Marching towards the Somme
Jun 28th, 2006 | By admin | Category: IrelandAs the Somme anniversary approaches on Saturday, an Evening Herald photographer came to the church today to take photographs to go with a story they are doing about our service on Saturday.
The pictures he wanted were of the name “P. Horner” scratched into the back pew of the gallery and the name “Percy Horner” engraved as the first name on our war memorial. The name in wood and the name in brass were probably not many years apart – Percy was just twenty when he disappeared without trace on …