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Remembrance Day, Sunday 10th November, 2002 The weather was kind after all to the
Remembrance events in Wivenhoe on Sunday 10th November 2002, after rain
had been forecast all day. A party from 1st Wivenhoe Scouts, led by Leader Darrin Keeble, went to the two cemeteries to revive a tradition of placing crosses on the graves of those who died in the war.
At the same time, the traditional Service of Remembrance was being conducted in the Congregational Church by Pastor Patrick Baxter and Rev David Thomas with the Mayor, Cllr David Craze and members of the Royal British Legion and others. Afterwards, led by the Colne Sea Cadets Band, some three hundred people trooped down to the War Memorial for the traditional reading of the names of the fallen, the minute's silence and the laying of wreathes.
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About two hundred people gathered in the William Loveless Hall for the
Young People's Act of Remembrance. Prayers, thoughts about war, and
hopes for the future were read out by the youngsters as well as listening
to a talk by Bonnie, research by Darrin Keeble into the military career of
John Barlow who died in WW1 as a pilot in the Royal Flying Corps and local
MP, Bernard Jenkin, Shadow Minister of Defence who was the special guest
at the service.
