Even as recently as the Second World War, and somewhat beyond, the Parish of Urswick was the home of rural communities made up of families, a high percentage of whom had a continuity of living in the locality for several generations.  The young men who died in the wars were part of those communities and their loss to their families was also a loss felt by their entire community.  Those days have now gone and the communities which sustained those losses have been broken and lost.  It is fitting therefore that those who learned about the young men who gave their lives, as a consequence of growing up within, but during the dying years of those same communities, should contribute to their memory.  This empathetic awareness of shared culture and shared values will shortly die too, and from thence be beyond resurrection.

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