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Mayfield Service of Remembrance Unites our Village

Remembrance Sunday

At one point we were not sure this service could take place with new rules for lockdown but with just days to go new regulations allowed us to have a socially distanced parade and outdoor service to remember those of our village who had made the ultimate sacrifice in two world wars and beyond.

The service was co-ordinated and organised, with almost military precision, by Church Warden, Charles Wimbush with a detailed minute by minute schedule that matched Government rules and guidelines whilst maintaining the dignity and solemnity expected of the occasion.

Charles tells us of the service:- ‘Over 65 followed Martin Soar our Vicar to the Memorial: about 30 from the parade, with flags, medals, wreaths and a confident solemnity together with Church goers from the Benefice. Decent weather without rain was a blessing.

The ‘outdoor’ idea was the only one possible in the circumstances, and probably the best anyway. It had all the traditional content: the bell, lovely singing from Diana, the Beatitudes, the classic words of Binyon, “They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. We will remember them”. .read by Phil Cook and Lorelai, and Edmond’s Kohima Epitaph, read by David Holt; the Last Post and Rouse, faultless, by Tessa Pike.

A very moving but also optimistic service that might ‘calm our fears, bring justice to all peoples and establish harmony among the nations’.

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