world war on 11/11/2018.

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 - 1918 Roll of Honour for

Chatburn and Worston

whose lives were given to save others.

* Methodist Remembrance Board

When you go home tell them of us and say,

for tomorrow we gave our today.

- The Kohima Epitaph

1939 - 1945 Roll of Honour for

Chatburn and Worston

Poppy

"In Flanders Fields" by John McCrae (1915)

In Flanders fields the poppies blow

Between the crosses, row on row

That mark our place; and in the sky

The larks, still bravely singing, fly

Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago

We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,

Loved and were loved, and now we lie

In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:

To you from failing hands we throw

The torch; be yours to hold it high.

If ye break faith with us who die

We shall not sleep, though poppies grow

In Flanders fields.

After witnessing the carnage of WWI John McCrae wrote

In "Flanders Fields".

McCrae, a Canadian, was a medical officer in the

Boer War and World War I.