Remembrance Sunday

[Ruth Roberts]

Remembrance Day -Sunday 11th November

11am - Village Hall open to pay your respects (as usual).

3pm - Act of Remembrance at Llanteg Hall with Rev'd Geach.

[Ruth Roberts]

Details of our War Memorial in the Village Hall are shown on the History page and the History Blog.

The three people recorded are:-

William Davies, Bevlin, 9th October 1917

(Private, 2nd Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers)



Hugh Slader Glanville, East Llanteg, 11th November 1917

(Private, 24th Battalion, Welsh Regiment)



James Edgar John Mason, Ruelwall, 14th June 1944

(Stoker 1st Class. HMLBO. Royal Navy)

[Ruth Roberts]

History of the Poppy Appeal

The first official Legion Poppy Day was held in Britain on 11 November 1921, inspired by the poem In Flanders' Fields written by John McCrae. Since then the Poppy Appeal has been a key annual event in the nation's calendar.

How the Poppy Appeal began
Some of the bloodiest fighting of World War One took place in the Flanders and Picardy regions of Belgium and Northern France. The poppy was the only thing which grew in the aftermath of the complete devastation. McCrae, a doctor serving there with the Canadian Armed Forces, deeply inspired and moved by what he saw, wrote these verses:



John McCrae, 1915
In Flanders' fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place: and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders' fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe;
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high,
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders' Fields.

On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918, the First World War ended. Civilians wanted to remember the people who had given their lives for peace and freedom. An American War Secretary, Moina Michael, inspired by John McCrae's poem, began selling poppies to friends to raise money for the ex-Service community. And so the tradition began.

[Ruth Roberts]

FOR THE FALLEN

With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children,
England mourns for her dead across the sea.
Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of her spirit,
Fallen in the cause of the free.

Solemn the drums thrill; Death august and royal
Sings sorrow up into immortal spheres,
There is music in the midst of desolation
And a glory that shines upon our tears.

They went with songs to the battle, they were young,
Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow.
They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted;
They fell with their faces to the foe.

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.

They mingle not with their laughing comrades again;
They sit no more at familiar tables of home;
They have no lot in our labour of the day-time;
They sleep beyond England's foam.

But where our desires are and our hopes profound,
Felt as a well-spring that is hidden from sight,
To the innermost heart of their own land they are known
As the stars are known to the Night;

As the stars that shall be bright when we are dust,
Moving in marches upon the heavenly plain;
As the stars that are starry in the time of our darkness,
To the end, to the end, they remain. (By Laurence Binyon)

[Ruth Roberts]

Two Minute Silence

On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918, the First World War ended. Since then, 11th November or Armistice Day, has been enshrined in the memories of the nation as a day to pause and remember those who have given their lives for the peace and freedom we enjoy today.


The importance of the Two Minute Silence
The Royal British Legion has always supported the traditional Remembrance Sunday services and the customary Two Minute Silence on that day. As the national custodian of Remembrance, the Legion also believes that when 11 November (Armistice Day) falls on days other than Sundays - on working days - Remembrance should be brought into the everyday life of the Nation on those days as well. The revival of support for observance of this demonstrates that, despite the passing of the years and the declining number of veterans, the nation still feels strongly about Remembrance.
Remembrance transcends all boundaries. The Legion seeks a small yet important individual and collective act, a rare moment when the Nation can stand together and reflect on the price of freedom. That price is still being paid. More than 12,000 British Servicemen and women have been killed or injured on active service since 1945.
''If we are to maintain our peace and freedom, we must always remember.''

[Ruth Roberts]

We submitted details of our War Memorial Tapestry to the Imperial War Museum last November - here's their reply received today:-

Dear Ruth,

Thank you for your email. The memorial tapestry is not on the database yet as we have rather a large backlog of memorials waiting to go on. In the meantime the record has been stored by location in the research files and is available to researchers and to staff when answering enquiries.

I will try and ensure that this memorial record is entered onto the database as soon as possible.

Thank you for your support of this Inventory project.

Yours Sincerely,
Laura

Laura Whalley
Project Assistant
UK National Inventory of War Memorials
Imperial War Museum
Lambeth Road
London SE1 6HZ

Tel: 020 7207 9860
Fax: 020 7207 9859

Website: http://www.ukniwm.org.uk

[Ruth Roberts]

Once again thanks to Tony and Margaret Brinsden of Norton Lodge who have sold poppies around the village.

They took over from Mrs M.Carter of Heatherland.

Previous to that poppies were sold my Miss Melfa Davies of Garness Mill who went around the village on her pushbike.

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November 11th.

Once again we opened the Hall from 10.30am.

There were 15 of us present.

John Lewis-Tunster did a short series of prayers before we stopped for the 11am silence.

Afterwards poppy crosses were put on our displays.

Thanks to all who attended.








The afternoon Act of Remembrance was conductd by Rev'd Geach - we were 10 in attendance.

Rebekah Chatwin placed the poppy cross and we had another two minute silence.

A collection was made for the Poppy Appeal.

[Ruth Roberts]

Margaret and Tony would like to thank the villagers of Llanteg for their generosity in the recent Poppy Appeal.

The sum of £307.30p was collected for this very worthy cause.

Regards
Tony