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Article by Jackson Brotchie
Remembrance Day.
What is happening on remembrance day?
There is a small Remembrance Assembly between the Saint Ignatius Feast Day Mass and the blessing of The Loyola Centre. The assembly is been run over about 10 minutes with a speech by Jackson Brotchie, minute of silence, national anthem and a catafalque party run by Charlie Hardcastle. On the day there will also be a stall selling poppies located at The Loyola Centre (admin building) and a lowering of flags at 11:11am.
Remembrance day mapWhat is remembrance day?
Remembrance Day is a day of remembering war and what happened in it. By this we mean remembering the people that fought that died and survived with many problems like loss of limbs and ptsd. It is also a time when the soldiers that survived knew that they would hopefully see their families soon. It is a day of remembering the bloody battle that happened during the time of the war. During WW1 it wasn’t always a bloody battle. During one of the Christmas times the two different sides called a truce and played soccer. They also called truces in order to be able to remove the bodies of their former colleagues from no man's land who died trying to gain ground.
At some points of the war they were in the same spot as what they were a year before. They might make ground, but as quickly as they make ground they could also lose it. There were also the never ending gas shells flying over the heads to be avoided.
In the trenches in the morning of the 11th of November all the troops were happy that the armistice was getting signed at 11am but they still knew anything could happen and they still might not make it past 11am.
What is the armistice? The armistice was signed by all the countries that were involved in the war. This was to declare that the war would be ending with a cease fire at 11am on the 11th of November. After the long 4 years of never ending battle with not much change in the way of territory in some areas and the 9.7 million troops lives lost and 10 million civilians that were killed.
Jackson Brotchie
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Our News // 04 November 2022
Article by Jackson Brotchie
Remembrance Day.
What is happening on remembrance day?
There is a small Remembrance Assembly between the Saint Ignatius Feast Day Mass and the blessing of The Loyola Centre. The assembly is been run over about 10 minutes with a speech by Jackson Brotchie, minute of silence, national anthem and a catafalque party run by Charlie Hardcastle. On the day there will also be a stall selling poppies located at The Loyola Centre (admin building) and a lowering of flags at 11:11am.
Remembrance day mapWhat is remembrance day?
Remembrance Day is a day of remembering war and what happened in it. By this we mean remembering the people that fought that died and survived with many problems like loss of limbs and ptsd. It is also a time when the soldiers that survived knew that they would hopefully see their families soon. It is a day of remembering the bloody battle that happened during the time of the war. During WW1 it wasn’t always a bloody battle. During one of the Christmas times the two different sides called a truce and played soccer. They also called truces in order to be able to remove the bodies of their former colleagues from no man's land who died trying to gain ground.
At some points of the war they were in the same spot as what they were a year before. They might make ground, but as quickly as they make ground they could also lose it. There were also the never ending gas shells flying over the heads to be avoided.
In the trenches in the morning of the 11th of November all the troops were happy that the armistice was getting signed at 11am but they still knew anything could happen and they still might not make it past 11am.
What is the armistice? The armistice was signed by all the countries that were involved in the war. This was to declare that the war would be ending with a cease fire at 11am on the 11th of November. After the long 4 years of never ending battle with not much change in the way of territory in some areas and the 9.7 million troops lives lost and 10 million civilians that were killed.
Jackson Brotchie
