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For the fourth consecutive year, the ladies of the Kitting Group, with their partners, have decorated the railings at St Mary's Church, Upchurch, with hundreds of beautiful knitted poppies, as a special Remembrance Sunday commemoration.
A lovely new poppy post box topper, complete with knitted Tommy, has been added this year with wreaths on the post office railings, a giant poppy in the bus shelter, and several poppies on the top of bollards.
It looks beautiful - Thank you
The Poppy Memorial Seat to the villagers who lost their lives during the WW1 and WW2 conflicts has also returned to the base of the Memorial Sleeve, wrapped around the Upchurch village sign.
The Memorial Seat, manufactured and fitted by the Boakes family, has written on it:
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 plaque reads:
A TRIBUTE TO
The Brave Souls from Upchurch
That made the Ultimate Sacrifice
“WE WILL REMEMBER THEM”
Remembrance Sunday - 14th November 2021
Royal British Legion
100 years of supporting the Armed Forces community
