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I didn't hear about any official
commemorations for November 11th locally, so planned a trip of my own. My
route took me to several local war memorials, some of which I visited last
year in the Dodge. I started out at the Littletown, where they have a memorial
stone and the outline of a soldier in a planter nearby. Due to the strong
wind, the soldier had blown down, so I refitted it in the planter again. At
each memorial, I read the names of the fallen, but it was difficult here as
the wreath was fastened to the memorial stone with nylon line to stop it from
blowing away.
I planned to stop at Ludworth for 11am,
but was a little early to hang around, as the memorial was outside someone's
house. So I stopped a couple of times on the way there, to get some pictures
of the Jeep. I got to Ludworth around seven minutes to eleven and read through
the names. I held a two minutes silence at 11am before getting some pictures
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Several villages I passed through, had poppies and crosses fitted to lamp posts and benches. My next stop was at Sherburn Hill. The memorial was at the road side, so I stopped and chocked the Jeep and went to look. There were a lot of names on this memorial; fifty two from World War 1 and another fifteen from World War 2. In the first war, there were probably no more than two hundred houses in the village, so many of the people there would have lost family and friends. The Sherburn Village memorial was next
after Sherburn Hill. Forty one names from World War 1 and twenty from World
War 2. Sherburn Village was even smaller than Sherburn Hill during the first
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My last stop was at St Laurence's Church in Hallgarth. The memorial was in the church yard. Fifty names across both world wars. I took a couple of pictures of the Jeep outside the church yard before heading for home. The local school had a crotcheted poppy and cross scene attached to their fence. |
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Remembrance Sunday -
November 13th
I was back out in the Jeep on Sunday morning for Remembrance Sunday. A shorter trip out this time, taking Jessie back down to St Laurence's Church for the Remembrance service. There was a half hour service inside the church, after which we finished the service with the names of those lost and the two minutes silence at the memorial. This probably marks my last event of the year, though I still want to give everything a run out before the year is over. |
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