Remembrance Parades

Residents, veterans and local councillors will unite in silence to honour the fallen during a series of Remembrance Sunday events.

The day will be marked across the country on Sunday November 12 with parades and services being held across Wigan Borough.




WIGAN

The procession will leave the Town Hall in Library Street at 10.30am prompt and will proceed along Library Street, Rodney Street, King Street, Wallgate, King Street West and Crawford Street to the War Memorial in All Saints' Gardens. The two minutes silence will be observed at 11.00am preceded by the sounding of the 'Last Post' and ending with 'Reveille'. Following the sounding of 'Reveille' the Worshipful the Mayor of Wigan will lay a wreath on the War Memorial on behalf of the inhabitants of Wigan to be followed by representatives of the various organisations. The ceremony will be concluded with the National Anthem. The procession will then proceed into the Parish Church for the Service. There will be no return procession to the Town Hall at the conclusion of the service, but the Mayor will take the salute from the saluting base as the Service personnel parade by.

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Once again I'll be doing the official photography for the Wigan Parade and Cenotaph service.

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-OY- wrote:Once again I'll be doing the official photography for the Wigan Parade and Cenotaph service.

Come and say Hi

Hope you and others will be able to share your pics

In Flanders Fields
BY JOHN MCCRAE

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

By Rupert Brooke

If I should die, think only this of me:

That there’s some corner of a foreign field

That is for ever England. There shall be

In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;

A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,

Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam;

A body of England’s, breathing English air,

Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.

Always.

Wigan Council
@WiganCouncil
Communities across Wigan Borough came together earlier today to mark Remembrance Sunday.
Thank you to everyone who joined us to honour fallen heroes and support our Armed Forces personnel, past and present.

Lolly wrote:

Hope you and others will be able to share your pics

I tried

Most welcome they were too.