War dead will be remembered as communities pay their respects (From Wharfedale Observer)

War dead will be remembered as communities pay their respects

9:39am Thursday 5th November 2009

• Print
• Email
• Share
• Comments(0)

Civic dignitaries, ex-servicemen and other members of the community will gather together this Sunday to pay their respects to those who made the ultimate sacrifice in times of war.

Churches and war memorials throughout the area will mark Remembrance Sunday with services, and the laying of wreaths at war memorials.

Remembrance Sunday is held on the second Sunday in November, close to November 11, which marks the anniversary of the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front in the First World War.

But the day has come to mark the remembrance of those lost, both members of the armed forces and civilians, in the Second World War and conflicts right up to the present day.

Commemorations will take place in the area to servicemen who have died in more recent conflicts.

The name of Corporal Matthew Cornish, killed in Iraq in 2006, was recently added at the cenotaph in Pool-in-Wharfedale, where his parents are expected to pay their respects.

Corporal Cornish died after being wounded in a mortar attack on his base in Basra in August 2006. He served with the 1st Battalion The Light Infantry.

A former pupil of Prince Henry’s Grammar School in Otley, Cpl Cornish was 29 when he died. He was married with two children.

The village’s remembrance service will take place at Pool Methodist Church at 10am, and villagers will gather at the War Memorial at 10.50am, when representatives of the community and children will lay wreaths to those who fell in conflict.

Ex-servicemen from Ilkley, former members of the Baker Troop 45 Commando, will take part in this year’s act of remembrance in Ilkley and Bingley. The Baker Troop pioneered the use of helicopters for assault on active service when they landed in Port Said in the Suez conflict in 1956, suffering heavy losses.

The Lord Mayor of Bradford, Councillor John Godward, will lay a wreath on behalf of the city of Bradford at Ilkley’s Remembrance ceremony.

The parade will assemble in the South Hawksworth Street car park at 2.25pm on Sunday, heading out on to Brook Street at 2.35pm, and along The Grove, to arrive at the Memorial Gardens at 3pm. A Remembrance Service and wreath laying ceremony will take place in the Memorial Gardens.

The Deputy Lord Mayor of Leeds, Councillor Andrew Barker, will be among the civic dignitaries at Otley’s Remembrance Parade and Service.

The parade will form up at the bottom of Station Road at 2pm, setting off at 2.15pm to walk to Our Lady and All Saints Catholic Church, Bridge Street, for a service at 2.30pm.

The parade will reform after the service and walk through Otley, passing along Kirkgate, to the Memorial Garden off Bondgate and Crossgate for the wreath laying ceremony.

A united service for members of Fewston Church and Timble Methodist Church will take place at Fewston Church at 3pm.

In Bramhope, the parade will head from the Robert Craven Memorial Hall to the Memorial Garden on Breary Lane for 10.45pm, for the service and wreath laying.

A Remembrance Service will take place at Yeadon Methodist Church from 10.30am, and the poppy wreaths will be laid in front of Yeadon Town Hall after the service.

In Guiseley, St Oswald’s Church will host the Remembrance Service, before those attending walk to the town cross to lay their wreaths at 11am.

Menston’s Remembrance Service will take place at St John’s Church at 10.30am, and there will be a parade from Kirklands Community Centre.

Addingham’s Service of Remembrance will be held at St Peter’s Church, Church Street, at 10.30am. The parade will leave St Peter’s Church to walk to the War Memorial on Main Street at 11.45pm, and the wreath-laying ceremony will take place at noon.

In Burley-in-Wharfedale, the service will take place at St Mary’s Parish Church at 10.45am. The service will be followed by the laying of wreaths at the War Memorial at the corner of Station Road and Main Street.

Horsforth’s Remembrance Sunday will begin with a parade from Broadgate Lane at 10am, visiting the small cenotaph on Stanhope Drive, before heading on to the main cenotaph in front of Hall Park for the ceremony at 11am.

• Print
• Email
• Share
• Comments(0)