Remembering those who served and died and are buried in Southern Cemetery

Emma Fox introduces the tour visitors

I wish I had been able to go on the tour of the war graves at Southern Cemetery on Saturday.

The guide was Emma Fox who is always interesting and has run a number of such walks over the last couple of years.

David Harrop who alerted me to the event and commented

“Six members of the Stockport Western Front Association attended plus four others.

I was able to show my commemorative display which is now part of the fixtures at the cemetery.

John Prettyjohns VC

All the visitors were pleased with the tour which terminated at the poppy field. 

Its pleasing to see that there are many folk taking such an interest in our war time history.”

Now David is quite modest about his collection which is I think quite unique.

It covers both world wars and includes photographs, postcards, letters and official correspondence as well as medals some of which is on display at the Remembrance Hall close to the cemetery gates.

But Emma's tour was wider than the two great wars of the last century and focused on some of the men who had taken part in the smaller colonial wars of the 19th century, including that of Frederick Milne  survivor of the engagement at Rorke's Drift in 1879.

So if the tour comes around again I shall make every effort to be there.



Picture; from the collection of David Harrop