A time to reflect and remember
Our special Armistice Centenary event ran during remembrance week. It was made up of three parts. The Lost Voices Concert, The Remembrance Service and a World War 1 Flying Corps Exhibition.
All parts of the special event made the Armstice Day Centenary a time to reflect and remember.
The Lost Voices Choir Concert was on the 10th November and was a performance of songs from the trenches, along with readings written by soldiers during World War 1. All 100 seats allocated were taken.
Over 200 people attended the following mornings Remembrance Service which included the dedication of a commemoration rose bed planted with 6 roses called ‘Peace’ The rose bed has a plaque inscribed ARMISTICE DAY 100th Anniversary 1918 – 2018 ‘All gave some – Some gave all’. Large poppies were placed on the 64 Commonwealth and German war graves by local children.
A servicing RAF officer commented “As the member of RAF Scampton to be present and having the honour of laying a wreath, I was moved by the whole service and the dedication. It truly was an honour and I feel blessed and humbled to have been there with my family”.
For the rest of the week there was an exhibition of personal stories of those members of the Royal Flying Corps who served at Scampton Airfield during WW1 and who lost their lives whilst protecting the country from Zeppelin bombers. The small exhibition alongside the RAF chapel in church was free to enter and a collection box for the Armed Forces Covenant Fund raised £20.
All of the events were accompanied by ‘there but not there’ silhouettes representing nine pilots who lost their lives flying from either Scampton or North Carlton airfields during World War 1.
