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Remembrance Day 2023
November 10, 2023 @ 10:30 am - 11:30 am
Gather on the Abbey Green from 10:30am
10:47am start:
Battle Choral Society – “God shall wipe away all tears” by Karl Jenkins
Netherfield CoE School – “Private Peaceful” by Michael Morpurgo
Battle Town Council – “The Poppy, I am not a Badge of Honour” by Paul Hunter
Claverham Community College – “First Hand Account” by Jack Dorgan
Claverham Community College – “Dreamers” by Siegfried Sassoon
Battle Abbey School – “For the Fallen” by Laurence Binyon to include
“The Exhortation”
The Last Post is sounded
The Two Minute Silence is observed
Reveille is sounded
“The Kohima Epitaph” is recited
“When you go home, tell them of us and say,
For your tomorrow, we gave our today.”