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Harrogate cemetery to host Remembrance ceremony

A remembrance service is being held at Stonefall Cemetery this weekend.

A remembrance service is being held at Harrogate's Stonefall Cemetery this weekend.

Hosted by Harrogate Brigantes Rotary, the short service will take place at Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery at 1pm on Sunday (10th November).

The Reverend David Hoskins will lead the service. 

In attendance will be junior soldiers from the Army Foundation College, air cadets, pupils of Ashville College and the Harrogate Band.

Wreath layers will include a deputy Lord Lieutenant, Tom Gordon MP, the Charter Mayor, representatives of British and allied forces and leaders of local organisations.

Guy Wilson of Harrogate Brigantes Rotary said:

“Every year Remembrance means something a little different. Either the world has changed or we have changed and so our response to the service and sacrifice of this and past generations becomes different. 

“This year we have been commemorating D-Day and the Arnhem campaign, one successful, the other not, but both having profound and tragic consequences for many civilians. 

“And we have also been witnessing in real time the terrible destruction of life in the Middle East.

“So our service at Harrogate’s Stonefall cemetery this year picks up on those themes.”

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