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Weʼve raised £100 to Attend The Great Pilgrimage to The Menin Gate
- Warsop, Mansfield, UK
- Funded on Wednesday, 1st August 2018
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This is a chance for Warsop to be represented at an event on the International stage. It is an opportunity to represent and honour everyone from Warsop who was affected by the Great War. Not just those who made the ultimate sacrifice, but also the men and women left behind.
A decade after the end of WW1, veterans and war widows visited the battlefields of the Somme and Ypres before marching to the Menin Gate in Ypres on 8 August 1928.
Exactly 90 years later, thousands of Legion members will recreate The 1928 Great Pilgrimage to visit the same battlefields and then, on 8 August 2018, carry their standards along the same route to the Menin Gate, to commemorate the last 100 days of WW1 and represent an entire generation that served while defending their country
Warsop, Meden Vale & District Branch has been requested to choose two representatives to attend the Pilgrimage, one as a Standard bearer and one as a wreath bearer. On Mon 6 th and Tues 7th August, the representatives will take part in a two-day programme of guided battlefield, cemetery and memorial visits in France and Belgium. On the Weds 8 th August the Pilgrimage will culminate with the main parade and march past to the Menin Gate for a commemorative service.
The march past will be observed by civic and military guests from the UK, Commonwealth and countries of Northern Europe. Each branch attending will deliver a wreath containing a Remembrance message, ideally written by their community e.g. the children of a local school, to the Menin Gate as part of the parade. These will be collected and subsequently built into a display within the Commonwealth War Graves Commission grounds that surround the memorial for later viewing by the general public.
The Last Post Association, the body founded in 1928 that began the Last Post Ceremony and is still responsible for the daily commemoration at the memorial, will lead the national commemorative service and wreath laying by VIPs at the Menin Gate on Weds 8 th August.
The commemorative event will be shown on large screens in the Great Square. Following the parade, all those who participated will join with the spectators in the Great Square to take part in an afternoon of comradeship and entertainment.
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Jim Fowler
Feb 14, 2018
Good luck with such a great cause!
£15.00
Gordon Bell (Senior!)
Feb 13, 2018
Happy to support this Kay in her efforts to fund GP90 for the Branch. Good luck! 😃😃
£50.00
Anonymous
Feb 13, 2018
£10.00
Martin Humphrey
Feb 6, 2018
Hope you can achieve your goal, it would be great to have Warsop represented at this special event
£25.00
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