Remembrance Day 2019
This years Act of Remembrance comes in 2 parts,
the first part took place in Groningen ,
in the Netherlands on Monday November the 11th,
PART 2 took place on the Wednesday the 13th of November,
at the Serre Road Cemetery No 1 on the Somme France
The first set of images show the preparations,
the placing of the flowers and crosses etc,
prior to the act of rememberance ,
by Menno weilinga , his daughter marjan
and yours truly, my wife sharon did her bit too
Menno and marjan
with the exhortation
for the fallen
The image on the left shows that even on such a,
serious occasion , there is a place for a bit of levity
as menno demonstrated with his inimitable style ,
The last 2 inages on the left bring
to a close , the cemetery part ,
of the day ,but not the whole of that day .
Menno then took us to a mounument in the park behind the prison,
this is one of the few remaining signs of where the camp was , apart
from some buildings that were there before the camp.
The images below show the ceremony and shortly after,
one thing of note , at the bottom of the 3rd image , is the remains of the,wreath we laid the previous year ,
Below are the translations from Dutch to
English of both the plaque and the city information sign ,
i am Indebted to Guido Blokland for doing
the translations .
This simple street sign on the left
is about the only other visible sign of the camp
And so this brings to an end of part 1
in Groningen .Part 2 the somme starts below,
with images of the Serre road No 1 cemetery.
Normally we lay a wreath on the Grave of A/B C.J PARKES bottom left image,but as we did and walked back to the car,
Sharon noticed anther R N D lad BZ/061 A/B V.G TAY,
RNVR Howe Battalion who died on nov the 13th 1916,
102 years ago to the date on his headstone
