{"id":15165,"date":"2015-11-08T14:18:05","date_gmt":"2015-11-08T13:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=15165"},"modified":"2015-11-08T14:18:05","modified_gmt":"2015-11-08T13:18:05","slug":"abingdon-on-thames-act-of-remembrance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=15165","title":{"rendered":"Abingdon-on-Thames Act of Remembrance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15110803.jpg\" alt=\"Act of Remembrance\" \/><br \/>\nIn early November we wear a red poppy in memory of those who lost their lives during wars, and this Sunday morning there was an act of remembrance around the country &#8211; joined by many people in Abingdon on Thames, who gathered round the war memorial, and along roads converging on the war memorial.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15110811.jpg\" alt=\"Act of Remembrance\" \/><br \/>\nAfter a prayer and the hymn &#8220;O God Our Help in Ages Past&#8221;, Abingdon Town Band sounded the last post; then flags were lowered, and at 11am people stood in silence, for two minutes, to remember the fallen.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15110813.jpg\" alt=\"Act of Remembrance\" \/><br \/>\nWreathes were laid in front of the war memorial by many organisation, and a member of the British Legion said the Kohima Prayer:<br \/>\n<em>&#8220;When you go home tell them of us and say<br \/>\nfor your tomorrow we gave our today&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Afterwards people gathered to look at the wreathes, and put small wooden crosses with inscriptions, and poppies in the turf around the memorial.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15110807.jpg\" alt=\"Act of Remembrance\" \/><br \/>\nAfter the ceremony, soldiers from Dalton Barracks, and uniformed organisations marched along the High Street between the crowds,<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15110812.jpg\" alt=\"Act of Remembrance\" \/><br \/>\nand their salute was taken by the Mayor of Abingdon-on-Thames, Cll Helen Pighills; the Deputy Lord Lieutenant, representing the Queen; and a Commanding Officer from Dalton Barracks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In early November we wear a red poppy in memory of those who lost their lives during wars, and this Sunday morning there was an act of remembrance around the country &#8211; joined by many people in Abingdon on Thames, who gathered round the war memorial, and along roads converging on the war memorial. After [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}