紀念星期日 2018

多佛鎮議會

追憶週日服務和遊行

多佛戰爭紀念館

星期日 11 十一月 2018

 

在上午11點在週日 11 十一月 2018, 100 年從停戰在簽約 1918, 多佛會記得所有誰給了他們生活在自己的國家服務的軍人和婦女. In this year of special thanksgiving for the end of the First World War, a mural commemorating the sacrifices made by those who served their country in time of war has been installed next to the War Memorial.

“They mingle not with their laughing comrades again;

They sit no more at familiar tables of home;

They have no lot in our labour of the day-time;

They sleep beyond England’s foam”.

By Laurence Binyon (1914)

標準巡遊, veterans and other organisations will assemble outside the former Marks & Spencer in Biggin Street at 10.30am and march to the War Memorial in front of Maison Dieu House where two minutes silence will be observed at 11.00am. 追悼會將由市長的名譽牧師進行, Reverend Dr John Walker and will be followed by the laying of wreaths. The parade will then march back through the town to the Market Square. 委員蘇珊·瓊斯, 多佛的虔誠權鎮鎮長將在聖施禮. 聖瑪麗教堂.

Service sheets will be available to members of the public at the service and is also available for download from the Town Council’s website 這裡.

Priory Road will be closed from the roundabout to the Ladywell traffic lights, from approximately 10.50am, while the service is in progress.

The Royal British Legion Dover White Cliffs Branch will be laying out the Legion’s Memorial Crosses in the Garden of Remembrance and receiving donations in support of the 2018 Poppy Appeal from Friday 26 十月.

Christine Walton – Joint Secretary of the Dover White Cliffs Branch of the Royal British Legion and Organiser of the Poppy Appeal said

The Dover Garden of Remembrance looks amazing. The British Legion Memorial Crosses will be in place from now until 2 weeks after Remembrance Sunday and the wreaths for a month. Anybody wishing to collect their wreath will be able to do so or they will be re-cycled.

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