09/11/2025
The annual Remembrance Day service is on again this year at the Samford Avenue of Honour, with the service starting at 10.30 am.
All we need is a good day that is not too hot or stormy. We have got a marquee booked that will provide some shade and shelter for attendees.
Remembrance Day (or Poppy Day or Armistice Day) is a day when Commonwealth countries remember those who have died in the line of duty. This important Memorial Day has been observed since the end of World War 1.
At 11am on 11 November 1918, the guns of the Western Front fell silent after more than four years of relentless warfare. This meant that allied forces had been successful in driving German invaders to defeat. The Germans called for an armistice (ceasefire) to negotiate a peace settlement and accepted the allied terms of unconditional surrender.
The Poppy is a familiar emblem of Remembrance Day because of the poem “In Flanders Field.” Ironically and symbolically, Poppies bloomed a brilliant blood red across some of the worst Battlefields of Flanders.
Everyone is most welcome to attend our service on Tuesday 11 November at the Avenue of Honour which can be accessed via the entry on Burton Lane near the corner of Mt Samson Road, or the entry at the Soccer Club end of the pathway.
