Harvey Darke funeral directors are delighted to have engraved a memorial plaque to a local Sible Hedingham park which commemorates eight former employees of a well known local firm Rippers joinery, which was based in Sible Hedingham at the time of the first world war.
The full details of the engraving are as follows:
IN MEMOMORIAM
EMPLOYEES OF RIPPERS
- BERTIE AMBROSE
- FRANK DRURY
- RUPERT HAWKINS
- EDWARD MEAD
- SIDNEY PARTRIDGE
- HUBERT RIPPER
- EDWARD THORNTON
- ALFRED VALE
THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE
1914 – 1918
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