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Island salutes forebears who sacrificed all in war

 

Solemn Acts of Remembrance have been held around the Isle of Man in honour of those who gave their lives in two world wars and other global conflicts.

In the capital, veterans and serving personnel were joined by members of Island service and voluntary organisations for a procession through the town centre to St Thomas's Church. 

The congregation led by a marching band then moved to the War Memorial on Douglas promenade where the salute was taken by Douglas mayor Carol Malarkey.

A single gunshot signaled the start of two minutes silence before the laying of poppy wreaths.

Elsewhere in the Island, communities have come together at war memorials in towns and villages to pay tribute to their forebears, who left Manx shores never to return.

Remembrance Day events are being held in Ramsey, Castletown, Peel and Onchan while the Island's national Service of Remembrance begins this afternoon at the Royal Chapel of St John at 3pm.

In London a representative of the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company laid a wreath at the Cenotaph in Whitehall to mark the sacrifice made by servicemen from the merchant fleet.

In his address at the Douglas service, vicar of St Thomas's Reverend Ian Brady recalled how the significance of Remembrance dawned on him as a teenager, watching the London cenotaph ceremony on television.

It was a time he said, of public questioning of the annual event: 

 

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