Cadets, Reservists and RFCA leaders joined veterans and other members of their communities on Remembrance Sunday and Armistice Day yesterday to honour the sacrifices of those who served.
Across Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk, Suffolk and the rest of the UK, people came together to observe two minutes’ silence commemorating members of the Armed Forces who lost their lives defending our country.
On 10 November—Remembrance Sunday—young people from the Army Cadets, Royal Air Force Air Cadets and Sea Cadets were on parade alongside veterans of armed conflict to show their solidarity and remember the fallen.
Those young people were back in lessons the following day, but at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month there were gatherings at war memorials around our region. Once again, our communities observed the traditional silent reflection that has been a feature of British life since the Armistice ending the First World War was signed.
As Laurence Binyon’s timeless poem For the Fallen has it, “At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them.”
Photo credits:
- Biggleswade Town Council
- Flitwick & Ampthill Sea Cadets and Royal Marines Cadets
- Norfolk ACF
- Cambs and Fens District Sea Cadets
- Essex Wing Air Cadets
- Cambridgeshire Army Cadet Force
- Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire Army Cadet Force
- 2417 (Newmarket) Sqn ATC
- 2470 Sudbury Air Cadets
- 2331 St Ives Squadron ATC
- 1895 – Cromer Squadron Air Training Corps
- 308 City of Colchester Squadron