The Royal British Legion is the
National Custodian of Remembrance
During 2025 this Branch raised and donated £4,740.10p to the Poppy Appeal!
Remembrance Sunday this year will be the 9th November, 2025, the second Sunday of November (being the nearest to Armistice Day) is the day traditionally put aside to remember all those who have given their lives for the peace and freedom we enjoy today.
Come and join us at the Memorial Hall to Toast the King, before marching to the Church with our Standard Bearer and Bugler to our special Service of Remembrance followed by our Annual Meeting at the Greyhound Inn.
- We now Remember the 26 men who gave failed to return to our Village from World War 1 having paid the ultimate sacrifice:
L BERTIE BIRCH
ARTHUR BALDWIN
CHARLES DUMPLETON
WILLAIM DELDERFIELD
EARNEST EATON
GEORGE EDEN
EDWARD EDWIN
JAMES EDDEN
GEORGE FOWLER
ROLAND LINES
SIDNEY MARSH
JAMES MESSINDER
ALBERT PHILPOT
ARNOLD JELLIS
ARTHUR REEDMAN - MILITARY MEDAL
WILLIAM REEDMAN
ARTHUR SAUNDERS
STANLEY SWABY
EDWARD TURNEY
ERNEST TURNEY
THOMAS TURNEY
REGGIE TURNEY
GORDEN WELLING
GEORGE WILLMORE - MILITARY MEDAL
CECIL WILKIN
WILLIAM WISSENDEN
- And the 10 men who failed to return from WWII
CLAUDE ALLISON
WILLIAM BRADDING
FRANK BALDWIN
JOESPH BUXTON
EDWARD EDWIN
FREDERICK JELLY
ARTHUR MOORCRAFT
ERNEST REEDMAN
THOMAS THWAITES
VICTOR de SOISSION
The Exhortation
"They shall grow not old as we that are left grow old,
Age shall not weary them nor the years condemn,
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them".
The Silence
Kohima Epitaph
"When you go home tell them of us and say, for your tomorrow we gave our today!"