A hero’s repose
DESPITE receiving terrible injuries to his body, not to mention the mental scarring he must have suffered after several years of trench warfare, a soldier by the name of George Crowther created this wonderful piece of embroidery while he was convalescing at a hospital somwhere here in the Midlands.
He had fought at Passchendaele where he lost a leg and his work of art came into the hands of Jim Fletcher over sixty years ago. Jim told us: “It is a remarkable and exquisite piece of embroidery by a man who must have belonged to the South Staffs Regiment. His torment on the battlefield was replaced by a need to find peace and tranquility in his needlework.”