My father was the last of an uninterrupted line of "George Pardoe"s each named in memory of a member of the Marines Artillery during the Crimean War. I wanted to find a forgotten Pardoe to commemorate as part of the Everyman Remembered campaign - and here I found another George - and another gunner! The Pardoe family tree seems quite fragmented but I hope all of those Pardoes who are currently lying forgotten in "some corner of a foreign field" will come to be commemorated. We must never forget how their sacrifice laid the foundation for our current way of life: our freedom, our prosperity, and our values!

David Pardoe