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Hidden War Memorial in St Wilfrid's, Standish
Photo: Rev David Long
Photo: Rev David Long
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Item #: 28180
Item #: 28180
The Haydock Memorial table in the Duxbury Chapel of St Wilfrid's Church, Standish is actually a hidden War Memorial to a hero of the first American offensive action of WW1.
The George Guest Haydock commemorated as the last name on the memorial was killed in the opening attack on the German lines at Cantigny on the Somme on May 28th 1918. This was the first American offensive attack of WW1.
1st Lieutenant Haydock commanded Company L of the 28th Infantry and was killed attacking a machine gun post, for which he was awarded the Silver Star.
No mention is made of this on the Memorial - but it is presumably the motivation behind his family wanting to place the memorial in St Wilfrid's in 1922.
The George Guest Haydock commemorated as the last name on the memorial was killed in the opening attack on the German lines at Cantigny on the Somme on May 28th 1918. This was the first American offensive attack of WW1.
1st Lieutenant Haydock commanded Company L of the 28th Infantry and was killed attacking a machine gun post, for which he was awarded the Silver Star.
No mention is made of this on the Memorial - but it is presumably the motivation behind his family wanting to place the memorial in St Wilfrid's in 1922.
Today I visited the Church of St. John the Divine, in Coppull, and there's another marble tablet there, very different design, dated 1926, but with the same names mentioned, including George Guest Haydock. The Coppull tablet was paid for and erected by Robert Roger Haydock, of Milton, Massachusetts.
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