Remembrance Service 2022
By Mark Stevens
15/11/22
Exeter Rugby Club Deputy Chief Executive Kieron Northcott led the tributes at Saturday's special Remembrance Service, which took place prior to the Gallagher Premiership Rugby clash between Exeter Chiefs and London Irish.
Northcott was joined on the pitch ahead of kick-off by Director of Rugby, Rob Baxter, the two teams and match officials, as well as Les Kiss and Bill Pulling (London Irish), Commander Steve Henaghen (representing HMS Defender), Lieutenant Colonel Edward Hall (Royal Marines CTC Lympstone), Lieutenant Colonel Crispin D'Apice (6th Batralion Rifles), Major Owen Mitchell (6th Battalion Rifles), Councillor Trish Oliver (Exeter City Council) and Maurice Hayes (Royal British Legion Standard Bearer).
Club chaplain Simon Atkinson once again oversaw the service, which included special mention to the 25 former Exeter Rugby Club players who were killed in battle during World Wars I and II.
The Last Post and Reveille were performed by Buglers Lance Corporal Aaron Hall and Corporal Matt Abbott of the Band of Her Majesty’s Royal Marines.
REMEMBERING THE FALLEN
FIRST WORLD WAR
Captain George Howard Bickley
Serjeant Harry John Carrington
Rifleman James Henry Cook
Private Geoffery Herbert Culverwell
Captain William John Edmonds
Lieutenant William Setten Goff M.C.
Lieutenant Sidney Eames Hucklebridge
Serjeant Emrys Jones
Captain Maurice Harry Donne Parsons
Second Lieutenant Charles Edward Tudor-Jones
Major John Leonard Veitch M.C.
Lance Corporal Albert Henry Webber
SECOND WORLD WAR
Lieutenant William George Cann
Lieutenant Edwin Harry Coombe
Captain Peter Alexander Davis
Lieutenant Gavin Heriot Galbraith
Lieutenant Colonel Alfred Capel Gostling
Major Frederick James Job
Major Peter Henry Lawless M.C.
Flight Sergeant William Milford McGrath
Captain Charles Marten Osman
Major George Tristram Palmer
Warrant Officer Class II Albert John Raddon
Major Henry Rew
M.S. Smith
