Peter Field, Her Majesty’s Lord Lieutenant of East Sussex, officially unveiled a memorial plaque to mark the 100-year anniversary of the First World War at the BrightonandHoveJobs.com County Ground on Sunday.
The plaque, which carries the names of the 10 Sussex cricketers and the one club secretary who lost their lives during the First and Second World Wars, was erected on the wall of the Spen Cama Pavilion, next to the Sussex Cricket World Museum at Hove.
Sussex chairman Jim May DL introduced the ceremony in front of a large crowd, including local dignitaries, several former players, ECB executives and the Royal Sussex Regiment Stand Bearers, at the lunch interval on the opening day of Sussex’s LV= County Championship Division One clash with Northamptonshire.
A moving remembrance service today at Hove to commemorate the ten Sussex cricketers and one club secretary who lost their lives in the Wars
— Sussex CCC (@SussexCCC) July 6, 2014
After Field unveiled the plaque, there was a blessing by Father Philip Ritchie of the All Saints Church followed by a minute’s silence. A playing of the national anthem concluded proceedings.
Former Corporate Alf Hunt, 94, was in attendance to pay tribute to his ex-colleague Major Kenneth Scott, MC, who died next to him in the battlefield in the Second World War in Syracuse, Sicily.
May said: “This was a very appropriate tribute to those eleven young men who gave their lives in the service of their country. We are all pleased that there is a permanent memorial at Hove to record their sacrifice.”
