Festival of Remembrance - Royal Albert Hall

[Bry Nylon]

Flawless, incredibly moving and humbling as always.

Huge respect and thanks to @Muhammed 'im hard' Bruce Lee, [MENTION=31796]alfredmizen[/MENTION], [MENTION=338]smudge[/MENTION] and all other NSC members who have served - plus all their comrades in arms.

I will never forget and I will make sure my children always remember too.

 

[BensGrandad]

It is a very moving festival and my 7 yr old granddaughter watched it asking questions about the war. The only downside was the awful rendition of Abide With Me but we can overcome that for what the festival means. Long may they be remembered.

 

[ofco8]

Flawless, incredibly moving and humbling as always.

Huge respect and thanks to @Muhammed 'im hard' Bruce Lee, [MENTION=31796]alfredmizen[/MENTION], [MENTION=338]smudge[/MENTION] and all other NSC members who have served - plus all their comrades in arms.

I will never forget and I will make sure my children always remember too.

Well said.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Flawless, incredibly moving and humbling as always.

Huge respect and thanks to @Muhammed 'im hard' Bruce Lee, [MENTION=31796]alfredmizen[/MENTION], [MENTION=338]smudge[/MENTION] and all other NSC members who have served - plus all their comrades in arms.

I will never forget and I will make sure my children always remember too.

Thank you. I am at the Cenotaph tomorrow.

 

[Bry Nylon]

I am at the Cenotaph tomorrow.

Thank you.

 

[GT49er]

Flawless, incredibly moving and humbling as always.

Huge respect and thanks to @Muhammed 'im hard' Bruce Lee, [MENTION=31796]alfredmizen[/MENTION], [MENTION=338]smudge[/MENTION] and all other NSC members who have served - plus all their comrades in arms.

I will never forget and I will make sure my children always remember too.

Damn - I missed it. Probably the first time ever (since I've had a tele in my own house/flat anyway - that would be about 1978!). Sorry Dad. I know when those poppies float down there's one for every serviceman who was killed, and like you did, I always look out for your brother's too.

 

[BensGrandad]

Did it not make your hair stand on end when they sang I Vow to the my Country

 

[Bry Nylon]

Did it not make your hair stand on end when they sang I Vow to the my Country

Absolutely.

Both my parents were in the Armed forces and it is my mum's favourite hymn.

 

[dazzer6666]

Flawless, incredibly moving and humbling as always.

Huge respect and thanks to @Muhammed 'im hard' Bruce Lee, [MENTION=31796]alfredmizen[/MENTION], [MENTION=338]smudge[/MENTION] and all other NSC members who have served - plus all their comrades in arms.

I will never forget and I will make sure my children always remember too.

Missed it tonight as only just got home but will catch up on it. My grandfather's proudest moment was carrying the RBL Standard at the Festival after doing it for 40 years for his own branch of the RBL (he passed a few years ago now). My grandmother also sold poppies for 45 years. I have all his medals and war memorabilia, including the handwritten diary he kept whilst a POW in WWII for 3 years after being captured in the Aegean. Never forget.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Missed it tonight as only just got home but will catch up on it. My grandfather's proudest moment was carrying the RBL Standard at the Festival after doing it for 40 years for his own branch of the RBL (he passed a few years ago now). My grandmother also sold poppies for 45 years. I have all his medals and war memorabilia, including the handwritten diary he kept whilst a POW in WWII for 3 years after being captured in the Aegean. Never forget.

My Dad served 33 years in the Royal Navy, and then joined the Royal British Legion, was a standard bearer for a while, sold poppies every year and became a Life Member. He used to love going up to the Albert Hall every year for the Festival of Remembrance.

 

[Bry Nylon]

My grandfather's proudest moment was carrying the RBL Standard at the Festival after doing it for 40 years for his own branch of the RBL (he passed a few years ago now). My grandmother also sold poppies for 45 years. I have all his medals and war memorabilia, including the handwritten diary he kept whilst a POW in WWII for 3 years after being captured in the Aegean. Never forget.

Wow - that is something to be hugely proud of. I have my grandfather's medals from WWII which my children, 7 and 5, will wear in his memory and in his honour at the war memorial at church tomorrow.

