{"id":21524,"date":"2018-11-11T14:44:24","date_gmt":"2018-11-11T13:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=21524"},"modified":"2018-11-11T14:44:24","modified_gmt":"2018-11-11T13:44:24","slug":"abingon-on-thames-act-of-rembrance-11th-november-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=21524","title":{"rendered":"Abingon-on-Thames Act of Rembrance &#8211; 11th November 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18111103.jpg\" alt=\"Abingon Act of Rembrance 2018\" \/><br \/>\nMany Abingdon people gathered round the war memorial in the sunshine, and along High Street to await the remembrance day parade. Abingdon Town Band led the parade from a service at St Helen&#8217;s Church to the war memorial. The parade included soldiers from Dalton Barracks.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18111109.jpg\" alt=\"Abingon Act of Rembrance 2018\" \/><br \/>\nUniformed groups, and civic organisations brought wreaths of poppies to lay at the war memorial.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"259\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C3J8uF_VrD8?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"460\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nThen at 11 am, one hundred years after the guns of WW1 became silent, Steve Rich read the exhortation &#8220;<em>They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old&#8230; we will remember them<\/em>&#8220;. Alison Rich of Abingdon Town Band then played the last post (recording above). There followed a two minutes silence (to remember the fallen).<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18111110.jpg\" alt=\"Abingon Act of Rembrance 2018\" \/><br \/>\nAfter Alison Rich sounded the Reveille, the band played and the crowd sang &#8220;Oh God our Help in Ages Past&#8221; as wreaths were put beside the memorial.<\/p>\n<p>After the end of the ceremony, and after God save the Queen had been sung, civic dignitaries then went ahead to the County Hall to await the march by.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18111113.jpg\" alt=\"Abingon Act of Rembrance 2018\" \/><br \/>\nThe Deputy Lord-Lieutenant of Oxfordshire, representing the Queen, (Mrs Felicity Dick), the Mayor of Abingdon-on-Thames (Councillor Margaret Crick), the town&#8217;s poppy appeal organiser (Clare Oldfield), and a senior officer from Dalton Barracks took the salute. To their left is 100 year old Ena Mitchell, from the war widows association.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18111111b.jpg\" alt=\"Abingon Act of Rembrance 2018\" \/><br \/>\nThe march was led by Abingdon Town Band and soldiers from Dalton Barracks,<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18111111d.jpg\" alt=\"Abingon Act of Rembrance 2018\" \/><br \/>\nIt included veterans,<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18111112.jpg\" alt=\"Abingon Act of Rembrance 2018\" \/><br \/>\nand uniformed groups and went on and on and on. It is a wonder they all fitted round the war memorial.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18111116.jpg\" alt=\"Abingon Act of Rembrance 2018\" \/><br \/>\nBack at the war memorial people looked at the wreaths,<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18111119.jpg\" alt=\"Abingon Act of Rembrance 2018\" \/><br \/>\nand left their own tributes. <\/p>\n<p>The event was very well organised, and people along the High Street could hear what was going on through loud speakers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many Abingdon people gathered round the war memorial in the sunshine, and along High Street to await the remembrance day parade. Abingdon Town Band led the parade from a service at St Helen&#8217;s Church to the war memorial. The parade included soldiers from Dalton Barracks. Uniformed groups, and civic organisations brought wreaths of poppies to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-peace","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21524","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=21524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}