Liverpool & South West Lancashire FHS - Forum

This is not strictly family history, but topical. The commentary on the service held in Westminster Abbey last night mentioned the Revd. David Railton, an army chaplain during the Great War, who came up with the idea of commemorating the war dead by the burial of an unknown warrior.
It seems not to be widely known that before 1914 Mr Railton had served his first curacy in an Edge Hill parish after some training under the bishop of Liverpool. He then moved away but returned as Rector of Liverpool, serving the parish of St. Nicholas immediately before WW2.

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Captain Peter Wood who is the Building Manager of St Nicholas mentioned that during a brief tour of the church a week ago, yes something I hadn't heard before either.