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Newbury Weekly News

REMEMBRANCE DAY

Around 30 people gathered for the Service of Remembrance

‘We remember all those we never knew’ The Remembrance service at Sandham Memorial Chapel Ref: 46-0121A Ref: 46-0121O

By JONATHAN ASHBY jonathan.ashby@newburynews.co.uk @jonathana_nwn

A SMALL, poignant Service of Remembrance was held at Sandham Memorial Chapel last Thursday to remember those who have fallen in war. Around 30 people gathered at the Burghclere chapel designed by Lionel Godfrey Pearson. The chapel was built to accommodate a series of paintings by the war artist Stanley Spencer who was a medical orderly and soldier on the Salonika front in the First World War. The service was led by Mark Christian, an army chaplain, who said in his speech: “Today on Remembrance we remember all sorts of things. “People who do good for society, not for their selfish ends. “We remember all those we never knew and we give value to their lives and their deaths. “And of course the wounds that those who survived bore to their dying day. “We remember the families of those who died and the ripples that go down the generations. “We must never forget it.”

Army chaplain Mark Christian leads the service

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David Innes lays a wreath on behalf the Soldiers of Oxfordshire museum

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Three wreaths were then laid – one by David Innes on behalf of the Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum, remembering the service and sacrifice of the 7th and 8th Battalions of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry; another on behalf of the Salonika Campaign Society by Darren Rolphe, whose great-grandfather SJT Charles

Carder was killed in the campaign; and a third wreath on behalf of the National Trust. The site is managed by the National Trust and manager Aeryn Townley said: “It was a wonderful service. It was a really good turnout and Mark did a great job with the service.”

A poignant service remembered the fallen

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More than 50 people joined a Remembrance service in Upper Basildon on Sunday. The service was led by Rosemary Sandbach, the licensed lay minister, and the Roll of Honour of the village’s war dead was read by Clive Williams. Wreaths were laid at the memorial outside St Stephen’s Church on behalf of The Shrievalty of the Royal County of Berkshire, the parish council, the fallen of Basildon and the church.

Blue skies over the service at Sandham Memorial Chapel

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