Remembrance Sunday - what will you be doing

[Drago]

What will you be doing, if anything, to commemorate Remembrance Sunday? Mrs D is a Rainbows leader and their lot will be marching to the war memorial with a load of other local groups, where they'll lay their wreaths. I'll tog up in mymsuit, slap on some bryll creem and pin on me medals and bimble along to watch.

Please note - this thread is solely to ask what you'll be doing. Discussions about conflict, glorifying war, all that malarkey can go elsewhere.

 

[Hill Wimp]

Today is the day for remembrance and I stopped what I was doing and remembered and thanked them.

 

[Levo-Lon]

Well ive just spent an hour replacing 2 very rusted bolts on the toilet cistern grrr the new bolts are brass so hopefully i wont need to use a grinder in the house again!! Stinky..

I tend to do the silence on sunday with the Queen tho its Charles this year at the Cenotaph

 

[slowmotion]

I'll make one of my infrequent visits to the local church. My wife's grandfather and his brother were both killed by shell fire on the same day in 1916.

Here's something about what actually happened on November 11th 1918. 2738 were killed, and many more were wounded.

Last casualties[edit]

Gravestone of Henry N. Gunther in Baltimore
Many artillery units continued to fire on German targets to avoid having to haul away their spare ammunition. The Allies also wished to ensure that, should fighting restart, they would be in the most favourable position. Consequently, there were 10,944 casualties of which 2,738 men died on the last day of the war.[19]

An example of the determination of the Allies to maintain pressure until the last minute, but also to adhere strictly to the Armistice terms, was Battery 4 of the US Navy's long-range 14-inch railway guns firing its last shot at 10:57:30 am from the Verdun area, timed to land far behind the German front line just before the scheduled Armistice.[20]

Augustin Trébuchon was the last Frenchman to die when he was shot on his way to tell fellow soldiers, who were attempting an assault across the Meuse river, that hot soup would be served after the ceasefire. He was killed at 10:50 am. The last soldier from the UK to die, George Edwin Ellison of the 5th Royal Irish Lancers, was killed earlier that morning at around 9:30 am while scouting on the outskirts of Mons, Belgium. The final Canadian, and Commonwealth, soldier to die, Private George Lawrence Price, was shot and killed by a sniper while part of a force advancing into the town of Ville-sur-Haine just two minutes before the armistice to the north of Mons at 10:58 am, to be recognized as one of the last killed with a monument to his name. And finally, American Henry Gunther is generally recognized as the last soldier killed in action in World War I. He was killed 60 seconds before the armistice came into force while charging astonished German troops who were aware the Armistice was nearly upon them. He had been despondent over his recent reduction in rank and was apparently trying to redeem his reputation.[21][22]

 

[Smokin Joe]

Ignoring it.

 

[steveindenmark]

I will probably be riding my bike and remembering ex collegues I have lost in conflicts. But also ex collegues I have lost through the passage of time. Most of them younger than me. I think they would quite like the fact that the old man can still hack it.

 

[PK99]

cooking Rembrance Lunch for 60 elderly folks in the local church hall.

Tomato soup

Corned Beef (pukkah salt beef from Hensons) parsley and mustard sauce, carrots, new potatoes

Blackberry and Apple crumble

cheese and biscuits

coffee

£10 incl glass of wine.

circa £300 profit to British Legion.

 

[wheresthetorch]

Watching my son march with the Sea Cadets at the local war memorial. Always makes me proud.

 

[accountantpete]

My Dad usually marches past the Cenotaph with the Burma Star Association (just 6 last year) but can't make it due to illness and so we'll be watching it from home.

 

[Heltor Chasca]

Cycling to Wales and back 100 miles roughly. I hope.

I always honour the fallen but I struggle with the glorification of war. I’ve got to work that one out for myself. I lived for 6 years in a country in the middle of a civil war so perhaps my experiences are tainted by realism rather than classroom history lessons.

Recently I have been unhappy that the reverential symbol of the poppy seems to have been kidnapped by nationalist movements. Seemingly focussing on recent change and politricks in the UK rather than the big picture that the World Wars stood for.

I have much to surmise on my ride.

 

[I like Skol]

It always makes me fill up a bit when I do stop to observe the silence. Now I have kids it is even harder because explaining the significance of what the parades and silence represent really hits home when you think it would possibly be your own children going off to die in a far away field. I think it is still important that people remember what happened, what still happens and how war can mean individuals and families making that ultimate sacrifice.

This year I will be exercising some of the hard won freedoms of the modern world by riding my bike. I am not purposefully riding at the same time as the remembrance parades but it just happens to be the only free slot I have.

 

[Glenn]

I remembered my fallen colleagues from Nimrods XV230 & XV239 in war and peace

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Is it a rise in nationalism? but remembrance seems to be more noticeable this year, just come through the next village & they have large poppies fastened to the lamp posts, never seen that before, it also seems to have more prominence in the news & elsewhere.

 

[derrick]

Good to see so many people remembering them.

 

[Welsh wheels]

What will you be doing, if anything, to commemorate Remembrance Sunday? Mrs D is a Rainbows leader and their lot will be marching to the war memorial with a load of other local groups, where they'll lay their wreaths. I'll tog up in mymsuit, slap on some bryll creem and pin on me medals and bimble along to watch.

Please note - this thread is solely to ask what you'll be doing. Discussions about conflict, glorifying war, all that malarkey can go elsewhere.

I've brought a poppy and will wear it for a few days. The church that I go to will be holding a two minute silence tomorrow. I'm also thinking about relatives who have died in the wars and also people who I know who currently serve.