title: Celebrating Common Prayer: Pocket Edition
author: David Standcliffe
description: Bishop David Stancliffe is Chairman of the Church of England Liturgical Commission and is Bishop of Salisbury.
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  SIR TOMMY MACPHERSON
  
  
  
  
  
  CBE, MC**, TD, DL
  
  
  
  
  
  Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur,
  
  
  
  
  
  Croix de Guerre with 2 Palms and a Star,
  
  
  
  
  
  Medaglia d’Argento and Resistance Medal, Italy,
  
  
  
  
  
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  ‘For I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, and visit the sins of the fathers
  upon the children unto the third and fourth generation . . .’
  
  
  
  
  
  Book of Common Prayer
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  HARRY CLIFTON  
  
  
    
  
  
    
  
  
  1939–1941
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  ‘MY NAME IS HARRY CLIFTON.’
  
  
  
  
  
  ‘Sure, and I’m Babe Ruth,’ said Detective Kolowski as he lit a cigarette.
  
  
  
  
  
  ‘No,’ said Harry, ‘you don’t understand, there’s been a terrible mistake. I’m
  Harry Clifton, an Englishman from Bristol. I served on the same ship as Tom
  Bradshaw.’
  
  
  
  
  
  ‘Save it for your lawyer,’ said the detective, exhaling deeply and filling the
  small cell with a cloud of 