Remembrance Day with a Difference

 

This year our regular Tuesday Breakfast meeting coincided with Remembrance Day, and our program Directors, Michele Muir and Clive Purt, decided to ask members to talk about family members who volunteered to serve in the First or Second World Wars.

 

President Margaret presided over the presentations which were given by Kenn Williams, Clive Purt, Chris Whelan, and Tony Haeusler.  They were preceded by a short audio presentation put together by Aaron Hoffman, which included the reading of the “Ode” followed by the sound of a lone bugler playing the Last Post, and then after one minutes silence, Reveille.*

 

Clive told us about recently visiting his uncle’s grave in the Santerno Valley War Cemetery, near Bologna in Italy.  He was impressed about how beautifully maintained the graves are by the Commonwealth War Graces Commission.

 

 

 

Tony told us about his great uncles Reg and Arthur Thorn, and he read a very moving and beautiful letter that Reg wrote to his mother before dying in the subsequent battle.