On REMEMBRANCE DAY there was a short service around the flagpole at 11am.
Remembrance Sunday Service 10 November 2024
It was a dull cloudy day but the weather did not stop people filling the Chapel to standing room only and singing enthusiastically in Remembrance. Many service veterans attended, young and not so young. Cadets from Biggin Hill Air Training Corps attended, and many new recruits who looked very smart in their school uniforms. Our Minister and Preacher was Reverend George Bailey, no stranger to the Chapel or St Mark's Parish Church in the village. Our organist was Eric Johnstone and Nigel Garrad, bugler played the Last Post. After the service there was a short service with the Kohima Epitaph and the Last Post was sounded again and wreaths were laid near the Gate Guardians, Veterans and a few friends met in the cafe afterwards. Unfortunately not everyone could go to the cafe as the site is closed for winter on Sundays, BUT services continue at 9.30 am untill 22nd December.
Click here if you would like to see the Order of Service. remembrance_service_2024_as_at_1000_31oct_24.pdf
Photos curtesy of Jane Oliver, Philip Bisset, D Evans, +GDB.
Remembrance painting is returned to the Chapel after six years in the wilderness