Grange remembers

On Sunday, 10^th November, a congregation of 200, including 46 young people, gathered in St Paul’s Church for the annual Civic Service of Remembrance.

The Vicar, David Wilmot, conducted the service with clergy from the other churches in the town taking part.

The official guests included Rob Cairns, the Deputy Lieutenant, and representatives from the District and Grange Town Councils.  The Standard of the Royal British Legion and the Union Flag led the procession of banners and colours of the various uniformed organisations and from the Primary School, followed by various members of the community with their poppy wreaths.

Particularly poignant moments in the service were the carrying up to the altar of the wooden cross which once stood above the battlefield grave of a soldier from Grange killed in the First World War, the choir from the Primary School singing ‘Let there be peace on earth’, and the reading out of the names of the 54 men from Grange killed in the First and the Second World Wars.

Following the service a short Act of Remembrance was held at the War Memorial in the Ornamental Gardens when Flookburgh Silver Band played the Last Post and Reveille, a schoolboy read the Kohima Epitaph, and the wreaths were laid.