Your Remembrance weekend plans

So with the remembrance weekend upon us, what are your plans...

Mine....

Leaving home today at 12, train down to London Euston, over to hotel in Kensington then off to the Albert Hall for tonight's festival of remembrance service.

Early start on Sunday. A quick visit to the field if remembrance at Westminister then into the Tower of London to see the poppy display and observe the silence before back to hotel to collect bags and get train back up north in time to plant my poppy crosses and lay my wreath at the local cenotaph before it gets dark

P

 

Mine are not quite so hectic Phil.

Meet up with other Chindit related families at the Chindit Memorial on the Victoria Embankment, more or less opposite the London Eye. We observe the silence at the Memorial after a very short ceremony. Fortunately, our location is so close to the Cenotaph that we can hear the music from that service too.

Always wonderful to be up town and walk amongst the veterans and service personnel in their uniforms.

Good luck with your itinerary mate.

 

I wanted to go to Dunkirk on Sunday at 11am with my Son and Andrea and then on to Menin Gate but couldn't get the Monday off work to my the trip viable so it was to be Leeds City centre. Annoyingly I've damaged my back at work and can hardly move so it's the TV tomorrow for me. Which leads me to say best wishes to those marching and parading and have a tot of something before hand to keep warm and for those not with us today.

Tomorrow I'll be remembering Sapper Luke Allsopp and the WW2 vet that passed on my watch yesterday. RIP

 

As always, I shall be attending the service at The Air Forces Memorial, Runnymede.

 

This old vet will be sat in his armchair, watching the Telly.Shame... but I do not have much choice. I will watch with interest to see how many NVA Vets parade this year, the youngest is 90

 

Originally intended to attend the main commemoration service at the Cenotaph this Sunday the 9th but chickened out at the last moment because of the long march back to the saluting base after the ceremony.
Intend to watch it, instead, on TV.

Will now conserve my energies for next Sunday's AJEX parade, which I have been attending, almost without fail, for the past 65 years.

I send my best regards to all attending the various services all over the world.

Lest we forget !

Ron

 

AS always - I shall be attending the main service at the local High School with the other ww2 Vet and three from the Korea war -

passing up the parade to wait in the local Legion hall for the other's to return for lunch, then trip to the Cemetery to lay

a wreath on my wife's grave - then Home as my son will be on his away to Berlin on business and daughter also to Hamburg and will
both meet to lay a wreath on their uncle's grave who was shot down after bombing Dusseldorf…others of the family will be at

Rauray for cousin who was killed before the Operation Epsom…... sad times this week…

Cheers

 

Just thinking out loud here - BUT - it would be a great idea if someone could organise a scheme to pick up Sapper and Sheila and take
them to the Cenotaph in London - would need a people mover though to carry his chair - he doesn't get too many opportunity's to get

out and about - and he is fairly harmless…

Cheers

 

Tomorrow, at 10.30am, I will be laying a Wreath at Lawford War Memorial (Essex) on behalf of the Manningtree & District Branch of the RBL, then immediately travelling down to Mistley War Memorial for 10.45am for the service there, and in the afternoon reading out the names of the 57 fallen men of Manningtree at 3 pm the same day, and doing the latter again on Tuesday 11th.

Wherever you are and whoever you are with tomorrow, my best wishes to you all

Andy

 

The dog and I will be at the local memorial (Harrogate) as usual to meet with friends and observe the act of remembrance. Thinking of my fathers unit and the sappers they left behind

 

If she who must be obeyed in the Deacon household allows (we are in the middle of decorating and she wants it finished).

I would like to do the Egremont service at 11 and then 30 mins down the road and do Cockermouth at 2.30.

If I can't do both I will go to Cockermouth for definitely.

 

Poppy collecting until 7 this evening, then tomorrow I am Parade Marshal at Hornchurch, 10.15 march off.

March back to the Legion after the Church service then a few pints (to ease the aching throat).

Standard bearer for a funeral Monday (unusually not a cremation but a burial in St Andrew's churchyard).

11am Tuesday at Hornchurch wargraves plot.

Friday another day at National Maritime Museum sorting out some drawings they have there.

 

I went to the Festival of Remembrance yesterday. This morning my husband is marching in a local parade. We have 6 members of our RBL Women's Section branch marching at the Cenotaph, which I shall record to watch later (as I do every year).

 

I attended the service at the Air Forces Memorial, as always at the start of the service, as a personal act of remembrance I placed a poppy at the foot of panel 80 of the memorial where my father is commemorated. At the end of the service it had disappeared, stolen? used elsewhere? I do not know, this is the first time this has happened in over 40 years.

A disgruntled

Peter

 

Went to Gloucester War Memorial for the Remembrance Day Service. A lot of people attended and it was difficult to see much. A beautiful morning though.

 

Went to Loddon Town remembrance day (we rcould not play outside it was raining), so the Band played inside the Church. It was well attended so nice to see so many young people there giving there support.
Nice Pics Rob.

Lotus7.

 

It has been a very busy last few days here in Berlin as our RBL Branch hosted a Reunion of the 62 Squadron RCT. Nostaligic for several as they were serving in Berlin when the Wall Fell 25 years ago today.

A great set of retired soldiers and we had a great time.

The Remembrance Service was preceeded by a march down the Service road of Heerstrasse from Boltz Platz to the Cemetery Gates, with all the veterans that wished to take part.

The Black Kilts Pipes and Drums band took the lead and it was nice to be able to take part.

Probably the biggest turnout in the years that I have been attending here in Berlin, swelled by the Reunion members and also the RMP and BRIXMIS contingents that also travelled from the UK.

Thanks to all for making the Remembrance Service so Special this year.

Photos taken by the Black Kilts photographer linked on our Facebook page.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/242364675799382/permalink/759272577441920/

Regards
Tom

 

Managed to do all 3 decorating,Egremont and Cockermouth.

 

Marched at the Cenotaph as part of the Flower Class Corvette Association contingent. Seemed like there were far more marching than usual - Ron was probably right in not attending as there was lots of bunching and marking time on the march back round to Horse Guards (Prince Andrew taking the salute).

The only damper on the day was waiting in the form-up on Whitehall (which is never overbearingly solemn, at least until the Queen arrives) was, before 11 am, an outbreak of relief in the contingent behind us - the HMS Andromeda Association - as the member of their group responsible for the wreath to be laid came rushingly up out of breath, very late, blaming closure of the Hindhead Tunnel. He was momentarily (and good humouredly) joshed by his shipmates. At this point a somewhat superior and pompous ex-Para from the opposite column walks across the gap and upbraids them "You're on parade! Conduct yourselves accordingly!" It is not as if his own fellows were exactly standing at attention either. Cue many stage whispers about the old service saw over what two things fall from the sky from the Andromedans.