Remembrance Weekend 2017

Branch President, Mr Peter Bustard lays our branch wreath on Armistice Day

Tracy Brabin, MP Batley & Spen & Cllr Viv Kendrick

 Cllr David Sheard, Leader of Kirklees Council

Manzoor Ahmad, President Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association Spen Valley

Local Guides & Brownies laying their wreaths

Rev Karen Young, Vicar of Heckmondwike

Remembrance 2016

Branch Standard Bearer Shawn Hartley pictured with Rosemary Hartley Welfare Officer & Heckmondwike & Spen Scouts & Guides

Scouts and Guides Flag Bearers

Local Community of Heckmondwike gathers around War Memorial,Green Park

Spen Valley Army Cadets

Wreaths laid by dignateries & Organisations

 Branch President Peter Bustard (left) pictured with local WW2 Veteran ex Royal Marine Arnold Walker

 Branch Chairman's Visit to Somme & Flanders

In March our Branch Chairman, Mr Wayne McDonald, visited the battlefields of France & Flanders and paid respects to some of the men of Heckmondwike who lost their lives in WW1 and are buried or commemorated on the many memorials across those areas

 Unknown West Yorkshire Regiment Soldier on the Somme

 Memorial to the Missing Arras,France

 49th (West Riding Division) Memorial Ypres,Belgium.

Many Heckmondwike men served in The Duke Of Wellingtons Regiment as it was our local area Battalions and an integral part of the 49th Division.

Tyne Cot Cemetery & Memorial, Passchendaele,Belgium. The largest CWGC Cemetery in the world. 11,954 burials of which 8,374 are unknown and the memorial inscribed with 35,000 names of those lost in Ypres Salient from 16th August 1917

Menin Gate,Ypres,Belgium. Contains the names of 54395 Officers and men from UK, Canada, India,Australia & South Africa who lost their lives before 16th August 1917 and have no Known Grave

At the going down of the sun,and in the morning, We WILL Remember Them

M62 Coach Bombing Memorial Service 2016

Wreaths and flowers laid at the memorial

Hartshead Moor Services M62 westbound. Gathering of families,Regimental associations, Mayors of Kirklees & Calderdale & The Royal British Legion Standards.

 Heckmondwike Branch Standard Bearer Mr Shawn Hartley leading the Parade

Regimental association standard bearers

 The Royal British Legion Riders Branch

 Spenborough Branch Chaplain Terry Brewis pictured with Mayor of Kirklees Cllr Paul Kane & Mayor of Calderdale Cllr Lisa Lambert and dignitaries awaiting the march past

Armistice Day 2015

Pupils of Heckmondwike Primary School attended Armistice Day in Green Park, Heckmondwike

Pupils pictured with Mr Peter Bustard, Chairman

Pupils study names and admire flowers on Memorial

Paying their respects to the fallen

Photos courtesy of Heckmondwike Primary School