Students from Marple Hall School have interviewed member Selma Fielding about her recollections of her father Robert who saw military service as a Quarter Master Sergeant during WW1. The interview was recorded on video by the students and will be shown at a WW1 commemoration event at the school next year.
Selma showed the students some of her fathers service memorabilia including service medals and postcards. The students were surprised to learn that in those days before modern communications he wrote a letter or card every week!
The interview is part of the collaborative WW1 commemoration project between Marple Hall School and Marple Civic Society. Other activities will include joint working to identify war memorials for adding to the national register of war memorials and a Civic Society event later in 2015. The war memorials register is being created by Civic Voice in collaboration with the War Memorials Trust and is supported locally by Marple Civic Society.
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