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I'm so very sorry that Jean is ill, and hope that she will be looked after well and soon back with us. Also hoping Bern's sinuses get blasted out!
No, this service happens each year at the Parish Memorial for St Mary's. Probably what you heard, Roger, was where we were involved down at the now Cruise Terminal for the service there on Tuesday. It was very special - this is where the Unknown Warrior came home, of course, in 1920, and as did so many wounded servicement, and also there are many SECR railwaymen on the memorial. The British Torch of Remembrance comes to the service, having been lit at the tomb of the Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey, and then leaves our shores on its way to Belgium, to their Unknown Soldier there.
We (the DWMP) marked the 90th Anniversary of the Homecoming of the Unknown Warrior with a big educational project, in partnership with Westminster Abbey and The City of Westminster Archives, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, and a small part of that project was the creation of an exhibition. The exhibition includes a stained-glass window made by Dover Scouts and Browinies with artist Jonathan Boast, and the exhibition and the window have been at the Port of Dover on display since August, and were on the Marine Station for the service.
At the same time, we had relatives of a casualty on the SECR memorial come to the service for their first time to lay a wreath, and also the family of one of the casualties we studied for the Unknown Warrior project. The family laid a special wreath at the plaque for the Unknown Warrior, erected by the Dover Society, after Derek Leach, the chairman, laid his.
So that's what we were doing - and then we dismantled the exhibition (thank you very much, dear volunteers and Rev Lewis for your help!) and have now taken it up to Bury St Edmunds, to the cathedral, in time for 11.11.11 up there and the Armistice services.
Could I please thank the staff of DHB, who really couldn't have been more helpful and friendly while hosting the exhibition, and also the super people who organised and arranged what was a very lovely and moving service at the former Marine Station.