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Post by ADMIN K on Nov 11, 2015 22:44:52 GMT
Crowds gather to pay tribute on Armistice Day:
CROWDS gathered to remember to those who have died in war at the Vale of Glamorgan's Armistice Day ceremony today (Wednesday, November 11).
The two minutes silence, held at the Merchant Seaman memorial on Holton Road, was preceded by a speech from Vale mayor Fred Johnson.
Mayor Johnson paid tribute to those who lost their lives in military service, asking that those in attendance pause to remember those who gave their lives in two world wars and more than 70 other wars world wide.
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Post by ADMIN K on Nov 11, 2015 22:51:57 GMT
I today attended the service in Barry (Dock) at the Merchant Navy memorial, in front of the Vale of Glamorgan County Counclil offices. Met up with old friends. Silence for two minutes: Respect. Coffee / Welsh cakes (Pice ar y maen), bara brith and a chat.
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Post by admin k on Nov 11, 2015 23:07:52 GMT
Barry Dock, Barry in the Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales a former Merchant Navy port / town, remembered her lost sons and daughters from all combined forces and dear to many those lost in the Merchant Navy. Few streets in Barry and many from the area suffered losses with heavy casualties that affected many at home.
“But for the Merchant Navy who bring us the food and munitions of war, Britain would be in a perilous state and ...the Army, Navy, and Air Force could not operate." Winston Churchill, April 1941.
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 the morning,
We WILL remember them.
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