THE ‘Tommy’ silhouette stands in All Saints’ churchyard at Wootton Courtenay – and a wall of remembrance has been put up inside for personal messages and tributes from villagers.
The wall offers local people a chance to remember family or friends who have died or been injured in armed conflict since 1914.
Bishop Brian Castle begins Wootton Courtenay’s weekend with a lecture in the church at 7.30pm tonight (Friday). It is entitled ‘At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them – Remembering through the lens of reconciliation’.
The lecture – which he also gave in Exeter Cathedral earlier in November – is a reminder that the way the past is remembered affects the present and shapes the future.
An assistant bishop in the diocese of Bath and Wells, he is a resident of Wootton Courtenay.
The Royal British Legion traditional Service of Remembrance is at 10.55am on Sunday and an evening of poetry and prose will begin at 7.30pm. Both are in All Saints’ Church.
First performed by local residents in 2014, the chosen pieces of poetry and prose will tell the story of the war, from outbreak to remembrance, with all the events in between.