Liverpool Pembroke & Sefton are a club with a long and distinguished history, we are rightly proud of our many outstanding athletes over the last 128 years, so I won’t let today pass without recording one of our most illustrious members. The 4th August 2017 marks the 100 year anniversary of the death of Captain Noel […]
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Noel Chavassee VC,Bar & MC
Alan Cooper an old friend of ours from the Sefton Harriers days was recently on a touring holiday in France, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium and on the way back he made a Sefton Harriers pilgrimage to Noel Chavasse’s grave. Noel died as a results of injuries sustained at the Battle of Passchendaele on the 4th August […]
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Sefton Harriers Roll of Honour
2014 as we know marks the centenary of the outbreak of WW1 and during the latter part of May this year I had the opportunity to visit some of the WW1 battlefields and cemeteries of Belgium and France. It was of particular interest to me as like many of my generation I can still recall […]
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1914 Remembered
It is the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War. It was called the Great War but there was nothing particularly `great’ about it. It will be remembered mostly for the sheer volume of human sacrifice. There are already different perspectives being presented but overwhelmingly it will be that of incompetent leadership balanced […]
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