REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY
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And smiling on our local Army Cadets too. Ours was at 15:00hrs and was the second service they had attended today having spent all day yesterday selling poppies out in the pouring rain. They are great young people who attend both services and do their stint collecting every year.
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May I report an excellent parade at the Cenotaph in St Helier?
Dry and sunny. All the uniformed organisations on parade, from the Royal Militia of the Island of Jersey (RE)(TA) to the 3 Cadet organisations, Police, Lifeboats, St John Ambulance, Scouts, etc. The Band of The Island of Jersey provided the essential musical accompaniment. And of course the Old and Bold, augmented by 4 Chelsea Pensioners who deployed to assist in Poppy selling.
Fine March-Past for the Lt Governor and The Bailiff, culminating in a "Ride Past" by the Jersey Bikers. The latter then conducted their own wreath-laying (many of course ex-Military) and their own Poppy donation of £700, as they charge their members to take part today. Never judge a book by the cover!!
Dry and sunny. All the uniformed organisations on parade, from the Royal Militia of the Island of Jersey (RE)(TA) to the 3 Cadet organisations, Police, Lifeboats, St John Ambulance, Scouts, etc. The Band of The Island of Jersey provided the essential musical accompaniment. And of course the Old and Bold, augmented by 4 Chelsea Pensioners who deployed to assist in Poppy selling.
Fine March-Past for the Lt Governor and The Bailiff, culminating in a "Ride Past" by the Jersey Bikers. The latter then conducted their own wreath-laying (many of course ex-Military) and their own Poppy donation of £700, as they charge their members to take part today. Never judge a book by the cover!!
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Never judge a book by the cover!!
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At 11:00 on 11 Nov 1918, the guns fell silent. Pte Bertie Hallett was in Louth Hospital, he had been casevac'd from the battlefields. The Nurses told him the the war was over and he wouldn't "have to go back".
Later that evening, 95 years ago, Bertie died, at peace with the knowledge his fiends were safe. As the sun goes down tonight, remember Bertie, my Great Uncle, who gave his life in the Great War.
His war-grave is in North Somercotes Parish Cemetery, some of will you fly within a few hundred meters on every bombing/strafing run at Donna Nook.
RIP Pte Bertie Hallett 1898 - 1918
Later that evening, 95 years ago, Bertie died, at peace with the knowledge his fiends were safe. As the sun goes down tonight, remember Bertie, my Great Uncle, who gave his life in the Great War.
His war-grave is in North Somercotes Parish Cemetery, some of will you fly within a few hundred meters on every bombing/strafing run at Donna Nook.
RIP Pte Bertie Hallett 1898 - 1918
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Lovely service at the Christian Cemetery in Bahrain this morning and how wonderful to have the Red Arrows team in attendance. We went back to the British Embassy after for lunch and I got speaking to Reds 3, 6, 9 and team leader Red 1, Jim Turner, they are all lovely blokes and what a wonderful job they do. I believe they are BBQ'íng tonight and then off to Muscat tomorrow they will be in Dubai for 5 days of the air show.
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Stood alone in the rain at Lyneham churchyard this morning.
I listened hard and could almost hear the "Start of 2 minutes silence" tannoy broadcast.
Instead I heard the faint sound of a bugle playing the Last Post and Reveille.
I listened hard and could almost hear the "Start of 2 minutes silence" tannoy broadcast.
Instead I heard the faint sound of a bugle playing the Last Post and Reveille.
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I spent Remembrance Day at the WWII RAF Bomber Command aerodrome at Wickenby in Lincolnshire and attended the Memorial Service there.
I flew there in a modern Cessna and later in the day when I got airborne to return home and looked down at Wickenby from 3000 feet and looked east to the North Sea, a familiar sight to any Bomber Command airman in Lincolnshire and I wondered how many of the 1080 young men killed on operations from Wickenby had looked down from the same vantage point and wondered whether they would ever see England again.
I flew there in a modern Cessna and later in the day when I got airborne to return home and looked down at Wickenby from 3000 feet and looked east to the North Sea, a familiar sight to any Bomber Command airman in Lincolnshire and I wondered how many of the 1080 young men killed on operations from Wickenby had looked down from the same vantage point and wondered whether they would ever see England again.
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Basil - same round here. ISTR a memorial somewhere locally with 4 or 5 of the same name - brothers, cousins, whatever - horrible.
Having a particular interest in The Great War (and the societal changes it brought), I never fail to stop and read all of the names in my head. It seems awful to just pass by. To me, part of remembering is to look at each name and acknowledge the person.
At one village in Berkshire, I noticed about 40 names on the town memorial. Now back then the whole village and area could not have had more than 150 people.
