1st Porthill Scout Group's Page of Remembrance
This web site is dedicated to the members of the 1st Stoke-on-Trent & Newcastle, St. Andrew's, Porthill Scout Group who died in the World Wars.
In St. Andrew's Church is a Memorial and a stained glass window in memory of the members of the Troop who died in The Great War - World War 1. The names of those listed are as follows. They are shown as they are commemorated, and in the order they are, on the memorial -
1st St. Andrews Porthill Scout killed in World War 2
In December 2011 and January 2012 we found that three of our original 1908 Scouts were also killed in WW1. They too are now rememered here.
Outside the Church is a War Memorial with the names of all those from Parish who were killed in both World Wars. The Scouts killed in the Great War are again commemorated on separate tables.
Click here to see the memorial and window and the outside memorial.
Click on each Scout's name and see their memorial details on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission's web site.
Please see our history site to read a bit more about and see photographs of some of our Scouts who were killed in the Great War.
We now know a great deal more information about these Scouts and this information will be posted on our history site in due course. If anyone wants to know anything about them in the mean time, please get in touch with us.
It appears that no one else from the Group was killed in World War 2 or in any wars since. If anyone knows any better, please contact us by clicking here.
THEY SHALL NOT
GROW 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 SHALL REMEMBER THEM.