'It is over a hundred years since hostilities were ended in the Great War and 75 years since the end of World War II. Since 1945 there has only been a handful of years when a British military person has not been killed on operations in the service of his or her country. All those who have died in service, have done so knowing the risks that they take to defend our Nation and its liberties.
Each year on the 11th November we take time at 11.00am to be silent and remember the fallen. Whilst people mainly associate Remembrance Day with the Armed Forces I always regard it as a day when the Nation pays tribute to all those in uniform who ensure our country’s values are maintained. In particular this year, me like many others, will remember the sacrifices that those working in the NHS have made on our behalf. On 11th November at 11.00am please take time to be silent for a couple of minutes and remember all those who have died in the service of their country and those currently serving whose duty it is to protect our Nation.
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Air Commodore Allan Vaughan
All Hallows
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The Great War 1914 – 1919
Lance Corporal J E Airey, Hampshire Regiment
Private H Anken, Hampshire Regiment
Corporal A H Backhouse, 2nd Life Guards
Private P C Bangs, Royal Army Medical Corps
Private E J Baverstock, (Infantry)
Lance Corporal F Boon South Wales Borderers,
Gunner W Bowles, Royal Field Artillery
Rifleman F C Bray, King's Royal Rifle Corps
Private J C Bray, Hampshire Regiment
Private C Brown, Devonshire Regiment
Private W Brown, Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Private F Carpenter, Hampshire Regiment
Private R J V Carpenter, 9th (Queen's Royal) Lancers
Able Seaman R L P Carpenter, Royal Navy
Rifleman A E Carter, Rifle Brigade
Private A J Carter, Hampshire Regiment
Private A W G Cook, Hampshire Regiment
Private E Cross, Wiltshire Regiment
Sub-Lieutenant CG Denning, Royal Navy
Captain J E N P Denning, Lincolnshire Regiment
Private G Dynes, Canadian Infantry ( Western Ontario Regiment)
Private J Franklin, Hampshire Regiment
Private A H Gates, Wiltshire Regiment
Private A Goodall, Hampshire Regiment
Corporal A Green, Wiltshire Regiment
Private H Hall, Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry
Rifleman P G Hanks, London Regiment (Queen Victoria's Rifles)
Private T I Holloway, Hampshire Regiment
Sapper W A Holloway, Royal Engineers
Private F Hutchence, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Private W G Hutchence, Middlesex Regiment
Battery Serjeant Major F L Hutchence MM, Royal Garrison Artillery
Private V R Jarvis, East Yorkshire Regiment
Private S Lawes, Wiltshire Regiment
Rifleman M G Looker, King's Royal Rifle Corps
Private C Mason, Hampshire Regiment
Private F Mason, Hampshire Regiment
Private H E Matthews, Hampshire Regiment
Private A Nightingale, Hampshire Regiment
Private F Pallister, North Staffordshire Regiment
Able Seaman Alf: Pare, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
Private G R Perry, Hampshire Regiment
Corporal A G Piper, Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
Captain O S Portal, Household Battalion
Sub-Lieutenant R S Portal, Royal Navy
Private F Poynter, Essex Regiment
Private F Reading, Devonshire Regiment
Private G Reading, Hampshire Regiment
Lance Corporal J D Rhodes Hampshire Regiment,
Private Alf. Rumbold, Hampshire Regiment
Private Art Rumbold, Hampshire Regiment
Driver E Rumbold, Army Service Corps
Lance Corporal A Ryan, Hampshire Regiment
Gunner A H C Sainsbury DCM, Royal Garrison Artillery
Rifleman T Sayer, King's Royal Rifle Corps
Private W Smith, Hampshire Regiment
Private H C Upton, Hampshire Regiment
Private L B Vincent, Canadian Infantry (Alberta Regiment)
Private A H Wakefield, Hampshire Regiment
Private F Wakefield, Hampshire Regiment
Corporal E Wheeler, Hampshire Regiment
Private T H Williams, Hampshire Regiment
Private B H Witts, Hampshire Regiment
Lance Corporal W A Witts, Royal Berkshire Regiment
The Second World War 1939-1945
SQMS H Baxter, R.A.O.C
Pte H J T Beal, Durham Light Infantry
Mne J Bell, Royal Marines
F/O F J Booth, Royal Airforce
Tpr C J Bowman, Reconnaissance Corps
A/B F G Coe, Cap Ribbon HMS Victory
Pte W E Dovey, Royal Hampshire Regiment
SPO T R Eastman, Royal Navy
Capt A E Ford, R.A.S.C.
STO II E D Gorsuch, Royal Navy
F/O J Hampton, Royal Airforce
L/Cpl G Hegarty, Royal Engineers
Cfn G R Herbert, R.E.M.E.
Gnr J W Hide, Royal Artillery
Sgt C A A Hill, Royal Airforce
Sgt H J Holder, Royal Artillery
Lt P B Horncastle, The Kings Regiment
L/Cpl P C Kebby, Royal Hampshire Regiment
Pte R F Nash, Royal Hampshire Regiment
Stg C M Oldham, Royal Artillery
Pte L F Peckham,
F/O D G Perry, Royal Airforce
Capt M J Pugh, Royal Artillery
Pte R W Sims, The Parachute Regiment
Sgt E J Sutton, Royal Hampshire Regiment
F/Lt S W Taylor, Royal Airforce
Pte E J Tolfrey, Devonshire Regiment
SSgt E Vaughan, Royal Artillery
Mne H Wakefield, Royal Marines
Pte H W Waters, Devonshire Regiment
STO II W E J White, Royal Navy
Pte W G Williams, Royal Hampshire Regiment
Pte P W Witts, R.A.M.C
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On Remembrance Sunday we look back and reflect on those many people who gave their lives in service of their country. It is right that we do that diligently. We will remember them. We also remember that the cost of war is so great, we must always look ahead and consider how peace must be strived for. As I heard the Roll of Honour being read at All Hallows this week, of so many people killed in service of their country; in many ways they reminded me of how poppies represent the lives of people ruined by war. There is no glorification, triumphalism or jingoism in the poppy, rather, in our remembering, we recognize the waste that war brings and the pain that unravels months if not years after the guns have gone silent.
That is why we mark their sacrifice for our freedoms, an inspiration to work for a future hope where the evils of violence must not be allowed to thrive. Wars are seldom ‘over by Christmas’, they only bring years of chaos and conflict over generations, and poppies remind us that the unacceptable loss of life should make war a last resort. In St. John’s Gospel Jesus says: This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.
Jesus words must inform our living today, a right way to live as human beings. True peace can only come from Christ and Jesus requires our active participation to love as he loved as well. This peace is more than an absence of war, but a responsibility to seek the flourishing of other human beings built on true love and peace. So we remember with thanks those who paid the ultimate price and sacrificed themselves for our relative peace today. May each one, like a poppy, be a symbol of hope as we look forward to build on the peace that they bought for us – We will remember them!
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Only the silence of a dying God.
A sonnet for Remembrance Day by Malcom guite
November pierces with its bleak remembrance
Of all the bitterness and waste of war.
Our silence tries but fails to make a semblance
Of that lost peace they thought worth fighting for.
Our silence seeths instead with wraiths and whispers,
And all the restless rumour of new wars,
The shells are singing as we sing our vespers,
No moment is unscarred, there is no pause,
In every instant bloodied innocence
Falls to the weary earth ,and whilst we stand
Quiescence ends again in acquiescence,
And Abel’s blood still cries in every land
One silence only might redeem that blood
​Only the silence of a dying God.
Reverend David Roche
Priest In Charge
