Remembrance Day

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.

- For the Fallen by Laurence Binyon

 

One of our 400 poppies

Remembrance Day marks its usual 2 minute silence across the UK at 11:00am to remember those who fought in the armed services and died in the line of duty. It feels especially poignant in 2014 as we mark 100 years since the outbreak of World War One. The observation was started by George V on 7 November 1919 to recall the end of hostilities. 

The first two minute silence in London was reported in The Manchester Guardian on 12 November 1919:

"The first stroke of eleven produced a magical effect. The tram cars glided into stillness, motors ceased to cough and fume, and stopped dead, and the mighty-limbed dray horses hunched back upon their loads and stopped also, seeming to do it of their own volition. Someone took off his hat, and with a nervous hesitancy the rest of the men bowed their heads also. Here and there an old soldier could be detected slipping unconsciously into the posture of 'attention'. An elderly woman, not far away, wiped her eyes, and the man beside her looked white and stern. Everyone stood very still... The hush deepened. It had spread over the whole city and become so pronounced as to impress one with a sense of audibility. It was a silence which was almost pain... And the spirit of memory brooded over it all."

One of our fallen

The Together Trust is marking Remembrance Day by honouring the 33 men from this charity who fought and died in World War One. A poppy is to be placed for each one of these individual’s on the Royal British Legion’s Everyman Remembered site. No one should be forgotten.