The crosses that we erected last year for Remembrance Sunday will again be on display at Copythorne Parish Church

 The 11th cross was placed  at 11am on Friday 30th October

 in memory of Harry Colbourne R.N.

The 10th cross was laid at 11am on Thursday 13th August in memory of

 James Harvey Goucher, 2nd Battalion, The Hampshire Regiment

The 9th cross was laid at 11am on Friday 7th August in memory of

Albert Painter, 2nd Battalion, The Hampshire Regiment

The 8th cross was laid at 11am on Sunday 12th July in memory of

Charles Effemy, Mercantile Marine

The 7th cross was laid at 11am on Saturday 1st August in memory

 of Richard Tanfield Vachell, 1st Battalion, The Northumberland Fusiliers

The 6th cross was laid at 11 am on Saturday, 9th May in Memory of Talbot Fitzroy Eden Stanhope, 2nd Battalion, The Rifle Brigade.

The 5th cross was laid at 11am on 5th May
 in memory of Ian Douglas Dalrymple, 2nd Battalion the Highland Light Infantry

The 4th cross was laid  at 11am on 4th May in memory of Harry Jackson, Chatham Battalion, Royal Marine Light Infantry

The 3rd cross was laid at 11am on Sunday 3rd May

in memory of Rupert Effemy, Royal Marine Light Infantry

The fourth cross was laid at 11am on Monday 4th may

in memory of Harry Jackson, The Royal Marine Light Infantry

The fifth cross was laid at 11am on Tuesday 5th May

 in memory of Ian Dalrymple, Highland Light Infantry

Memorial Garden for WW1

A small memorial garden has been created just inside the main gate at St. Mary's Church, Copythorne. This will stay until the last cross has been placed, which will be in about four years time

A cross will be placed on the 100th anniversary of each man's date of death

 The first one was placed at 11am on Wednesday 11th March, 2015 

in memory of  James Patterson RN who served on HMS " Bayano"

 

The second cross was placed at 11am on Tuesday 28th April, 2015

 in memory of James Jones, The Hampshire Regiment

Many thanks to all those people who attended our exhibition day on the 7th March, 2015.

Everybody we spoke to said how much they enjoyed the day. Once again photographs that we have not seen before were bought in and we scanned them into the computer. If you have any stories or photographs of our Parish please get in touch.

Don't forget our exhibition is on this weekend!

Saturday 7th March 2015

10am to 5pm

£1 entrance

Refreshments will be served all day

HISTORY MEETINGS FOR 2015

 JAN 20th    AGM followed by Surprise      Pauline Amey

FEB 17th    Curiouser & Curiouser             Geoff Watts

March 7th   HISTORY DAY EXHIBITION   10am - 5pm

March 17th  Two Legacies for Copythorne  John Arney  

April 21st    Tip to Toe                                Betty Doughty

May 19th    Florence Nightingale            Russell Foster

June 16th        A Builder's Home                John Samways

July 21st             Treasure in the Garden

Aug 18th   Tour of Bramshaw Church - meet at 7 for 7.30pm

Sept  15th         A Battlefield Trip                     Annie Sapp

Oct 20th      Not Just Jam and Jerusalem    Rosina Brandham

Nov 17th     Lawrence, Before and After     Colin van Gethan

Dec 15th              To be announced