On the evening of Thursday 6th June 2024, Bembridge Parish Council will join the nationwide commemoration of the 80th Anniversary of D-Day by lighting the beacon on Culver Down. The Parish Council has arranged an ecumenical Service of Remembrance, led by Archdeacon Steve Daughtery and Revd David Plumb, whilst The Brading Community Choir will sing a medley of songs before the service starts, and the Ryde Sea, Army and Air Cadets will participate. Mary Teague will preface the 2-minute silence with the haunting notes of the Last Post and signal the end of the silence with the Reveille. HM Lord-Lieutenant will light the beacon.
Timings are as follows:
- 20:30 – At the beacon
- 20:40 – Brading Community Choir will sing a medley of songs
- 20:45 – Service starts
- 21:15 – Beacon lighting
- c.21:25 – Service ends
Parking – Is limited near the beacon and you may have to walk from further car parks to the beacon. Exit – There will be temporary traffic lights at the junction with the main road to ensure that departing cars can exit safely. Cancellation – In the event of cancellation due to high winds/weather, the service will be held at Holy Trinity Church, Bembridge instead. We will do our best to communicate this with social media and emails.
Why not just light the old Ocean Hotel and make Sandown look
cleaner
Soon very likely to have another World War to commemorate.
Read the signs, first the Emergency warning on all mobiles was ‘tested’ in case of ‘fire’.
Yeah, sure it was for fire, HMG trying not to cause panic.
Second, Minister telling us to stock up on tinned food, candles etc.
Third the tentative start of the reintroduction of National Service in the UK, again, gently at first, so as not to cause panic.
So go, celebrate, but cuddle you children well tonight, for one day, others will likely be remembering their ‘sacrifice’.
I wonder how many inhabitants of the UK ‘suddenly’ won’t be British and remain to ensure the land is populated beyond recognition by any hero’s who are lucky enough to return.
I agree, these are gentle preparations just in case, BUT I do not think we have another world war on the horizon. Hopefully the state of the world has woken up our government to the state of our countries defence capabilities. Working in the industry I can tell you they are woefully lacking.
It those people who gave their lives so stupids like you have a voice. Grow up and show some respect #idiot
What rubbish you speak Stacey.
People who went to war, didn’t ‘give up their lives’ for future unknown people.
They like lads of today, went because they had little choice, and those who did want to go, would have gone to protect THIER way of life for themselves AND their loved ones, not to allow boats filled with freeloaders from the world, to take what their parents, and grandparents had worked so hard for, to provide themselves and their families with.
THINK about it, if capable of doing so as likely brainwashed by the media now..
Ironic that even IF you were right, which your aren’t, “they gave their lives so you had a voice”, then, when people use that freedom of speech, you want it silenced. Classic typical hypocrite.
What I must say is that the so called authorities
Government and Councils etc claim they care about
military lives etc, yet they let ex servicemen live ROUGH
on the streets.
Now Fishi Rishi is wanting youngsters to do
National Service if he wins the election,
obviously his own children won’t be doing it.
If the brave men and women had not gone to war to fight for our freedom. You would not be here today, (which seeing how you think would not be a bad thing) but yes they do deserve respect, so I hope this goes on for many years to come.
Politicians don’t send their own children to War.
Just imagine Blair sending his children.
Royals have more medals than an Antique shop,
how they get them I don’t know.
What the last 2 Wars have shown me is that they create these wars
to de-populate.
I feel sorry for the young lads who were Cannon Fodder in WW1
they didn’t stand a chance (they were sadly Lambs to the slaughter)
Nowdays the youngsters wouldn’t go and fight, they are too busy
being influencers or gaming.
Wow.. I can see the level of respect you have for the world we live in. Would have been a very different place if those brave soldiers hadn’t made the ultimate sacrifice!
You mean IF these poor guys and women and animals, had not risked and lost their lives back then, we might now be over-run with foreigners, who would change our society beyond recognition and we would end up the minority as a never ending stream of them arrived?
Hmm, seems thanks to corrupt politicians that these poor lives were all lost in vain.
For, as today, they never went to allow their country to be filled with those who hate us, but love the easy life that past generations worked so hard to create for their kith and kin, not every chancer to free load from forever.
So mourn their loss, a little more, for now their sacrifice seems such a waste of young life more than ever before.
Honestly some people really do think that working men and womann would have risked their lives to allow our country to be filled with not only foreigners, coming to claim what the soldiers ancestors had worked, fought and some died for, but to have our MP’s allow in those people which openly ‘hate’ us, and have raped our indigenous children, beheaded our Police and soldiers on our streets.
As you say, they fought to protect their way of life, and their own families and communities.
Yes some coloured did fight, but again, ONLY because they knew they would be treated far far worse by the Nazi’s, should they have won.
I have full respect for our fallen soldiers, yet pretending they willingly died for imm’s is to insult them.
Do you honestly think ‘foreigners’ have dramatically changed your day to day life? I know the IOW is slightly shielded but how can you compare this to what our country would have looked like if he had lost the war. I’m not saying illegal immigration is not a problem (it obviously is), but not really comparable. You can’t stop the world from changing, you fight for what you believe in when the fight is needed.
excellent so nice to have these events ,hoping to be there