Remembrance Sunday Services |
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details of services in the borough
Men and women who have given their lives in the service of their country will be honoured across Wandsworth this Remembrance Sunday and on next week's Armistice Day. There will be three Remembrance Day services in the borough on Sunday, November 8. These will be at St Mary's Church, Putney Bridge, Holy Trinity Church, Ponsonby Road, Roehampton, and also at St Mary’s Church in Battersea Church Road,
An annual service of remembrance will be held at the front gardens of Wandsworth Town Hall . A second service will be held at the same time in Battersea Park. Both services will commence at 10.45am and there will be a two minutes' silence at 11am to mark the time on November 11, 1918, that a ceasefire came into effect after four years of bitter fighting. Attending the Battersea Park ceremony will be the Mayor as well as representatives of service organisations, other local dignitaries and private mourners, who will all lay wreaths. A bugler from the London Regiment will sound Last Post and Reveille and a piper from the regiment will play a Lament as the wreaths are laid. This service will be at the park's War Memorial, located at the junction of Central Avenue and East Carriage Drive The memorial was created by renowned war artist and sculptor Eric Kennington, who served as a private in the 13th London Regiment in Flanders and France before being wounded and sent home in June 1915. His stone memorial to the 24th Infantry Division was unveiled in Battersea Park in 1924. The town hall service will be in the garden fronting Wandsworth High Street where three stone memorial tablets commemorate the service and sacrifices made by local men and women who have served in the borough's volunteer armed forces since 1914. A tablet was first laid here in 1965 to honour the memory of men of the 13th Battalion of the East Surrey Regiment - the Wandsworth Pals battalion - who answered the Mayor of Wandsworth’s call to arms in 1915. Two others were added last year to honour those who have served in 16 locally-based territorial army units since the onset of the First World War. While the town hall ceremony is aimed chiefly at council staff, the public are also welcome to attend. A bugler from the Honourable Artillery Company will play Last Post and Reveille. November 6, 2009 |