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Saturday. Drum Head Service. Page 2.
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The
reading of the ‘Roll Of Honour’.
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Each year, the names of those Old Boys who have been
recalled to H.Q. since the last reunion are read out and a Cross of
Remembrance is laid for them. Also
included are those classed as ‘Belated Notifications’ of which there has
been an increase in numbers. It
enables us to honour all our Arborfield comrades, and their contemporaries
in particular can remember them.
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One of two of the memorial benches bearing the
Crosses of Remembrance.
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There was an audible ripple of shock when it was
announced that the total number of names on the Roll of Honour this year
was 52. However there were a number
of belated notifications to swell that total.
For example, the first name was that of Joseph Hinds,
October 1939 intake. The family of
Joe had contacted ‘The Editor’ to ask that his name be added to the Nominal
Roll project that we have been compiling on this site. They included details of Joe’s Arborfield
service and beyond, along with a later photo of him. Joe died in September 2001 and I passed
the details to the A.O.B.A as a belated entry. Alan Grounsell died just before the last
reunion so he has been included in the total for this year. No doubt there were a number of names
included in the annual total but which are classed as belated
notifications. However, the passing of Mike Melloy was this year, as indeed
was the loss of Keith Evans, a good friend of the 49ers site.
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Clicking on the Crosses of Remembrance below will
reveal the details of each individual held on site.
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The reading of the ‘Roll of Honour’.
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The sounding of ‘The Last Post’ to be followed after the silence
by ‘Reveille’.
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The piper played the lament ‘Flowers
of the forest’.
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Since the June 2012 A.O.B.A. Reunion Drum Head
Service, a separate Dedication and Remembrance Service was held on the 9th
September 2012 at which additional Memorial Tablets were received. The following two photos show the 30 new
tablets.
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Many more photos on site pertaining to the Army
Apprentice National Memorial can be viewed from
HERE.
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Whist walking through the grounds of the N.M.A to the
Army Apprentice National Memorial to attend the Drum Head Service, ‘The
Editor’ spotted this plaque. We
gather to remember our comrades who served at Arborfield as
apprentices. In doing so, we will
include Royal Signals Apprentice Tradesman David Wright Sutherland who died
in May 1943 and is buried far from home in the cemetery in Finchampstead,
near Arborfield with two more Arborfield apprentices. Unusually for the period, his headstone
bears the badge of the Royal Signals which was not generally seen at the Arborfield
school. The Royal Signals have no
record of him joining them, only his casualty record. At least we can honour him as one of our
own whilst still trying to clear up why he was at Arborfield. The convoluted search for clarification
can be followed from our on site page……….
A.A.S. Memorials.
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The Editor.
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First Published: 22nd
August 2013.
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  Saturday’s Events Continued.
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