AS part of the 2015 ANZAC day centenary we read out the names on the Roll of Honour at St peter’s Church. remembering the people from the parish who served and died in the First World War… We also read out the names of those from the parish who died in the Second World War remembered by a Silver Communion Chalice which was donated to the church in their honour.
The Roll of Honour read as following
ELLERSLIE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
ROLL OF HONOUR
FOR GOD, KING AND COUNTRY
1914 – 1918
Clarence Ralph ARTHUR
Harold Theodore ARTHUR
Donald CUMMING
Francis Edward Kenneth MacDONALD
William Frank FERGUSON
Robert Searson Rodney FRANCIS
Wilfred Lawrence GIESEN – Killed
Herbert Rowland HILL
James Dilworth MOSSMAN – Killed
Westlake James PLATT
William Morton RYBURN
Herbert George RICHARDSON – Killed
James Henry SARGENT
Frederick James WEIR – Killed
Lancelot Joseph WADDELL
Frank Ernest WOODWARD
John Walker WARDELL – Killed
Richard Campbell FROST
Robert James RICHMOND
George Harold THORPE – Died
Least We forget
And the inscription on the Communion Chalice reads
ELLERSLIE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
To the Glory of God
and in grateful remembrance of the men and women
of this Church who served in the Second World War 1939 – 1945
The following made the Supreme Sacrifice
- B. Boaden (Frank Bruce BOADEN)
- McLellan (Samuel McLELLAN)
- White (Vernon WHITE)
- J. Wilson (Allan John WILSON)
“Greater Love Hath No Man Than This”