But 40 names were on that cenotaph from 1914-18. And 20 of them had the same surname.
And even worse, on alot of these village memorials the names listed right after for 1939-1945 also are the same surname. Cousins? Sons? It's awful.
Cannot even imagine loss on that scale.
But wearing my poppy here in the U.S. (Not that anybody knows what it is, but wearing it anyway). Get some perplexed looks though--paper poppy on coat. Must look odd to somebody who does not know what it means.
Touching news item in the last few days concerning a lady, widowed in WW1 at age 21 who is still selling poppies at age 91. RESPECT!
Of course he's one of the idle parasites who do nothing to justify their expense and whom the republicans want to get rid of!
baggersup - There was an interesting item on the radio the other day about the so-called "lucky villages" which dont have a war memorial for the simple reason that they lost no-one in either World War. It seems to be nothing more than random chance - a similar sized village a few miles away might have lost a dozen men, while all theirs came home safe.
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On the church wall of a nearby village there is a plaque commemorating those lost in WWI. One is a lieutenant, the other 10 or so are cpls and privates, all in the same regiment. He was probably the son of the local gentry and most likely died alongside his village men.
101 1stWW names on this one, and in those days Attleborough was not that big (9000 in the 1911 census)
Roll of Honour - Norfolk - Attleborough
Roll of Honour - Norfolk - Attleborough
The small town of Beford, Virginia is the site of the D-Day Memorial in the United States. The Memorial is dedicated to all of the Troops who participated in the Overlord Operation and the Flags of all the Nations involved fly there each day.
Bedford was selected because of the severe losses incurred by that community during the day of and subsequent to the invasion.
Twenty-Three Men were killed.....from a Town that had a population of about 3,200 people.
It was said....every family in Bedford had lost someone.....Son, Father, Brother, Cousin, Nephew.
It is a beautiful place.....and a wonderful tribute.
The Bedford Boys - National D-Day Memorial
Bedford was selected because of the severe losses incurred by that community during the day of and subsequent to the invasion.
Twenty-Three Men were killed.....from a Town that had a population of about 3,200 people.
It was said....every family in Bedford had lost someone.....Son, Father, Brother, Cousin, Nephew.
It is a beautiful place.....and a wonderful tribute.
The Bedford Boys - National D-Day Memorial
Yesterday morning I was on Trans-Pennine Express on my way to York. Just before 11.00am the conductor came on the PA to announce that she would like the whole train to observe a two-minute silence.
Until she said "thank you very much ladies and gentlemen" two minutes later there wasn't a sound in my carriage.
Brilliant!
Until she said "thank you very much ladies and gentlemen" two minutes later there wasn't a sound in my carriage.
Brilliant!
How do they know ... ?
I was in the vets yesterday with the pup, appointment 10:30, but still waiting at 11:00, along with numerous other fairly noisy dogs and a few cats in baskets adding to the din.
Receptionist got up at 10:58 and opened the door to the outside so we could all hear the church clock and the bugles at the memorial. All the staff came into reception.
As the clock struck and the traffic outside came to a halt, all the owners stood, and ALL the animals just laid down and went quiet, and remained so for the full 2 minutes ... not a whimper, bark, growl or mewl from a single animal, until the end of the "Last Post" sounded.
As we all sat down all the noise started up again.
Thank you to the staff but ... just how did all the pets know ?????
Receptionist got up at 10:58 and opened the door to the outside so we could all hear the church clock and the bugles at the memorial. All the staff came into reception.
As the clock struck and the traffic outside came to a halt, all the owners stood, and ALL the animals just laid down and went quiet, and remained so for the full 2 minutes ... not a whimper, bark, growl or mewl from a single animal, until the end of the "Last Post" sounded.
As we all sat down all the noise started up again.
Thank you to the staff but ... just how did all the pets know ?????
A crisp bright day today with the same timeless scenario played out at the Cenotaph and every war memorial in city or village alike. Timeless perhaps is the operative word as bizarrely our town ceremony, with a service relayed from the church in the grounds of which the memorial is sited, observed the silence two minutes ahead of the rest of the nation. Thus it ended as the church clock chimed eleven o'clock. Easier than stopping it chiming perhaps?
After the wreath laying the Service Associations, Cadets, Scouts and other voluntary organisations marched past the Lord Lieutenant of West Sussex, Mrs Susan Pyper, led by a very impressive ATC Pipe Band. A very good turnout, again mirroring the National Ceremony.
After the wreath laying the Service Associations, Cadets, Scouts and other voluntary organisations marched past the Lord Lieutenant of West Sussex, Mrs Susan Pyper, led by a very impressive ATC Pipe Band. A very good turnout, again mirroring the National Ceremony.