Stoke Gifford Scouts: Remembrance Day Parade in Stoke Gifford 2022

Sunday 13th November saw the Remembrance Day parade in Stoke Gifford where uniformed groups from Stoke Gifford, Little Stoke and Wallscourt Farm all joined together at the Trust Hall car park on North Road and paraded down to The Green to the memorial, and a large crowd of residents and wreath bearers. 

Paul Smith GSL laid the 1st Stoke Gifford wreath and Amy Hancock carried the OSR scout troops flag. There were wreath bearers representing scouting, guiding, local councillors, police officers and cadets the RBL and other organisations.

Weather wise the morning was very glorious and the sun was shining down on us all. The Royal British Legion conducted the memorial to the fallen and Simon Jones performed the service.

This is probably the largest gathering for Remembrance Day on the Green ever and that was with over half the OSR scout troop having other commitments.

“For the Fallen” a poem written by Laurence Binyon was read by John Moloney and during the 2 minute silence you could have heard a pin drop. The respect shown by all that attended was amazing. Let’s hope we have the same or higher numbers in 2023.

The final part was also read by John Maloney

When you go home

Tell them of us and say

For your tomorrow

We gave our today

Although now commonly called the ‘Kohima epitaph’ these words were not written to commemorate Kohima, but were composed at the end of the First World War by a Cambridge classicist turned wartime codebreaker.

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