Town Hall announces service details for Remembrance Day
As the civic authorities have done for more than 100 years, Croydon will tomorrow remember and honour those killed in service for the country in armed conflicts, at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the...
View ArticleOfficer’s distinguished service on Western and Home fronts
WE WILL REMEMBER THEM: The physical and psychological sacrifices made by all those who served, including those who survived the horrors of trench warfare, are important to recall, writes DAVID MORGAN...
View ArticleWe will remember them: civic ceremonies for Nov 11 and 13
Croydon Council has announced the details of the borough’s civic events for Remembrance Day and Remembrance Sunday next week. At 11am on Remembrance Day, Friday November 11, there will be a two-minute...
View ArticleCroydon postman lost forever on the battlefields of France
WE WILL REMEMBER THEM: Ahead of Remembrance Sunday next week, DAVID MORGAN delves into the archives of Croydon Minster for the latest story of a casualty of World War I Percy Kent grew up in Croydon,...
View ArticleCoulsdon war memorial adds 16 names after 104-year wait
There was a poignant ceremony conducted at a war memorial in Coulsdon last week, in conjunction with the other solemn Remembrance services. At the Marlpit Lane War Memorial, 104 years after the end of...
View ArticleFamily keepsakes providing last link to another of war’s victims
SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: Life at the front in World War I was often brief, bloody and brutal. DAVID MORGAN uncovers some of the last pieces of correspondence from one of the soldiers inscribed on Croydon...
View ArticleWarlingham youngsters prepare the ground for Remembrance
Preparations for the solemn ceremonials on Remembrance Sunday at Warlingham Green War Memorial were much helped last weekend by a work party from the local rugby club. Warlingham RFC, which is itself...
View Article£27,591 per year civic mayor won’t attend Armistice ceremony
The council has released details of the ceremonial arrangements and road closures for Armistice Day and Remembrance Sunday next weekend. In doing so, the busy workers in the propaganda bunker of...
View ArticlePurley schoolboy who reached for the sky in Battle of Britain
SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: The Minster archives are full of accounts of those who gave their lives in the world wars. DAVID MORGAN recounts the story of one, a fighter pilot who just might have been...
View ArticleCouncil forgets to clean up Croydon’s listed war memorial
For all the platitudes proffered about honouring the dead from two world wars and other conflicts, Croydon’s civic leaders have done very little… well, nothing, to maintain and clean the war memorial...
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