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Our local heroes

We were honoured to care for the families of these local servicemen. We will remember them.

In remembrance

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them.

  • Private Thomas Sephton, 1st Battalion The Mercian Regiment, who died in the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, on 5 July 2010, of wounds sustained during service in Afghanistan
  • Private Daniel Wade, 3rd Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment, killed in Afghanistan on 6 March 2012
  • Marine Steven James Birdsall, Bravo Company, 40 Commando Royal Marines, who died in the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, on 14 June 2010, as a result of a gunshot wound he suffered in Afghanistan