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Tower Hamlets paid tribute to servicemen and women who died serving their count held across the borough on Remembrance Sunday and Armistice Day on Tuesday, N Tower Hamlets remember SEAFARERS of the Merchant Navy and Royal Navy, who lost their lives in the conflicts, were commemorated at a ceremony in Trinity Square Gardens at Tower Hill. Hosted by The Honourable Company of Master Mariners, the service was led by the Reverend Reginald Sweet and the Reverend Margaret Sweet, who read a special prayer to remember those who died in World War I. Speaker of the council Cllr Abdul Chunu Mukit MBE, deputy lieutenant Commander John Ludgate, and Cllrs Peter Golds and Rajib Ahmed were among those who laid wreaths after the service. John Biggs, London Assembly M e m b e r f o r C i t y & E a s t Constituency, and Jim Fitzpatrick, MP for Poplar and Limehouse, also attended. Other wreath layers included representatives of maritime organisations, commercial firms, charities, City Livery companies, trade unions and schools. Cadets from 31 (Tower Hamlets) Squadron, Air Training Corps also attended. AFTER a Remembrance Sunday service at the Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady Immaculate & St Frederick in Limehouse, 100 red helium balloons – each tagged with the name of a local person who passed away in conflict – were released into the sky. Parish priest Father Keith Stoakes joined members of Fifth Tower Hamlets Scouts group to release the balloons. Assistant Scout leader Joan Bridge said the group had researched local regiments and plan to compile their findings into a booklet. EIGHTY people including Cllrs Rachel Saunders, Rachel Blake and Marc Francis attended a memorial ceremony at Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park, organised by the Friends of Tower ELSEWHERE, Armistice Day ceremonies took place at Canary Wharf and at the Tower of London, where the final poppy making up the art installation Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red was placed in the ground. Historic Royal Palaces estimate that more than four million people saw the installation featuring a total of 888,246 ceramic poppies – one for each British and Colonial fatality during the First World War. A team of over 19,000 volunteers from across the UK helped to install the poppies, which have been sold, and will be dispersed to hundreds of thousands of people across the UK and beyond. Two major features of the art Hamlets Cemetery Park. Army Cadets and members of the 4th and 23rd Poplar Scouts were also at the ceremony, which was led by The Reverend Mark Aitken, Master of the Royal Foundation of St Katharine. Ceremonies were also held at Bethnal Green Gardens Memorial and Christ Church, Island Gardens. The Remembrance Day ceremony at Trinity Square Gardens installation will travel to locations around the UK from 2015 and, following the national tour, will be gifted to the nation and go on permanent display at the Imperial War Museums in London and Manchester. Louis, 6, with grandad Jim Conybeare 18 NEWS FROM TOWER HAMLETS COUNCIL AND YOUR COMMUNITY 17 – 23 NOVEMBER 2014


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