Remembrance Sunday has added poignancy for Rye Cricket Club

By The Newsroom

Published 12th Nov 2018, 21:34 BST

Updated 12th Nov 2018, 22:36 BST

The headstone of former Rye cricketer Charles Pepper

There is the added poignancy this Remembrance Sunday, 100 years on from November 11, 1918, of remembering those who made the ultimate sacrifice.

Rye Cricket Club has cause to remember a player who made the ultimate sacrifice, but one tinged with extraordinary sadness and irony.

On September 17, 1917 at Paschendale, Sergeant Bill Pepper, aged 42, of the Notts and Derbyshire, Sherwood Foresters Regiment, was killed by a shell. He was buried at La Clytte Military Cemetery.