THE BLOXIDGE TALLYGRAPH

A Bloxwich Poppy (Picture: Stuart Williams)

7 November 2009

Tomorrow is Remembrance Sunday, and in Bloxwich the local branch of the Royal British Legion will be leading their traditional parade to remember fallen UK servicemen and women of all wars and conflicts, especially the Great War and the Second World War.

The parade will gather outside the Bulls Head pub in Park Road at 10.20am before proceeding up the High Street to the War Memorial on the corner of High Street and Elmore Green Road for a ceremony of Remembrance around 10.30am.

Members of the public are welcome to attend and to view the parade along the High Street.

The Bloxidge Tallygraph is supporting the event today with this news item and with the Pic of the Day (below). The Edditer will be attending the parade and ceremony tomorrow with his trusty Bloxidge-cam and the Tallygraph will publish a special Remembrance Album in the Centre Spread on Sunday evening.

Don't forget the poppy sellers may still be out there, so if you haven't purchased one or made a donation yet, please consider doing so.  For more national information, please click on the Poppy Appeal button towards the bottom of this page.

In Flanders Fields

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders Fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders Fields.

- John McCrae

LEST WE FORGET...

UPDATE 8 November 2009: Remembrance Sunday 2009 photo album now on Flickr via our reorganised Centre Spread. 

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