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Falkland Islands commemorates Remembrance Day on Sunday
Falkland Islands will be holding the annual Service of Remembrance on Sunday 10 November at Christ Church Cathedral. Governor Neil Haywood, Commander British Forces, Members of the Legislative Assembly, visiting and resident South Atlantic veterans, together with Senior Officers of the Armed Services will be attending the Service. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesWe will all, Rember .
Nov 09th, 2013 - 07:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Nov 09th, 2013 - 08:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.
Lest we forget!
“One by one Death challenged them. One by one they smiled in his grim visage, and refused to be dismayed. They had been lost; but they had found the path that led them home; and when at last they laid their lives at the feet of the Good Shepherd, what could they do but smile?”
Nov 09th, 2013 - 09:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few..
Nov 09th, 2013 - 09:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“I heard my country calling, away across the sea,
Nov 10th, 2013 - 08:22 am - Link - Report abuse 0Across the waste of waters she calls and calls to me.
Her sword is girded at her side, her helmet on her head,
And round her feet are lying the dying and the dead.
I hear the noise of battle, the thunder of her guns,
I haste to thee my mother, a son among thy sons.”
Mercopress- Wrong Memorial Photo! Your picture shows a service at the 1914 8th December Naval Battle memorial.
Nov 10th, 2013 - 10:44 am - Link - Report abuse 0Today- Remembrance Sunday- the Armed Forces and Veterans - after the service in Christ Church Cathedral - march east to the Cross of Sacrifice War Memorial where those who lost Falkland Islanders who their lives on active service in WW1 and WW2 are remembered.
A few metres away is the 1982 Memorial Wood where many folks, including the 1982 Veterans and Next of Kin thern move on to to pass a few peacefull moments looking at the plaques by each of the 255 Trees planted in memory of those who fell in 1982, and the Millenium Annexe where there are some 40 odd more trees and plaques in memory of all those servicemen and women who lost their lives (asccidents etc) whilst on duty in the Falklands June 14th 1982 to Jan 1st 2000 - the price of Freedom is never ending- and never will be forgotten by us here.
I rarely go to church, but on Remembrance Sunday it or the Cenotaph is the place to be.
Nov 10th, 2013 - 03:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0They sacrificed their today for our tomorrow.
I cannot add to the comments above, except to endorse them. The sacrifices made by some of my more immediate ancestors so that I, and those like me, could enjoy the freedom I (we) enjoy today are not only not forgotten, but remembered with much gratitude.
Nov 10th, 2013 - 04:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Sill the wrong Photo! Now we have a pic of the 1982 Liberation memorial and sercvie held every June 14th.
Nov 10th, 2013 - 08:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0MP- Cross of Sacrifice Memorial is by the Cemetery just East of old central Stanley.
Not to worry - was a good service and a good public turn out despite being a cold and windy morning- as soon as service over - out came the sun and wind died away and within a few minutes folks were in shirtsleeves in the 1982 Memorial Wood! such is our weather.
Norwegian Cruise ship in today and saw several of their passengers joining in as well.
It seems a lot of Falklanders must of gone and served in WWI.... What was the actual population of the Islands back in the early 1900s, or around the time the Panama canal was built??
Nov 11th, 2013 - 01:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@10 do your self a favour you disrespectful arsehole and shut the fuck up
Nov 11th, 2013 - 09:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@11 Are you sure you have had your pills today???
Nov 11th, 2013 - 10:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Hard heed, tak I boys idvice gait yersail ti fkuc.
Nov 12th, 2013 - 12:25 am - Link - Report abuse 0Noo.
What the comment in #10 actually aims at, is that the islands (or I assume to be the case) must have had a lot more population in those days simply because of its location in the British Empire and the whaling industry. After all they sent out a contingent of volunteers. After the Panama canal the place must have lost its importance and started out a decline that will continue to the 1990s
Nov 12th, 2013 - 12:43 am - Link - Report abuse 0I know that a lot of Argentine-British from Patagonia volunteered in WWI, and I don’t know if they simply listed in the islands back then.
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