YEOVIL NEWS: Town pays its respects on Remembrance Sunday

HUNDREDS of people descended on Yeovil town centre on Sunday (November 13, 2016) and gathered around the War Memorial to pay their respects to those that had lost their lives during times of conflict.

A parade of servicemen and women, both past and present, as well as youth organisations marched to the War Memorial before civic dignitaries arrived and took their places led by the Mayor of Yeovil, Cllr Darren Shutler, Yeovil MP Marcus Fysh and South Somerset District Council chairman Cllr Mike Best for the Remembrance Sunday ceremony.

A short service took place before a lone bugler played the Last Post to signify the start of a two-minute silence as standard bearers lowered their flags at 11am.

The Borough was eerily quiet, apart from the occasional sound of a child’s voice or a muffled cough, as people stood and remembered.

The silence was broken by the bugler with the playing of Reveille and the standards being raised once more.

A number of wreaths were placed around the foot of the War Memorial before the civic dignitaries and parade marchers went to the nearby St John’s Church for a Remembrance Service.

Similar Acts of Remembrance were carried out at towns and villages across South Somerset on Sunday.

A shorter service was held last Thursday (November 18, 2016) at the War Memorial in Yeovil for Armistice Day when a two-minute silence was held at 11am to commemorate the end of the First World War on November 11, 1918.

Names on the War Memorial in The Borough of Yeovil are as follows:

FIRST WORLD WAR: Walter John Abbott; David Henry Adams; Walter Horace Adams; Edwin Percival Aldworth; Walter William Allen; Richard Ewart Andrew; Douglas Arnold; William James Axe.

Frank Bailey; Lionel John Bailey; Frederick Charles Barnes; Jack Belben; Edward Bertie Bell; George Bell; Edgar George Bennett; John James Bidgood; James Herbert Billen; William John Bindon; Herbert Charles Blake; Sidney Reginald Blake; William George Blake; Colin W. Blandford; Stanley Bowerman; Richard Brown; Robert Hall Brutton; Frederick James Burbage; Harry Henry Burbage; Albert Ernest Burgess; Stanley Burrows; William Bussell.

William John Campbell; Arthur William Channing; Bertie Thomas Chant; Frederick Ernest Chant; William James Chapman; Jesse Chislett; Jack Eustace Chudleigh; Arthur James Clements; Robert Rendell Collins; William Theodore Coombs; George Henry Cooper; Walter Gill Counter; Ernest George Cox; James Henry Crouch; Edwrd Curtis.

Henry George Dade; Reginald Frank Davey; Thomas Charles Davey; John Davis; Charles Mark Deacon; Thomas John Ambrose Denmead; Harold Dicks; Ernest Reginald Diment; Albert George Donovan.

John Charles Earl; Samuel Phillip Eason; Lionel Richard Ewens; Harry Fitkin; James Walter Fone; Ptolemy Henry Fooks; Edward Silke Foot.

William Thomas Gadd; Leonard Alfred George Gale; Reginald Gale; Edmund John Gapp; Frederick George Garrett; Sidney Garrett; Alfred James Gatcombe; Ernest Gatehouse; Norman Carter Godfrey; Harold Gosney; Stanley Reginald Gough; Bert Gould; Edward Bernard Gray; W. Gray; Alfred Thomas Lyndell Gregory.

Conrad Hammett; John Hancock; Albert Edward Hann; Frank Hardement; Edwin Hardy; Fred Hardy; Henry Charles Hardy; Frederick Walter Harrison; Frederick Hawker; Sidney George Hawker; Edwin Hawkins; Bertie John Hayward; S. E. Hayward; Horace Cyril Casley Heard; Albert Helyar; Eli Henwood; S. H. Henwood; Brynford Eaton Higgins; H. Hilborne; Arthur Theophilus Hill; Henry Albert Harry Hockey; Edward Holland; Harry Holland; Percy Lionel Holt; Frederick Thomas Hooper; Victor Hooper; William Stanley Hoskins; Frederick Arthur Hunt; Charles Hutchings; Jenkins Iver; Bert Jennings; Edgar George Jesty; Arthur Douglas Kemp Jones.

