Everton Remembrance Service Held At Goodison Park

Representatives from the Armed Forces, Everton Football Club and Everton fan groups gathered together at Goodison Park on Wednesday morning for the annual Everton Remembrance Day Service.

Organised by the Football Club and the Everton FC Heritage Society, the ceremony was led by Reverend Henry Corbett, the Chaplain to Finch Farm, and Father Paul Harris.

Club Ambassadors Ian Snodin and Graham Stuart laid wreaths on behalf of the Football Club and the Everton Former Players' Foundation, who were also represented by former Blues winger Ronny Goodlass.

The British Army, Royal Air Force, Royal Navy and Merchant Navy also laid floral tributes, as did the Everton Shareholders' Association, the Everton Former Players’ Foundation, Everton in Community and Everton Free School.

Everton in the Community’s veterans programme, the Everton Fan Advisory Board, the Tri-Service Toffees, the Everton Collection, Everton Football College and the Ruleteros Society were also represented.

Heritage Society member, Paul Kelly, delivered a short address, while a representative from Everton in the Community's veterans programme read the names of the fallen from the Everton Football Clubs of Merseyside, Chile and New Zealand. Bugler Sam Lovatt played the Last Post at 11am, preceding a two-minute period of silence.

Remembrance Day is commemorated every year on 11 November to mark the armistice signed between the Allies of the First World War and Germany at Compiègne, France, for the cessation of hostilities which took effect at 11am – the ‘11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month’ – in 1918.

Those remembered from the three football clubs were:

First World War: Edward Atkinson, Frank Boundy, Harold Boyne, William Braidwood, James Brannick, Thomas Brewer, David Campbell, Arnold Cantell, Jeffrey Carmichael, Henry Churchill, Frederick Collinson, Alfred Corlett, Malcolm Fraser, Thomas Gracie, David Murray, Harry Norris, Thomas Norse, Leigh Richmond Roose, James Roy, Donald Sloan, Wilfred Toman, Richard Wynne.

Second World War: Brian Atkins, Alfred Pennington, William Reid, Thomas Robson, William Sumner.