Remembrance Sunday 11am 9th November 2008.

Discussion in 'All Anniversaries' started by Peter Clare, Nov 6, 2008.

  1. Peter Clare

    Peter Clare Very Senior Member

    As always I shall attend the service at The Air Forces Memorial, Runnymede. But this year I shall not be alone, my youngest grandaughter (10) has expressed a wish to be with me at this time to remember her Great Grandfather.. Makes me believe the younger generation will still care in years to come.

    Wondered what you all will be doing on this day. :poppy:

    Regards
    A very proud Grandad.
     
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  2. Owen

    Owen -- --- -.. MOD

    I haven't decided where to go yet.
    Next week, maybe we could all post photos of where we were.
     
  3. Drew5233

    Drew5233 #FuturePilot 1940 Obsessive

    I'm going to Sheffield as I have done every year except 2001 to parade. This will be my third time as a civilian in the crowd though.
     
  4. Paul Reed

    Paul Reed Ubique

    I shall share a few quiet thoughts at home before heading off to Ypres for 11 November.
     
  5. GPRegt

    GPRegt Senior Member

    Will be at my church, as usual.

    Steve W.
     
  6. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

    Good stuff on your granddaughter Peter, my first seemed to have 'got' it by about 5 (despite some brief but immense confusion about when the dead soldiers would turn up), the younger still looks a bit bemused by it all, but likes the Poppies & will hopefully manage a full 2 minutes of silence again this year .

    Probably Leicester for the main event & 'correct' level of ceremonial (though an uncommon suggestion of Loughborough has been mooted), and then the local park for the pleasantly shambolic parade of 'Sprog A' with his 'beavers' etc.
    Both very different but equally moving.
     
  7. Smudger Jnr

    Smudger Jnr Our Man in Berlin

    Looks like I am heading to St Georges Church in Charlottenburg.

    The RBL has organised the Salvation Army Band of which I believe 3 members of the band are British.

    I have an advance copy of the service, which should be really moving.

    Regards

    Tom
     
  8. Buteman

    Buteman 336/102 LAA Regiment (7 Lincolns), RA

    With the thought of Remembrance Sunday coming up, I decided to start carrying out research into the 22 WW1 and 11 WW2 names on my village memorial in order to place the information with our local history society.

    They always hold a really good ceremony every year and I will go there this time knowing a little something about each of the men who gave their lives for their country.
     
  9. James S

    James S Very Senior Member

    I shall probably go down to Irvinestown and put something on the graves of the "unknowns" and then go out to Castle Archdale to the memorial stone to the 240 Squadron crew which crashed on May 41.
     
  10. Tom Canning

    Tom Canning WW2 Veteran WW2 Veteran

    AS always - we have our remembrance day on Tuesday 11th November with a service in the packed hall of the local secondary school,with hyms sung by the local choir and accompanied by the school band,the surviving veterans are honoured by the crowd.

    The Police - Fire and Scouts contingents et al march with the Town band to the small cenotaph half a mile away - for a short service and laying of the wreaths.

    This is then followed by a free lunch at the Legion Hall, and is always well attended as the day is a National Holiday. The main service from Ottawa at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is relayed nationally.
    Cheers
     
  11. Ron Goldstein

    Ron Goldstein WW2 Veteran WW2 Veteran

    On Sunday the 9th of November my wife and I will, as we have done for the past sixty years, watch the TV coverage of the ceremony and the march past at the Cenotaph in Whitehall.

    The following Sunday I will be on parade myself with AJEX (Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen & Women) at the same spot.
     
  12. Ferahgo

    Ferahgo Senior Member

    im doing a mock geography exam :( annoying or what? so i will take two minutes out of that. an exam on your birthday AND the other most important day of your year! tch tch
     
  13. Owen

    Owen -- --- -.. MOD

    Tom,
    Canada has got the right idea hasn't it?
    as the day is a National Holiday.

    Oh wouldn't that be nice to have here?
     
  14. Drew5233

    Drew5233 #FuturePilot 1940 Obsessive

    It will come...............Eventually :D
     
  15. eejit

    eejit WW2 Veteran WW2 Veteran

    It is not impossible! Just don't leave it up to the "pols"!
    The only reason Canada "has the right idea" is because the Royal Canadian Legion took the initiative and ran with it.
    The National ceremony at the Cenotaph & Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Ottawa is organized and run by the Legion and is supported by all Veterans, Legion members or not.
    Where will I be on November 11?
    Every year since 1949 I have placed a wreath dedicated to the "Micks" at many memorials around the world and in those years that one of my guys has left us, his name has also been on it.
    The past ten years I have gotten into a pattern of rotating between my local Legion Cenotaph at Orleans, the village of Navan where I have strong military & civilian ties, and my home village of Cumberland and when I have had a name to put on the wreath - the National Cenotaph at Ottawa.
    This year as the "last man standing" I will place my wreath at my local Cumberland Village Cenotaph, knowing full well that many adults reading the inscription will say "What the H... does QUIS SEPARABIT mean?"
    ...... and I will go on my way knowing that their children are beginning to get the message!!!
     
  16. Tom Canning

    Tom Canning WW2 Veteran WW2 Veteran

    Owen - Drew and eejit -
    we are not just a bunch of tax payers over here if a thing is broke - we fix it - if it ain't broke we leave it alone - and we are not all that slow in telling our politicians that THEY work for us - not the other way around which is something the British appear to have forgotten -

    big fight on this week as somehow the guys building the new village for the upcoming Olympics have been 'awarded' $100 million because he has run into credit problems - wouldn't be surprised if he doesn't hand it back and told to get on with it and cut the BS...
    Cheers
     
  17. AndyBaldEagle

    AndyBaldEagle Very Senior Member

    All being well I will be in London with my eldest daughter (23) as near to the Cenotaph as we can get. It will be the first time I will be there as I normally watch it all on TV!

    And on the actual day, although working I will also be going to the same place and then to Trafalgar Sqare where apparently people will be alowed to place poppies in the fountains

    Andy
     
  18. Tom Canning

    Tom Canning WW2 Veteran WW2 Veteran

    As a follow up to the Canadaian remembrance services - here is something else that the Royal canadian Legion do each year - they select a bereaved Mother to represent all Mothers who have lost sons - fly them to Ottawa for the service, look after them generally - then fly them home again .

    Alberta woman named national Silver Cross mother
     
  19. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

  20. Tom Canning

    Tom Canning WW2 Veteran WW2 Veteran

    VP -
    as one poster said - the recipient of the honour, must be heartbroken on laying that wreath. As all Mother's are !

    Tom
     

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