Whilst there I visited the Memorial of the Missing at Thiepval.Īnd it was there, as I read the names inscribed on the memorial, that I saw my own name staring back at me – D. King Charles III led a ceremony and laid a. It felt like they were a long way from home. The UK has fallen silent on Remembrance Sunday as a two-minute silence was held at 11:00 GMT to honour servicemen and women who died in past conflicts. Open rolling countryside that has changed little over the past century. Remembrance Sunday is a national opportunity to remember the service and sacrifice of all those that have defended our freedoms and protected our way of. I walked the ground over which they had fought. The piercing shrill of the whistle signalling the advance and the order to go ‘over the top’. Our Remembrance events are just one of the ways we can help to ensure the sacrifices of those who served are never forgotten. I imagined the terror they must have experienced. The Royal British Legion is proud to be recognised as a national champion of Remembrance. I stood in the trenches they had defended. Driving to Aldershot for live Remembrance Day. Photograph: Labour Party/PAĭan Jarvis, a soldier until four years ago when he became MP for Barnsley Central and Shadow Justice Minister, writes of the eerie experience of seeing his own name on the Memorial of the Missing at Thiepval:Įarlier this year I travelled to the Somme in Northern France to pay my respects to those soldiers who came from Barnsley and lost their lives during the First World War. Updated at 09.01 EST 08.30 EST Michael Ball has just tweeted that he’s driving to Aldershot for a Remembrance Day Songs of Praise. Dan Jarvis, the former Army officer turned Labour MP.
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