H.M.S. Dunedin Remembrance Ceremony  

Royal Naval War Memorial

 Southsea Common
24th November 2007, 1300 hours

1300:   Assemble in front of the WWII memorial plaques  

1320:    Sound of the alert, followed by:

Introduction: Chris Broadway (Lt-Cmdr, RN, Ret)
1321:    Address: Stuart Gill, on behalf of The Dunedin Society

1326:    Bill Gill, survivor and President of the Dunedin Society

                The Exhortation:

“They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old, age shall  not weary them, nor shall the years condemn. At the going  down of the sun, and in the morning, we shall remember them.”

All: “We shall remember them.”

BuglerThe Last Post

AllTwo minutes silence 

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Andrew (Boy) McCall, survivor: The Kohima Epitaph:

“When you go home, tell them of us and say, for your  tomorrow we gave our today.”

                All: “We will not break faith with you.”   

 

Wreath-laying, the first wreath being laid by the President on behalf of all members of the Dunedin Society.