Southport Cenotaph - Michael Gilyeat

I recently received this e-mail from one of our own in Southport.

Good Morning,

I read your article in Corps Journal and you mentioned Cpl Gilyeat.

Just to let you know he is recorded on the Cenotaph in Southport along with Major Matt Tichner . I have laid a wreath each year for all RMP since 2004, when I returned from Iraq. Matt was my OC.

I have a chat each year with Cpl Gilyeat’s Father ,who attends the Southport service.

I will retire from RMP (TA) in 2012 and I am hoping to persuade 116 Coy to take over this role and I will then join RMPA and lay a wreath on their behalf as they have only been represented once at Southport since 2004.

The Mayor of Southport is very pro RMP and sends me lots of information each year on all sorts of happenings within the borough of Sefton.

Have a great Christmas and a peaceful 2012.

Ed Beaman
Senior Lecturer
School of Forensic & Investigative Sciences
University of Central Lancashire