ATC members using scrubbing brushes, soda and elbow grease preparing Windemere War Memorial for the Lights Out Vigil.

During the coming months Windermere Air Cadets will be following on from their successful Lights Out event held at Windermere War Memorial by refurbishing the Windermere War Memorial gardens.

On Monday 4^th August, 1264 (Windermere) Squadron Air Training Corps, acting on behalf of the Royal British Legion, held a Candlelit Vigil to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the beginning of the Great War, the War to end all wars.

All 132 men lost from Windermere during WW1 were represented in a spectacular display of 132 candles, and were honoured with a cadet-lead act of remembrance. This included cadets joining in with the Exhalation and Kohima, and Cadet Suzanne Hall playing both the Last Post and Reveille.

Every member of the squadron played a role, with both civilian staff and a cadet parading the British Legion and Air Cadet standard and other staff and cadets reading the role of honour.

In this very special year, with the support of their dedicated staff, the cadets will continue honouring our fallen by spending their free time refurbishing the gardens surrounding the war memorial.

They have already been hard at work, with marigolds and scrubbing brushes, giving the stones of the memorial a deep clean in anticipation of this event and soon they will be removing old tired shrubs and replanting with an exciting, new, poppy inspired, planting scheme. This includes preparing the ground for the new shrubs and perennials, creating an area dedicated to sowing Flanders poppies, and planting a mix of red tinged evergreen and deciduous shrubs.

These incredibly motivated and enthusiastic young people have set themselves the aim of having all the renovations completed in time for the Armistice Day Parade.

 If you are interested in lending your support, the cadets are having a working party day one Sunday in September and would welcome the opportunity to share their ideas, for more information please contact them at the Air Cadet building on Park Road in Windermere or email The Royal British Legion Windermere Branch.

1264 (Windermere) Squadron of the Air Training Corps offers a wide variety of activities for young people between the ages of 12 and 18.  For further information email oc.1264@aco.local or telephone 015394 88812.

 The work continues in preparation for Armistice Day.