A SMALL group gathered on Saturday to remember five people who either died in the First World War or shortly afterwards and whose remains rest at St Leonard’s Churchyard in Ludlow.
The churchyard has not been used for more than 30 years and some of the graves have been discovered within the past decade – one of them in 2006 by Ludlow’s current deputy Mayor Paul Kemp while he was out walking his dog.
The impact of those terrible years is told by one gravestone in particular which marks the last resting place of a sailor from the Great War Henry ‘Harry’ Hill.
It also contains a commemoration of his brother William, a soldier who is buried where he fell in 1915 fighting the Battle of Ypres and their sister who died around the end of the war after becoming a victim of the global Spanish Flu epidemic.
There is a tradition for a service of remembrance to be help in the St Leonard’s Churchyard on the Saturday before Remembrance Sunday.
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