Remembrance Sunday: The Cenotaph

[whitelion]

A wonderfully moving tribute to those who served and died.

Respect to all.

 

[BensGrandad]

It was good to see a Chelsea Pensioner who has the VC being pushed in his wheelchair by a serving soldier who also has the VC,I. am sure that is what the commentator said.

 

[jonny.rainbow]

Did Corbyn how is head for long enough and at a desirable degree this year?

 

[Hastings gull]

Did Corbyn how is head for long enough and at a desirable degree this year?

Sad but entirely predictable how someone can turn such an occasion .

 

[Eeyore]

 

[The Oldman]

I went to the Seaford War Memorial along with hundreds of other folk for the 2 minute silence and remembrance service. At the end the Silver Band played Sussex By The Sea and it sounded so good played by a live band.

 

[swindonseagull]

Attended the Swindon service this morning, hundreds of people there and nice to see guys from the RAF I have not seen for years....even had a young boy asking what my medals were for, very humbling.

 

[Hastings gull]

I went to the Seaford War Memorial along with hundreds of other folk for the 2 minute silence and remembrance service. At the end the Silver Band played Sussex By The Sea and it sounded so good played by a live band.

Yes, at the end of the ceremony here in Hastings, we had the same, so, to the embarrassment of the others, I started singing "we're going up and we will win the cup." Touching ceremony to see how much it meant to so many folk and great to see so many young people involved with cadets etc.

 

[dazzer6666]

It was good to see a Chelsea Pensioner who has the VC being pushed in his wheelchair by a serving soldier who also has the VC,I. am sure that is what the commentator said.

Yes, they were interviewed together on BBC News yesterday. Both incredibly humble.

 

[jakarta]

Very happy to say that St.Mary's Storrington Service this afternoon was standing room only, sad in a way to see several young 'veterans' wearing medals, obviously Boys who have served in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Kohima Epitaph was given by a Korean War veteran - over the last 15 years of attending the Service at Storrington I have seen us lose almost all of our WW2 contingent including my Father In Law (Signaller with the Guards Armoured Division 1944-45) but it still has resonance:

When You Go Home, Tell Them of Us and Say For Your Tomorrow, We gave Our Today...

 

[alfredmizen]

Very happy to say that St.Mary's Storrington Service this afternoon was standing room only, sad in a way to see several young 'veterans' wearing medals, obviously Boys who have served in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Kohima Epitaph was given by a Korean War veteran - over the last 15 years of attending the Service at Storrington I have seen us lose almost all of our WW2 contingent including my Father In Law (Signaller with the Guards Armoured Division 1944-45) but it still has resonance:

When You Go Home, Tell Them of Us and Say For Your Tomorrow, We gave Our Today...

Hats off to your father In law for his service in 6th guards armoured , what regiment was he In ?

 

[Mo Gosfield]

It was good to see a Chelsea Pensioner who has the VC being pushed in his wheelchair by a serving soldier who also has the VC,I. am sure that is what the commentator said.

Johnson Beharry, the most recent recipient of the VC. His is a remarkable story of selfless heroism. Twice he risked his life to rescue colleagues and twice he decided in a mere moment of thought, that one life sacrificed ( i.e his own ) was worth it to save a number of men. He suffered terrible, life-threatening injuries but his will pulled him through.
Two men, ( I believe the other was Bill Speake, a Korean War veteran ) seperated by age but unified by acts of bravery that could never be planned. Two men who gave no thought to personal safety, only to the welfare of colleagues.
On a moving day, this was the moment that I found the most moving.

 

[jakarta]

Hats off to your father In law for his service in 6th guards armoured , what regiment was he In ?

Really sorry to say I don't know exactly who he was attached to.

Like many of his Generation he really didn't want to talk about it and I never pushed it.

I know he landed at Normandy on D-Day Plus 2 and went through Europe all the way to Berlin and stayed there to early 1946

 

[BensGrandad]

The people I dislike are those like a chap who was a customer of ours in Guildford who was chairman or held a senior position in the local legion and wore loads of medals and continually spoke of his exploits in the war but when he died it came out that he was 14 when the war finished so would have been about 8 when it started so was never in the services.

 

[AmexRuislip]

Attended the Swindon service this morning, hundreds of people there and nice to see guys from the RAF I have not seen for years....even had a young boy asking what my medals were for, very humbling.

Gave Eric a lift home tonight after drinking on the Tattershall Castle, attending the veterans at the Cenotaph

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Johnson Beharry, the most recent recipient of the VC. His is a remarkable story of selfless heroism. Twice he risked his life to rescue colleagues and twice he decided in a mere moment of thought, that one life sacrificed ( i.e his own ) was worth it to save a number of men. He suffered terrible, life-threatening injuries but his will pulled him through.
Two men, ( I believe the other was Bill Speake, a Korean War veteran ) seperated by age but unified by acts of bravery that could never be planned. Two men who gave no thought to personal safety, only to the welfare of colleagues.
On a moving day, this was the moment that I found the most moving.

When he had pushed the Chelsea Pensioner past the Cenotaph in the wheelchair, he made his way back amongst the veterans join his colleagues. Every veteran waiting, applauded him as he passed by.

 

[Crennis]

Johnson Beharry, the most recent recipient of the VC.

Fourth most recent, two Paras and a Grenadier Guardsman have received them since; two sadly posthumously.

 

[dejavuatbtn]

It's easy to get ambivalent about all this and it wasn't until I started doing family research on Ancestry that I discovered that my great grandfather died at Passendalle in October 1917. Until then, noone remaining in the family knew anything about him. Researching his life and death 100 years on has been really moving and next year I am hoping to visit his grave at Poperinge for the anniversary. Never forget.

 

[ManOfSussex]

I have a Great-Uncle who died in Normandy in 1944. As I wrote in the book at his cemetery down there the last time I visited it, I never knew him, but I'll never forget him.

 

[Mo Gosfield]

Fourth most recent, two Paras and a Grenadier Guardsman have received them since; two sadly posthumously.

I stand corrected.