This Remembrance Day, Embsay Cricket Club remembers those players who were killed in the Great War 1914-1918 and the Second World War 1939-1945.

They were:

1914 to 1918
J Birkett – Duke of Wellington West Riding Regiment
B Elmsley – Royal Fusiliers
J Inman – Royal Engineers
Lewis Hull Phillip – Duke of Wellington West Riding Regiment
Tom Harry Read – Duke of Wellington West Riding Regiment
Sam Read – Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
O Riley – Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
James William “Willie” Scott – Duke of Wellington West Riding Regiment
Tom Watson – Yorkshire and Lancashire Regiment

1939 to 1945
P. H. Edmunds
A Houston
B Marshall
W Mattock

They shall grow not old as we that are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.

(For the Fallen, by Robert Laurence Binyon. 1869-1943)

Trevor Coe – ECC Chairman