Remembrance Sunday
on Blog From Beyond (Rwanda), 08/Nov/2009 17:53, 34 days ago
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Today wasRemembrance Sunday. The above picture is our war memorial inGuilsborough, opposite the church. Each year we have a parade which comes up the High Street for the church service, then back down through the village to theWard Arms, our local pub:Before the church service, Mum and Merrick (the Tower Captain for Guilsborough) were inside ringing:Ringing Plain Hunt:The bells from outside:So it was a really good day.My great grandfather, Thomas Alfred Sewell, was injured in the 1st World War and stayed on at Ypres (where he met and married my great grandma, who was a nurse). He remained as a grave digger with theWar Graves Commissionand helped foundPoelcapelle Cemetery.Sadly, he contracted a disease from the bodies and died aged 40. Because he wasn't in active military service they buried him in Ypres Town Cemetery. Around six years ago, the town of Ypres wanted the land back to bury local people so Nana, Aunty Jean, dad, myself and my partner at the time all went over to reinter him: three generations. Great grandma's hair was still sitting on top in a bun.
