Today as many in the UK will know was marked by acts of remembrance all across the nations people gathered st war memorial’s and held services to remember the fallen of all conflicts.
I indeed paraded twice today once as part of a station service held in the local town to the station, Bury St Edmunds, this was an early one at the armoury yo collect weapons at 08:30 then spent an hour and a half getting cold before finally marching into the old cobbled street on which the memorial is situated. Accompanied by contingents from three regiments the navy and all the cadet branches we showed our respect to the fallen.
My second was in the town I live in and was an afternoon parade which was a throwback to when there was an RAF station at Watton. This was because in the morning the station was split between four different locations then met at 14:00 to parade at the Watton memorial. Both parades had s good turnout which always makes me happy as the respect shown is heartwarming to a service man or woman.
In the little Watton parade they read the names of the fallen from the two world wars
A total of 47 names and as each was read one of the young cadets or scout and brownies would move to the centre of the parade to form a physical representation of the number of fallen. 30 from world war 1 and 17 world war 2. These may not seem vast numbers in gran scheme but as the town numbered a population of only about 500 at that time it was a large sum in comparison.