Guy's Story.
Birkenhead News 25 October 1916
Captain Guy Ravenscroft Killed.
Fine Actor and Sportsman.
We deeply regret to record the death of Captain Guy Ravenscroft, son of the late Mr. Joseph Ravenscroft, Backwood, Claughton, and of Mrs. Ravenscroft, who was killed in action on the 18th inst., aged 34. He joined the K.L.R. as a private, together with his brother, C. L. Ravenscroft, in September, 1914, and has been in France with his battalion since November, 1915. He was educated at Mostyn House School, Parkgate, and Clifton College.
The heroic band of Birkenhead Park football players who have been killed in action grows to an awful extent (writes “C.C.”), and today we deplore the loss of Captain Guy Ravenscroft, who has fallen in the strife. Guy Ravenscroft was a fine fellow. I enjoyed his friendship over a number of years, and when as a lanky youth he failed to develop weight many of the critics thought they saw a high-spirited laddie nipped in his promising career. He was, however, a jolly good forward, and his long list of hefty games for the Park was immense service to the club. As a member of the Birkenhead Dramatic Society he was one of the leading players. Who will forget him in company with A. S. Anderson and Harold Edgar in those wonderful nights at the Theatre Royal. What a trio of cultured sportsmen and gentlemen. Today we mourn their loss. One by one they have passed beyond our ken, victims of the merciless calamity which rages as pestilence. But they have died in a great cause. Guy Ravenscroft stood for everything manly, and in his soul he would not have wished for a more glorious finish.
Guy Ravenscroft in a Birkenhead Park Rugby Club team photograph
Guy Ravenscroft’s photograph and newspaper article by Chris Booth. Guy’s photograph with the rugby team courtesy of Birkenhead Park Rugby Club.
Captain Guy Ravenscroft Killed.
Fine Actor and Sportsman.
We deeply regret to record the death of Captain Guy Ravenscroft, son of the late Mr. Joseph Ravenscroft, Backwood, Claughton, and of Mrs. Ravenscroft, who was killed in action on the 18th inst., aged 34. He joined the K.L.R. as a private, together with his brother, C. L. Ravenscroft, in September, 1914, and has been in France with his battalion since November, 1915. He was educated at Mostyn House School, Parkgate, and Clifton College.
The heroic band of Birkenhead Park football players who have been killed in action grows to an awful extent (writes “C.C.”), and today we deplore the loss of Captain Guy Ravenscroft, who has fallen in the strife. Guy Ravenscroft was a fine fellow. I enjoyed his friendship over a number of years, and when as a lanky youth he failed to develop weight many of the critics thought they saw a high-spirited laddie nipped in his promising career. He was, however, a jolly good forward, and his long list of hefty games for the Park was immense service to the club. As a member of the Birkenhead Dramatic Society he was one of the leading players. Who will forget him in company with A. S. Anderson and Harold Edgar in those wonderful nights at the Theatre Royal. What a trio of cultured sportsmen and gentlemen. Today we mourn their loss. One by one they have passed beyond our ken, victims of the merciless calamity which rages as pestilence. But they have died in a great cause. Guy Ravenscroft stood for everything manly, and in his soul he would not have wished for a more glorious finish.
Guy Ravenscroft in a Birkenhead Park Rugby Club team photograph
Guy Ravenscroft’s photograph and newspaper article by Chris Booth. Guy’s photograph with the rugby team courtesy of Birkenhead Park Rugby Club.