Ilkeston - We Will Remember Them
w/e 13 November 2022
All of this week's pictures were taken with a Nikon D3300
Whether it's looking back to
two World Wars and many other recent conflicts or further back
still to the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, or even looking forward
to Advent and the Christmas season thinking of our loved ones
no longer with us, November is a month of remembrance.
With the rhyme "Remember, remember the fifth of November"
and Guy Fawkes celebrations still in mind, school children from
Chaucer School attended a remembrance service in Park Cemetery
to lay crosses at the War memorial there well before the Remembrance
weekend.
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Similarly children from Hallam Fields School visited the memorial
in the grounds of The Stute well before Armistice Day to join
members of the Royal British Legion (RBL) for another service.
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RBL representatives were present at all the services and held
another short one in Stanton Road Cemetery where, like Park Cemetery,
there are a number of Commonwealth War Graves.
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On Friday November 11th, Armistice Day, a small number of the
general public joined civic dignitaries, veterans and more RBL
representatives at the town's main war memorial to pay their
respects. After the service the RBL Standard Bearer told me he
would be on duty again on Sunday but at another location in Stanley
Village.
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Some of those attending posed at the Cenotaph after the service
and many of them were there again on Remembrance Sunday.
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And on Remembrance Sunday a service with civic dignitaries was
held in St Mary’s at 10am, followed by the service at the
Cenotaph around 10.45 am.
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After the St Mary's service, the civic party walked in procession
to assemble outside the library facing the Cenotaph.
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They were joined by thousands of other residents who stood on
all sides of the Market Place to join in the Remembrance Service
on a misty but unseasonably mild November morning. The weather
matched the mood of the sombre occasion.
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On the other side of the Cenotaph, facing the library, Standard
Bearers representing various groups lined up whilst their group
members lined the inside of the arena.
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After the service, all the groups marched out of the arena to
parade in front of the Mayoral Party, led of course by the Royal
British Legion.
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