From the Editor of the Newsletter – November 2024
Welcome to the November issue which is full of interesting articles and events, including Remembrance Day on Monday 11th November. Don’t forget to wear your Poppy. The red poppy is a symbol of both Remembrance and hope for a peaceful future.
The Ode of Remembrance is the third and fourth stanza of ‘For the fallen’. While the opening stanza specifies England’s
dead, the later stanzas have been adopted across the world as a general poem of remembrance. The lines are spoken
at Remembrance Sunday services, at funerals for the armed forces and other memorial services.
They went with songs to the battle, they were young,
Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow.
They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted;
They fell with their faces to the foe.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
Lucy x
Newsletter Editor