DAVID MORGAN, has produced a series of often moving articles about the sacrifices made by the men and women of the parish in the 20th Century’s two world wars.
Here, we have compiled an online archive of some of those articles, so we might all better remember them
How ‘chums’ and Contemptibles set standards at the Minster
The Croydon schoolboy who was among the first Ypres casualties
The Town Hall hero of the Great War who ran Croydon’s baths
Day that ‘Croydon Boys’ mourned their Secret Army heroine
How Croydon Parish Church remembered its brother in arms
Surrey Street’s Pightling holds unique place in WWI memorials
Family keepsakes providing last link to another of war’s victims
Croydon postman lost forever on the battlefields of France
Officer’s distinguished service on Western and Home fronts
How a search for a new life ended in wartime death in the Sinai
Canadian Air Force hero’s sacrifice to help save his D-Day crew
Victorian church painting that leads to a Great War tragedy
How Corporal Luff’s cross became a symbol for all Croydon
Wartime tragedy that devastated one Croydon family
The double tragedy in war suffered by a wife and mother
‘For Gallantry’: Croydon hero who died at Passchendaele
Until the daybreak mother: Fourfold tragedy of Croydon family
Minster memorials that tell the terrible toll of world wars
The tale of a Croydon private’s life and death on the Somme
Purley schoolboy who reached for the sky in Battle of Britain
The brothers in arms who lost their lives at Ypres and Gallipoli
- David Morgan is a former Croydon headteacher, now the volunteer education officer at Croydon Minster, who offers tours or illustrated talks on the history around the Minster for local community groups. If you would like a group tour of Croydon Minster or want to book a school visit, then ring the Minster Office on 020 688 8104 or go to the website on www.croydonminster.org and use the contact page
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