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Stuart Williams Bloxidge Tallygraph 15 Nov 10
Remembrance Sunday is about just that – remembering.
Remembering the fallen in battle, and those killed on the home front of two world wars, and in too many other conflicts, right up to the present day.
Remembering those who served then, now and tomorrow. Remembering those whose lives were shattered, or ended, at home, in the field and in other nations as well. Remembering friends and relatives who are no longer with us. Remembering those who still need our help.
When I prepared to attend today’s Remembrance Sunday parade and service in Bloxwich, I went to a drawer and pulled out a medal. My late father’s General Service or ‘Queen’s Medal’, a shiny silver disc stamped with queen Elizabeth II on the obverse and a figure of ‘Winged Victory’ on the reverse, and hung from a purple and green ribbon surmounted by a clasp embossed with ‘Canal Zone’…
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Bloxidge Tallygraph 15 Nov 10
On Sunday hundreds of residents of Bloxwich, Blakenall Heath and Leamore gathered to observe the nation’s traditional act of remembrance and to see a parade to honour fallen UK servicemen and women of all wars and conflicts, especially the Great War and the Second World War.
Participants in the parade were gathered outside the former Bulls Head pub (sadly, recently destroyed by fire) in Park Road by 10.20am…
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CommonPeople 15 Nov 10
Hundreds of people gathered at Pelsall Cenotaph today for the annual Remembrance Day service.
Uniformed organisations joined churchgoers, service veterans and villagers after morning services at St Michael’s Church and Pelsall Methodist Church…
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BrownhillsBob 14 Nov 10
We should never, ever forget. It’s easy to say, and I repeat it every year, but war is an ongoing business. Nearly every year since WWII British servicemen and women have seen active combat in one part of the world or another, and at any time, war is raging somewhere on our planet.
The people of all nationalities who fight these wars – and pay the ultimate price – are not special. They are like you or I, they are doing their duty, be it out of choice, compulsion or conscription. They are all the children of somebody, they have brothers and sisters, wives or husbands, and often children of their own. In the main they are working people doing a job. They are ordinary people thrust into extraordinary situations…
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B'ham Post 11 Nov 10
Walsall Mayor & staff observe 2 minutes’ silence
Millions of Britons fell silent today to remember those who have died in war.
But in London the solemn moment was marred by a small group of protesters styling themselves Muslims Against Crusades, who burned a model of a poppy.
As the clock struck 11am, the nation paused to mark the anniversary of Armistice Day, when peace returned to Europe at the end of the First World War…
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B'ham Mail 6 Oct 10
An Iraq and Afghanistan war veteran is facing jail after pocketing almost £2,500 meant for an Armed Forces charity.
Debt-ridden soldier Ashley White from Tasker Street, Walsall, who spent nine years with the Royal Signal Corps, raised the cash at a Midland pub in aid of Help for Heroes…
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Express & Star 17 Jul 10
Just over a year after his death, more than 300 people turned out to an emotional fundraiser in memory of a Walsall soldier.
Corporal Jonathan Horne, known as Jay, was killed in an explosion while serving in the Helmand province of Afghanistan on July 10 last year, aged 27. Since then his mother Jane Whitehouse, 54, of Delves, Walsall, has been tirelessly raising money for a charity set up with other bereaved mothers called Afghan Heroes…
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B’ham Post 10 Feb 10
Territorial Army soldiers Lance Corporal Anthony Bradshaw, 28, and his wife Lance Corporal Claire Bradshaw, 24, have been invited to join a group of 20 couples to enjoy a complimentary five-course dinner with wine, along with an overnight stay, at the Village Hotel, in Tempus Drive, as thanks for the exceptional duty shown by our armed forces…
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Alison Dayani B’ham Mail 10 Feb 10
Rising numbers of military casualties from Afghanistan has caused a crisis at Selly Oak hospital which has been forced to transfer at least 200 local patients to other health units, a Government report has revealed…