VIDEO - ACT OF REMEMBRANCE

For those who have been unable to attend a Remembrance service this year, we have put together a video using many of the readings and other key moments from the Crewe Street ceremony recorded on Wednesday, 4th November, the day before the ‘lockdown’ began. By coincidence, this was the 102nd anniversary of the death in the trenches of Wilfred Owen, Shropshire’s war poet, who was remembered later that day by his memorial by Shrewsbury Abbey.

The socially distanced event outside Shrewsbury’s Masonic Hall, with just a limited representation of Freemasons, veterans, families and other local residents, has been distilled into a ten minute video which is available below.

Our thanks to the standard bearers, buglers, readers and all who combined to ensure that those commemorated on the Crewe Street memorial have certainly not been forgotten.

The Provincial Grand Master laid our wreath at Crewe Street: the other wreath (for the cancelled Quarry ceremony due to have taken place on Sunday 8th) was placed on the war memorial there by the Deputy Provincial Grand Master before the lockdown commenced.