| Sunday 9th November, 2003 - Remembrance reflections in
Wivenhoe.
Whilst the Royal British Legion's Service was taking place in St Mary's Church, the Wivenhoe Scout and Guide Association were holding their Young People's Act of Remembrance in the Wm Loveless Hall. At 3.30pm both groups joined together around the War Memorial for the reading of the names of the fallen, read out by by Pastor Patrick Baxter, the Exhortation, given by Les Punshon, President of the Wivenhoe Branch of the British Legion, and the Last Post, given by a bugler from the band of the 1st Colchester Boys Brigade. Earlier in the day, Scout Leader Darrin Keeble had taken a party of scouts to Wivenhoe's two cemeteries to place crosses on the seven war graves there. Later, in the Young People's Act of Remembrance, he told the youngsters about Sergeant Horace William Pitt, who became known as The Bandmaster and who died in France on 31st March, 1918. His name, together with two of his brothers, is inc=scribed on the War Memorial. In the evening, the Director of Music at St Mary's led the choir and others in an evening of Mozart, with the main piece being one of the settings of the Vespers – Vesperae solennes de Confessore K339. This was written around 1780 when Mozart was serving as court organist to the Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg. Other smaller pieces by Mozart were included in the programme, including a very attractive Kyrie from the Missa Brevis in B and the anthem 'Unto Thee O Lord do I lift up my soul’.
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