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This year Armistice Day and Remembrance
Sunday fell on the same day so services to remember
Maybole’s war dead, which are normally held separately,
were combined on Sunday. The first service was held in
the Town Hall led by Rev Dave Whiteman and Fr Stephen
McGrattan. The service began at 10am with Robert Malone
and William Milligan carrying the colours of the Royal
British Legion Scotland and the Union Flag into the
packed hall to be received by the clergy. Elizabeth
McJannetof Carrick Academy recited “In Flanders Fields”
and Janetta Rodger read the lesson.
In his sermon Rev Whiteman reminded
everyone. “Remembrance Day is, of course, the time set
aside nationally to reflect; a time to remember, a time
to mourn those who made the supreme sacrifice, who gave
their lives in the First and Second World wars; and wars
since, and wars going on at this moment in time; those
who died that others that we might have hope.” He added,
“Society needs to hear those poignant words of Binyon’s
Lines:
“They shall not grow
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.”
“and those wonderful
and moving words of the Kohima Epitaph:
“When you go home,
tell them of us and say:
for your tomorrow, we
gave our today”.
Following the service Maybole Pipe Band
led the parade to the war memorial where at 11am there
was the traditional two minute silence during a service
led by Rev Whiteman and Fr McGrattan. Pipe Major Gavin
Nicol, of Maybole Pipe Band, played the lament and Alex
Kelly recited Binyon's Lines and the Kohima Epitaph.
Wreaths were laid by the local branch of
the Royal British Legion Scotland, the Women’s Section
of the branch, the armed Forces, Friends and Families,
South Ayrshire Councillors Brian Connolly and Ann
Galbraith, Maybole Town Twinning Association, Maybole
Community Association, Maybole Council of Churches, Boys
Brigade, Scouts, Cubs, Guides, Brownies, Carrick
Academy, Masonic Lodges, Apprentice Boys of Derry,
Carrick Round Table, and the local Fire Brigade.
Afterwards the pipe band led the parade back to the
Greenside for a short service when wreaths were laid at
the flagpole whish is a war memorial, and miniature
poppy crosses were planted by local people. |
