Date:2nd of June 1918
Description:The funeral of sisters Gertrude Fanny Foster, aged 17, and Emily Mary Foster, aged 15, and their brother, John Thomas Foster, aged 11, of Brund Farm, Cheddleton took place at the Church of St. Edward the Confessor in Cheddleton on Sunday 2nd of June 1918. The children had tragically died by drowning in Deep Hay Pool, Wall Grange on Thursday, 29 May. They had been following an aeroplane flying overhead and eventually turned back for home by a direct route passing the pool. John had spotted a fish on the bank of the steep-sided pool. He tried to get it with a stick and fell in and his sisters drowned in attempting to save him. John Thomas was a probationer choirboy at the church and his coffin was taken into the church by fellow choristers. The sisters worked at Brittain’s paper mill. In this photograph the bearers are carrying the coffin of one of the girls into the church.
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Sisters Emily Mary Foster, aged 15, and Gertrude Fanny Foster, aged 17, of Brund Farm, Cheddleton. The ...
The funeral of John Thomas Foster aged 11, and his two sisters, Gertrude Fanny, aged 17, and Emily Mary ...
The funeral of sisters Gertrude Fanny Foster, aged 17, and Emily Mary Foster, aged 15, and their brother, ...
Mourners gathered at the funeral of sisters Gertrude Fanny Foster, aged 17, and Emily Mary Foster, aged ...
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Source: Staffordshire Museum Service
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