Parade commander pleased by island’s strong turnout
Monday 14th November 2011, 2:29PM GMT.
Standards are lowered as the parade and the Town fall silent. (Picture by Steve Sarre, 1197963)
THE Act of Remembrance at St Peter Port War Memorial was well supported yesterday with several hundred participants.
A parade beginning at the fire station preceded the service, with the Guernsey Concert Brass Band leading marching personnel, which included TS Sarnia – Guernsey Sea Cadets, the Elizabeth College Combined Cadet Force and veterans.
Upon arrival at the memorial in Smith Street, a bugler sounded the Last Post before a cannon at Castle Cornet marked the two-minute silence. Wreaths were placed at the foot of the memorial by the Lt-Governor Air Marshal Peter Walker, Bailiff Sir Geoffrey Rowland and representatives of the local cadet forces, among others. Hymns were sung while the wreaths were laid.
Royal British Legion Guernsey branch president Major Eric Le Quesne said that although it was a sombre occasion, spirits were lifted by the weather and the fine turnout of a few hundred islanders as well as those participating in the Act of Remembrance.
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So who represented the States of Guernsey this year?
The press appears to have left it out.
I assume, the Chief Minister.
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I was there, but, I did not see the CM
ministers I did recognise were Steere and Adam
Two others were on t’ “radio moan in” Sunday morning
D Jones was probably at the Vale event?
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Once again Lyndon Trott did not attend. Carol Steere laid the wreath in his absence.
Serious questions should be asked of the Chief Minister over this. 3 years running he has been absent. It’s like David Cameron not appearing at the Cenotaph on Remembrance Day. Such public duties go with the territory.
I doubt he’s a pacifist, so it must be down to the previous controversy with regard to the order of wreath laying?
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