Yesterday's service in memory of the fallen at
Beaumont-Hamel was beautifully presented and very well attended. Of special note were the lines of nurses, smart in their white uniforms and red capes, and the tall and cantering Constabulary horses. As the ceremony unfolded - brief prayers, Taps, a gun salute in three volleys - everyone kept a respectful quiet, even the smallest children. And then, we hope, everyone spent the rest of their holiday, the first real summer day in the city, doing as they pleased, and in peace, as those soldiers must dearly have hoped, some day, to do.
(Image: danger tree at Beaumont Hamel, granitebreweries.)
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