Over the past few weeks I have been busy arranging events and talks to raise the profile of the Chorley Remembers project.
On the 11th of November I was at Astley Hall where I met several people who had come to search through the remembrance books for details of relatives lost during World War One. On Remembrance Sunday I felt very privileged to lay a wreath at the cenotaph and also take part in the march and service at St Laurence’s church.
I am currently doing some background research on some local men who died during World War One. Many of them had served with the Lancashire Fusiliers and as I was looking for more information about the regiment and where they served, I decided to pay a visit to the Fusiliers Museum in Bury last Sunday. It was very interesting and informative and I would recommend a visit!
Looking into the backgrounds of so many service people and finding out about where they served has inspired me to find out some more about my relatives who served in both world wars and record what I have found. I’ll keep you posted on my progress via this blog and I hope it will encourage others to find out about their relatives too.
Now that we have this website up and running, a large part is going to be dedicated to our local people who died whilst serving this country. If you have got any information you would like to share about relatives who lived or were born in Chorley and died during a conflict (it doesn’t have to be the world wars) then please get in touch with us.
Finally, I’ll be at Adlington Library on the 30th November where I’ll be giving a short talk on what we hope to achieve through the project and some information about men from the Adlington area who served during the First World War.
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