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GUEST BOOKAs a visitor to this site, we would be very grateful if you would sign our public Guest Book. Please enter your name and email address into the box below along with any comments you would like to make. Then click 'Submit Comments'. Your comments will then be added to those of other people below. If you would like to send your comments to us privately then please use the email address or form on the Contact Us page.
Two of my brothers have been here before me! Peter and I are hoping to visit Ors in April this year (2006). I'm very pleased to have seen a picture of John Vincent for the first time.It's now the wallpaper on my computer. I now live in Oswestry which is the birthplace of Wilfred Owen. There is a memorial in Oswestry to Wilfred Owen which has two of his most well known poems, one of which makes me think of JV every time I read it. Pretty appropriate for a son of Bickerstaffe I would say ! An excellent site.... thank you Paul Coxhead paulcoxhead@clara.co.uk 11 November 2005 An excellent site. I am very proud of my Great Uncle, John Vincent Coxhead, especially today, 11th November 2005, 87 years after he was killed. He will be remembered for years to come. Peter Coxhead / coxheads@supanet.com 15 November 2004 A very impressive site and I am very pleased to see a photograph of my great uncle, John Vincent Coxhead to show to his great, great nieces and nephews. fcoxhead@btinternet.com 22 December 2003 Id just like to say its been a pleasure going through your site. The job you have done, and the work you are doing, is a credit to all involved. Too many of our young today are unaware of the sacrifice made by so many, not that long ago, that give them their present day freedom, and if they were taught more about this, then maybe they would value that freedom, and use their lives in a better way. Thank you. Lest we forget. Tommy 04 September 2003 I stumbled across your site looking for something else and have rarely seen such a beautiful commemoration to the men who did not come back from two wars. They would be very proud of what you have done. I shall let all my colleagues and friends interested in the period of history know about your site. Anne Pedley 03 September 2003 "Bickerstaffe Remembers" is a fascinating website. My uncle was Edward Moss; he died 8 years before I was born but I've always wanted to know more about him and the exact circumstances of his death. Today I have seen seen a picture of him for the first time and read the harrowing details of WWII POW's forced to worked on the Burma Railway ; it was a very moving experience for me. Congratulations on putting together this excellent historical work. John Moss Houston, Texas, USA 22 June 2003 I visited Bickerstaffe church on the 19/6/03 and found some of my ancestors on the war memorial. Thomas Rawsthorne was my maternal great uncle, his father being my great grandfather. Also there are two of his cousins on the memorial as are others from Elm Place. My great grandmother Elizabeth Rawsthorne lived at Elm Place until she died in the 1960s aged 98. I can remember when we were children coming to Ormskirk to visit and go potato picking. Please could you tell me what the final death toll was for Elm Place. Last year I visited the war graves in Belgium and stayed in Yper. I must say that it is a credit to the war graves commission who keep them beautiful. I would also like to congratulate you on all the hard work that you have obviously put into the building of the website. It has been a great asset in adding something to my family tree.
Best wishes.
22 April 2003 Congratulations to Ron Taylor for collecting this valuable historic record Peter & Sally Taylor petsaltay@xtra.co.nz 13 April 2003 I think your Bickerstaffe Remembers site is excellent!!! We have just come back from our 3rd battlefield visit with the school. We went to Notre Dame do Lorette, French National Cemetery, and several cemeteries associated with Gainsborough soldiers killed in WWI. We visited the grave of the great great great grandfather of one of our Y10 pupils. We are close to putting the Gainsborough R of H on the web. Have made much progress since I came to see you 2 years ago. Peter Bradshaw
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