Acts of Remembrance at Shrewsbury

With a.lockdown imminent, and the Sunday 8th ceremonies all cancelled, the Shrewsbury War Memorial group, who have restored the Crewe Street memorial and seen it as the focus for Remembrance events for the last several years, decided to go ahead on November 4th with a short Act of Remembrance.

In the presence of Provincial and Deputy Provincial Grand Masters, buglers, standard bearers, readers and a much reduced audience (which nevertheless included representatives from the families represented on the memorial), the wreaths were laid, the two minute silence enacted, and respect paid to those from our very local community who gave their lives.

It was sad that not everyone who may have wished to attend could do so - but we have posted a video of what took place in this News section. You may like to know that a wreath has also been laid at the War Memorial in the Quarry - without ceremony, but nevertheless with respect for the dead.

By coincidence, this final day before lockdown happened to be the anniversary of the death in the trenches of Oswestry and Shrewsbury’s Wilfred Owen, one of the great poets of this and any other war. Just an hour or so after the Shrewsbury wreath-layings, he was remembered at his memorial by Shrewsbury Abbey.