REMEMBRANCE DAY
a time to be quiet and think of all those young men and women who died to make this world a better place for you and me.
You will find details of special church services in your local Parish Magazine.
For those of you who live in Ruyton, do you know that our memorial is quite unique, there is not another memorial in the country which you can actually walk into and sit down. It must have been very comforting for those who had lost father, son, brother or other relative to be able to sit in there and think.
Our memorial on the Brownhill is also unusual in that it was carved by the local stonemason, Warwick Edwards and his son. There are many much more beautiful memorials but ours was carved by a man who actually knew the Ruyton men whohad been lost in the Great War.
NATIONAL MEMORIAL ARBOREATUM
at Alrewas, Staffordshire DE13 7AR
If you haven`t been, I do urge everyone to visit this very special place. There you can find memorials to every theatre of war - Far East Prisoners of War, War Widows, The Bevan Boys, Burma Star, Korean Veterans, Kenyon Police, Mediterranean Campaigns, Polish Forces, Royal Tank Regiment, the Shropshire Yeomanry and even a memorial to those who were Shot at Dawn, and many many more.
I found the memorial to the Royal Fleet Auxiliary in which my father served and the Merchant Navy Convoys, in which my Uncle had his ship sunk under him three times - without those brave men bringing supplies from America we could not have been on the winning side of the Second World War.
WE MUST REMEMBER THEM
-- Yoland Brown Brownhill House B&B, Ruyton XI Towns, nr. Shrewsbury SY4 1LR ShACC - Shropshire Alternative Car Club www.eleventowns.co.uk www.eleventowns.com www.ShACC-uk.org Tel: 01939 261 121 Fax: 01939 260626
