The moment when a little girl saw the name of her father on Glossop’s town centre War Memorial and turned to her mother to say, “Look, Mummy”.
The poignant picture was taken by a Chronicle photographer on Remembrance Day 1949.
Glossop Council was commemorating the dead of the Second World War by placing plaques bearing their names on the Norfolk Square Cenotaph.
Among the local heroes who gave their lives for their country was Stanley Turner from Mill Street, and looking on was his daughter Elizabeth who could probably not remember him.
It was the fair-haired little girl’s sixth birthday; she was just eight months old when her father was killed in action.
The Chronicle reported that the service was ‘moving’ and on a bitterly cold morning described the crowd on that auspicious day as ‘rather sparse’.
The new bronze tablets bearing the names of up to 150 Glossopdale men killed in the war were unveiled by Glossop Mayor Cllr Ernest Higton and joined plaques carrying the names of the town’s 300 First World War casualties.
The service was conducted by the Rev. E. Lloyd Lister.
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