Remembrance Day Poppy Appeal
3rd November 2008

The meeting in the temple is the same, after at the Festive board the usual toasts are given.

Our Brother's in arms are remembered in these field's, they live on in our minds and in the memories of those they loved. Their example also signals to coming generations of servicemen and women that much is expected of them. comradeship lies at the very core of our creed as servicemen and women, Comradeship, in its true military sense, implies self-sacrifice. We remember these men and women for their youthfulness, courage and character. For those who knew them, they will always be part of our lives.

The lodge raffle money (£350.00) was donated to
"The Royal British Legion" ... 

In Flanders Fields

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the dead. Short days ago
We lived, saw dawn, felt sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up your quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow

In Flanders fields.

Those red poppies
Are all that we give to those
Who receive.
They died on bloody fields,
they wept their tears
But, determined to succeed,
They hid their fears.

As their hats fell I hear the shear shudder.
As their hats fall I hide under cover,
For I am not a true soldier
Who died in these wars,
But I am the young sister who cries and mourns
For the loss of my brother
Who knocked on heaven's door.

Written by:-
Ruth Rayment aged 16
The youngest sister of 
Pte Christopher Gordon Rayment

Captain David Patton (Left above) of the Parachute Regiment was born on 12 Sept 1967. Sergeant Paul Bartlett (Right above) Royal Marines was born on 3 March 1971. Tony Blair led tributes in the House of Commons to the two British special forces' soldiers killed on Tuesday 27th June 2006 in a Taliban ambush in Afghanistan. The men are believed to have been a member's of the Royal Marines' Special Boat Service and a Captain from the Army's Special Reconnaissance Regiment.