Frederick William Langdon; Charles P. Larcombe; Reginald Fred Larcombe; William Crocker Leaver; Walter John Lee; Alfred Lovell; Francis Willoughby Loxton; Ernest John Luffman; Thomas Luxton.

Frederick Major; Samuel March; Douglas D. Marnie; Edward Waters Harbin Marsh; Sidney Charles Masters; Arthur Donald Taylor Matthews; Percy Matthews; Wilfred Vernon Matthews; Rochford George Maunder; T. S. Melhuish; William John Melhuish; Bertram John Membery; John Milton; Thomas Milton; Earle Mitchell; Edmund James Munckton.

Caleb Edney Newis; A. H. Newman; Walter Henry Newman; Daniel Britton Norman; Frederick James Norris; G. Ostler; George Frank Ostler; Herbert Percival Ostler; Harold John Palmer; Robert Parmiter; Arthur Edward Parsons; Arthur John Parsons; Harrie Parsons; Arthur John Partridge; Frederick John Patten; Wilfred Stanley George Payne; Bertie Pennell; Reginald Pennell; Frederick Henry John Phillips; William Arthur Phillips; Ben Richard Pike; B. Pike; Edward Pinney; Ira Clifford Stanley Pinney; Ralph Leonard Pipe; Imbert Stanley Pippard; James Plympton; Frederick Charles Poole; Maurice Arthur Poole; Percy William Poole; John Pound; Joseph Powney; George William Priddle; Herbert Charles Purchase; W. T. Purchase; Walter John Purchase; Wilfred Stanley Edwin Purchase; Albert Charles Purser.

Edgar Rattle; William Redman; Arthur Thomas Rendell; Frederick Harwood Rendell; Giles Rendell; Albert Charles Ricketts; Arthur Ricketts; George Ricketts; William Rodber; Clifford Stanley Rooks; William Rose; William Theophilus Ross; Charles Albert Rowland; Archibald Claud Victor Rowsell; Ernest Rowsell; Horace Baden Rowsell.

H. T. Samson; Charles Samways; George Bernard Samways; Ancil Croydon Sansom; Augustus Bertie Sartin; Francis Sidney Sartin; Ernest George Scriven; Clive Rewi Sears; Frederick Sharpe; Frederick G. Silvester; Cecil Smalley; Herbert Victor Smith; William Charles Smith; William Henry Spiller; William Stroud; William Henry Sugg; Stanley John Sumsion; Roland Valentine Sutton; William Frank Sweet; Archibald Vernon Tavender; Thomas Thompkins; T. Thorne; Alfred Charles Tuck; Clarence Endicott Tucker; Ernest Tucker; S. Tucker.

Lionel Francis Vaughan; Henry C. Vowles; Frederick Wall; William James Warren; Evered Bruce Way; Ralph Leonard Weale; John Milton Welch; H. F. Whalley Whatley; Edgar Whitby; Albert Sidney White; Henry White; Henry John White; Robert George White; William Walter Whittington; Henry George Willis; William John Willis; Percy Lionel Winsor; Stanley James Winsor; John Hedley Wright Yerbury; Frank Young; Richard Webber Young.

SECOND WORLD WAR: Norman Frederick Abbott; Wreford Thomas Bagwell; Robert Sidney Courthope Baker; Arthur Ball; Lionel Arthur Bambury; Hugh William Ward Banfield; Arnold Thomas Barlow; George Ernest Barnes; Louis Harold Barnes; William Victor Bartlett; Mrs Florence Lilian Maud Batstone; Mrs Amelia Bell; John Ritchie Bennie; John William Beswick; Mrs Winifred Annie Bright; Mrs Mary Jane Bugler.