 

[dazzer6666]

Wow - that is something to be hugely proud of. I have my grandfather's medals from WWII which my children, 7 and 5, will wear on his behalf and in his honour at the war memorial at church tomorrow.

That's brilliant. Thanks, I am. My grandmother (now in a care home but fit as a fiddle and 94) was very serious when she 'entrusted' all his war stuff to me (I'm the eldest grandchild). My lad (now 18) also got a stern lecture from her about how it'll then pass to him....and so on.

Grandad wasn't anything other than a 'good honest Tommy'. Signed up, leaving her and a small child at home, returned home at the end of the war. Never really spoke about his time at war or in the POW camps in Austria and Germany, but devoted much of his life to the RBL.

 

[smudge]

Flawless, incredibly moving and humbling as always.

Huge respect and thanks to @Muhammed 'im hard' Bruce Lee, [MENTION=31796]alfredmizen[/MENTION], [MENTION=338]smudge[/MENTION] and all other NSC members who have served - plus all their comrades in arms.

I will never forget and I will make sure my children always remember too.

Top man. Missing it again this year, but a fair few former colleagues of mine will be marching past the Cenotaph this morning.

 

[pastafarian]

Wow - that is something to be hugely proud of. I have my grandfather's medals from WWII which my children, 7 and 5, will wear in his memory and in his honour at the war memorial at church tomorrow.

i feel really quite guilty now and a little ashamed

few years back i caught a burglar in the house, after that some prize family possession were taken by me and put in the attic including the family medals from Spion Kop through to MBE for D-Day services.....i could not stand the thought of them ever being stolen. They now sit in a metal box doing nothing.

i should not have let this tosser defeat me.....time to bring them back out and at least show them to the youngsters and what they mean

 

[lawros left foot]

Nothing annoys me more, than when you see people selling relatives medals etc on programmes like Cash in the attic etc.
Don't they realise they are selling a large part of their family history.

 

[The Birdman]

I'll be at the Local war Memorial today in Haywards Heath for the remembrance parade.
My Parents were both in the armed forces my mother was in the Royal signals. My uncle ecscaped Dunkirk after being pulled from a burning building by a German in the fighting I wish when I was younger I had got more details from them but they did not want to talk about these times. Thank you to all those brave men and women in our armed services merchant Navy and firemen etc
.

 

[pastafarian]

Nothing annoys me more, than when you see people selling relatives medals etc on programmes like Cash in the attic etc.
Don't they realise they are selling a large part of their family history.

its frustrating seeing this when sometimes the financial gains are minimal and the loss of family history is priceless.....you could sell your HD TV for better returns
There is an antique dealer in Worthing i know quite well,is on TV quite a bit recently and he hates it when people ask him to sell medals,he will ask them to consider getting rid of something else. He has some medals for sale that have been acquired through people dying and yet he researches all of them as prize possessions and will tell you what this medal belonging to a complete stranger was for and who this person was, in as far as much he can find out.
His shop front on nov 11th is crammed with war memorabilia that he has acquired over the years,its very impressive and not one single item is up for sale

 

[pastafarian]

My uncle ecscaped Dunkirk after being pulled from a burning building by a German in the fighting I wish when I was younger I had got more details from them but they did not want to talk about these times.
.

is that all you know of the incident?
so many questions

 

[Hastings gull]

]I'll be at the Local war Memorial today in Haywards Heath for the remembrance parade.[/B]
My Parents were both in the armed forces my mother was in the Royal signals. My uncle ecscaped Dunkirk after being pulled from a burning building by a German in the fighting I wish when I was younger I had got more details from them but they did not want to talk about these times. Thank you to all those brave men and women in our armed services merchant Navy and firemen etc
.

Likewise in Hastings. Always a moving occasion, and the very least we can do. Granddaughter is now starting to learn in school about the sacrifices made, and will be coming along as well.

 

[Hastings gull]

Nothing annoys me more, than when you see people selling relatives medals etc on programmes like Cash in the attic etc.
Don't they realise they are selling a large part of their family history.

I suppose we don't know what their motives are, or how skint they may or may not be, but equally, I find it depressing, particularly if they are in reality showing no respect, and using a relative's passing as an ideal opportunity to cynically make some cash.