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Remembrance Sunday in Chandler’s Ford 2018

November 11, 2018 By Janet Williams 3 Comments

There was a rainbow in the morning and the rain stopped for the Remembrance parade and services.

At the Chandler’s Ford war memorial, a crowd of hundreds – from veterans to youth groups, families, and people of different ethnic groups – all gathered to pay their respects.

Hursley Road looked like this in 1918 (peace day celebration), and 1989.

Peace Day 1918 - Hursley Road in Chandler's Ford, and what it was like in 1989.
Peace Day 1918 – Hursley Road in Chandler’s Ford, and what it was like in 1989.

But today it looked like this:

Remembrance Sunday at Chandler's Ford War Memorial 2018: hundreds gathered to pay respects.
Remembrance Sunday at Chandler’s Ford War Memorial 2018: hundreds gathered to pay respects.

A two-minute silence was observed at 11am on the Centenary of the Armistice, marking 100 years since the end of World War One.

It was lovely to see many familiar faces again. 94-year-old War Veteran Frank Damerell from Chandler’s Ford, accompanied by his son Phil, laid a RAFA (Royal Air Forces Association) wreath during the annual Remembrance Sunday Service at the war memorial at St. Boniface Church in Chandler’s Ford.

War veteran Frank Damerell - Night Fighter Navigator. He wore the Légion d’honneur medal, the highest decoration in France.
War veteran Frank Damerell – Night Fighter Navigator. His medals include the Légion d’honneur medal, the highest decoration in France.

Here are some photos taken from this morning’s gathering in Chandler’s Ford.

Remembrance Sunday at Chandler's Ford War Memorial 2018: Eastleigh past mayor Des Scott with the vicar Dr Ian Bird
Remembrance Sunday at Chandler’s Ford War Memorial 2018: Eastleigh past mayor Des Scott with the vicar Dr Ian Bird
Beautiful blue skies ahead of the remembrance service in Chandler's Ford.
Beautiful blue skies ahead of the Remembrance Service in Chandler’s Ford.
The stones were beautifully painted by the Beavers
The stones were beautifully painted by the Beavers.
At the start of the memorial service outdoor.
At the start of the memorial service outdoor.
Small wooden crosses
Small wooden crosses
Chandler's Ford War Memorial
Chandler’s Ford War Memorial 2018
The programme of Remembrance Sunday
The programme of the service
The programme of the Remembrance Sunday service
The programme of the Remembrance Sunday service

WW2 RAF Navigator Frank Damerell Remembers His Beloved Mosquito

Meet 92-year-old War Veteran Frank Damerell

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Book Review: Margaret Doores’ Love’s Greatest Gift – Remembrance

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  1. Janet Williams says

    November 11, 2018 at 9:43 pm

    The emotional final scene of Blackadder Goes Forth still gets us every time… pic.twitter.com/lhRNxEM7MR

    — BBC Four (@BBCFOUR) November 11, 2018

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  2. Mike Sedgwick says

    November 12, 2018 at 1:47 pm

    Attended remembrance at Trinity College, Kandy. Their chapel is an architectural gem and the service very moving. About half of the 64 boys who fell in WWI were planters’ sons and the other half, Sri Lankans.

    The headmaster had arranged for the British Legion to ship out a box of poppies for the occasion.

    A friend told me an amusing story about her visit to the War graves Cemetery in Kandy. It accommodates the fallen from Colombo but there is one who fell in Trincomalee which has its own cemetery.

    ‘Why was his body brought down to Kandy?’ She asked the keeper.

    ‘The climate is better here.’ He replied, deadpan.

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  3. David Lamb says

    November 13, 2018 at 10:13 am

    A memorial service was held in my village in Normandy. Names of the fallen were read out – quite a lot for a small village – and the Mayor was obliged to read out a three page statement from President Macron about the benefits of the EU and alliance with Germany. I understand that this statement was sent to every Mayor in the country. This imposition of politics robbed the event of its dignity and Macron should know that outside of Paris not everyone supports his EU.

    My recollections of the Great War are from the Welsh mining village where I grew up. I remember men with white scarfs and red poppies coughing (because of gas) outside the Workingman’s club, Uncle Wilfred with a hole in his chest, Grandad survived shelling because he was buried under the horses, and we remembered Percy Brownhill, a teenager with Downs – in those days referred to as Mongolism with parents comforted by doctors who told them they won’t live very long! Percy, along with many lads with Downs, died quickly in battle. Fighting and firing squads for cowardice (now recognised as PTSD) continued after the armistice.

    It was inevitable that my first book would be about this war, and while it was well received it was used by Alan Bleasdale who wrote an appalling play about the war revealing his limitations as a playwright.

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