Kenneth Alfred Coombs; Thomas Vincent Cross; Mrs Jessie Emily Culvert; John Charles Dart; Lloyd Terence Rupert Davey; Miss Kathleen Joyce Denmead; Miss Joyce Dodge; Norman Sidney Durrant; Frederick Dyke; Reginald Albert Edgar Eastment; Cecil Beresford Edgerley; Frederick Paul Ewens.

Miss Elsie Farwell; Family Fitkin; Mr Leslie Forsey; Gordon Victor Foyle; Kenneth Harry Francis; Dennis William Galliott; Mr Norman Charles Gay; Patrol Officer Charles Henry Gillard; Master Dennis Gillingham; Ronald Arthur Green; Miss Minnie Doreen Guy; Donald Evan Haines and Rose Mary Haines; Madeline Emily Hann; William Henry Richard Harris; Myrtle Florence Mary Harrison; Reginald Stanley Hawkins; Agnes May Hayward; William George Hewlett; Albert John Hillard; Mrs Lily Hoyle and Master Trevor Hoyle; Albert Victor Hussey.

Michael Jackson; James Walter Jewell; Mrs Linda Christine Johnson; Leonard George Jukes; William David Keen; Mrs Florence Gertrude Lumber; Jack Major; Douglas William Raymond Masters; Peter George Masters; Robert William McVeigh; Mr Albert George Mitchell; Mrs Myra Joan Morris; Mrs Hilda Mary Lambert Mulhall; Roy Clayton Alford Mullis; Mr Alfred Edward Gilbert Neville; Lionel James Norris; Bernard Felix Nowell; Charles Mark Old.

Mr Alfred Aubrey Palmer; Mr James Palmer; Albert Victor Parker; George Victor Paul; Dennis Jack Pearcy; Lawrence Pearson; Philip Henry Perry; John Perry; Beaufort Read Kennan Petter; Mrs Violet Ruby Pickard; Eric William Plowman; Harold Plympton; Mr Lawrence Dreyfus Pritchard.

Cyril Henry Rendell; James Alma Rescorla; Frederick Alan Rivers; Mr Frank William Rose; Donald James Sands; John Ernest Saunders; Norma Frank Saunders; Mrs Elizabeth Jane Smith; Eric George Spearing; Ronald Ernest Leonard Stevens; Frederick Rowland Sutton; Master Lawrence Anthony Sweet; Ronald Swetman; Ronald Seymour Talboys; Douglas William Bulpin Taylor; Persons Known Only to God x Three; John Leonard Till; Ernest William Timbrell; Mr Wendell Jesse Tucker; Bernard Montague Jeffrey Vincent.

Bertram Edmund Wareham; Frank Arthur Watts; Stanley Alfred West; Harry Whittaker; Horace William Brooks Wiley; Colin Eric Willcocks; Lionel Leslie Wimbridge; James D. Wood; George Bramwell Wright; Miss Jean Elsie Young; Sydney Charles Wayman Young.

OTHER CONFLICTS: Allan Joseph McAuley.

Photo Gallery Part 1: Yeovil Remembrance Day 2016: http://www.yeovilpress.co.uk/blog/2016/11/13/yeovil-remembrance-sunday-pt-1-november-13-2016/ .

Photo Gallery Part 2: Yeovil Remembrance Day 2016: http://www.yeovilpress.co.uk/blog/2016/11/13/yeovil-remembrance-sunday-pt-2-november-13-2016/ .

Photo Gallery Part 3: Yeovil Remembrance Day 2016: http://www.yeovilpress.co.uk/blog/2016/11/14/yeovil-remembrance-sunday-pt-3-november-13-2016/ .

Photo Gallery Part 4: Yeovil Remembrance Day 2016: http://www.yeovilpress.co.uk/blog/2016/11/14/yeovil-remembrance-sunday-pt-4-november-13-2016/ .

 Photo Gallery Part 5: Yeovil Remembrance Day 2016: http://www.yeovilpress.co.uk/blog/2016/11/14/yeovil-remembrance-sunday-pt-5-november-13-2016/ .

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