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Remembrance Sunday at Cenotaph, Blackpool |
8th November 2015 |
| The weather did not dampen the spirits or numbers of Brethren who attended the Cenotaph at Blackpool to mark Remembrance Sunday. Provincial Grand Master Keith Beardmore laid a wreath on behalf of the Mark Province of West Lancashire along with that of the Craft from the Blackpool Group, laid by Group Chairman Peter Bentham. |
| As usual Special Representative John Forster had mustered the contingent of Mark Brethren which grows year on year. The occasion was made even more poignant with the attendance of Sergeant Rick Clements a Blackpool soldier who had survived devastating wounds when blown up by a bomb and on Sunday took his first steps on his new prosthetic limbs to lay a wreath to honour his fallen comrades. The assembled congregation at the service, which numbered several thousand, applauded loudly as he made the supreme effort to walk the faltering steps to the Cenotaph. |
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Pictured are the Group of Mark Brethren accompanied by Peter Bentham, Vice Chairman John Turpin and Group Secretary David Cook along with Ass. PGM (Craft) Harry Cox, also a Mark Grand Officer. |
Report by Keith Beardmore and Photo courtesy of Martin Jones |
