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Post by Administrator on Nov 10, 2013 4:47:03 GMT
'Moving and engaging' This year's Royal British Legion Festival of Remembrance also marked the 70th anniversaries of the Battle of the Atlantic and the Dambuster raids. LINK
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Post by Administrator on Nov 10, 2013 9:59:18 GMT
Remembrance Sunday to be marked at the Cenotaph:Emotional reunion The marchers will set off down Whitehall in London after the silence and the wreath laying ceremony. And services will take place across the UK at war memorials, as well as in other Commonwealth countries and at military bases abroad. It follows a Festival of Remembrance at the Royal Albert Hall in London on Saturday evening, which included a surprise reunion between 10-year-old Megan Adams, who was performing as part of the Poppy Girls group, and her father, serving soldier Lieutenant Commander Billy Adams. LINK
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Post by Administrator on Nov 10, 2013 10:05:09 GMT
"The Cenotaph is a key anchoring point of everything that the British people have stood for in the 20th century. While it was originally designed to be a temporary structure in wood and plaster for the 1919 peace celebration, there was such a sense of the need for something to grieve around after the bloodletting of the First World War that the monument was made permanent. It was unveiled in 1920 after massive public demand". LINK |
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