Heather and Peter at Otterborne

Remembrance Day is a day we rightly remember those who have died in war.

Heather and Peter attended the Remembrance Day Service in Otterborne, Hampshire. Heather’s friend Mary is a Parish Councillor there and her husband, Jim, was one if the four men who cleaned the war memorial. She found the service a moving experience.

Richard attended the Remembrance Day service in Redhill as the band he plays trumpet with, the New London Concert Band, was playing the music and they were short of trumpets. With so many services on Remembrance Day almost every amateur band in south London is pressed into service somewhere and trumpet players are in demand. The music they played included Elgar’s Nimrod and a piece composed in 1919 by Kenneth Alford to commemerate those who died in the war, “The Vanished Army”.