This was the summit of Great Gable on Sunday 10th November, just emerging from a light mist. As usual, climbers and hill-goers gathered for a 2 minutes silence at 11.00 am.
The occasion originates from the Fell and Rock Club, who installed a cast bronze war memorial on the summit of Great Gable commemorating the members of the club killed during WW1. The club purchased 12 fells in the central lakes and donated them to the National Trust in 1923.
This year saw the unveiling of a refurbished memorial.
The climbers all went their separate ways, and Dolly, Stuart, Steve and myself took our route down the west side and up again onto Kirk Fell in glorious cold and clear weather. Then steeply down the north-west ridge to Ennerdale and Black Sail, before returning over the shoulder of Fleetwith to Honister.
The last picture is a young man of 25. (Younger than most YMC members).
My grand-dad gave notice at work as soon as war was declared on 4th August 1914, and joined the XX Lancashire Fusiliers. He was injured at Gallipoli in 1915, enduring many privations, and injured again quite seriously on the Somme in 1916.
In poor health after the war, he died aged 51 in 1940, so I never knew him.
Hi Andrew
I’m still no wiser !!!!
Dolly