Armistice Day 11 November 2022

“They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, We will remember them”

Mayor Councillor Bryan Futers laid a wreath on behalf of Prudhoe Town Council to commemorate the fallen, along with Margaret Wilkes on behalf of the Royal British Legion Prudhoe and District Branch Women’s Section, and Guy Opperman MP for Hexham and Prudhoe.  They were joined  by Prudhoe Town Councillors, Clerk to Council, County Councillor Gordon Stewart, Royal British Legion Prudhoe and District Branch members, Ex-Service Personnel, and local residents to name but a few to observe the two minutes silence at 11.00am.

Margaret Wilkes on behalf of the Royal British Legion Prudhoe and District Branch read The Exhortation “They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old.  Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn”

Councillor Chris Barrett read The Kohima “When You Go Home, Tell Them Of Us And Say, For Your Tomorrow, We Gave Our Today.”

The Last Post and Reveille was performed by Debra Smurthwaite.

Photograph taken by Bill Wooldridge, Community Photographer, Present (left to right)  John Gaut Chair of RBL Prudhoe and District Branch Men’s Section, Debra Smurthwaite, MP Guy Opperman, Mayor Cllr Bryan Futers, Margaret Wilkes RBL Prudhoe and District Branch Women’s Section