Henry says remember 'the few'

WITH another Remembrance Day behind us, reader Henry Collins has been musing over the 'forgotten few' - those who served on the home front, such as the nursing profession, the emergency services and ordinary civilians who became victims of war.

Henry, of Woodlands Road, Haresfinch, suggests that it is not too late, even now, to honour their memories.

"Many other towns," he says, "have some form of public reminder that local civilians also lost their lives. Although St Helens did not suffer on the same scale as near neighbours Liverpool, there were several fatalities when bombs fell on places such as Charles, Morgan, Talbot and Farnworth streets.

"It would be a fitting tribute," suggests Henry, "if the names of 'the few' could be added to the Cenotaph.

"Perhaps the most piognant reminders of those dark days can be seen in the old graveyard of St Anne's, Sutton. It is a monument marking the resting place of three teenagers from Sutton Leach, killed during the 1941 Blitz."

Friends from childhood, the three - Helen Sheridan (18) Margaret Mary Lowery and Rose Helen Moffat (19) had been working as nurses at a Manchester Hospital which received a direct bomb hit.

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