SEAFORTH WAR MEMORIAL
OUR LADY  STAR OF THE SEA 
FLANDERS CROSS
CMG - Order of St Michael & St George
DSO - Distinguished Service Order
TD - Territorial Decoration
DL - Deputy Lieutenant for Lancaster
Colonel Sir John Joseph Shute CMG, DSO, TD, DL
 1873-1948 
Born Liverpool 1873
Commanding Officer 1/5th King's (Liverpool Regiment) WWI
Mentioned in Dispatches five times

Member of Parliament for Liverpool Exchange
Died 1948


DD - Doctor of Divinty
Catholic Archbishop of Liverpool Richard Downey DD
 1881-1953 

Born Kilkenny, Ireland 1881
Ordained priest 1907
Appointed Archbishop of Liverpool 1928
Ordained Bishop 1928
Died 1953

A Cross in Flanders 

IN the face of death, they say, he joked—he had no fear;
His comrades, when they laid him in a Flanders grave,
Wrote on a rough-hewn cross—a Calvary stood near—
“Without a fear he gave

“His life, cheering his men, with laughter on his lips.”
So wrote they, mourning him. Yet was there only one
Who fully understood his laughter, his gay quips,
One only, she alone—

She who, not so long since, when love was new-confest,
Herself toyed with light laughter while her eyes were dim,
And jested, while with reverence despite her jest
She worshipped God and him.

She knew—O Love, O Death!—his soul had been at grips
With the most solemn things. For she, was she not dear?
Yes, he was brave, most brave, with laughter on his lips,
The braver for his fear!
by G. Rostrevor Hamilton
 

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