In Remembrance
Remembrance Day was first observed in 1919 then it was known as Armistice day; it became Remembrance Day in 1931. It all stems back to the end of WW1 when the Armistice was agreed at 5am with the first term being that the fighting would cease at 11am, unfortunately between those times almost 3,000 soldiers were killed. All together 880,000 young British men were killed and another 300,000 killed in WW2. The wearing of the poppy came in 1920 the reason being that it flourished on the WW1 battlefields.
Sawtry’s war memorial was unveiled on 26th May 1921 and it carries the names of 28 young men from WW1 and 12 from WW2. Every year a good well supported parade takes place from the Green to the Church, unfortunately 2020 was different due to the situation regarding COVID-19 all the different groups who lay a wreath did so on different days due to social distancing. Click on the WW1 & WW2 headings below for links to photographs.
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