A Time To Reflect

Today Armistice Day and on the ‘eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month’ people will stop and observe a two-minute silence.

Cllr David Elvidge is one of those people who today will stop and think of his family, on Sunday he laid a wreath at Hengate Gardens as he remembered a loved, Mr Elvidge said;

“This weekend as throughout the UK Remembrance Day services and parades were attended in far greater numbers then in recent years and by all ages.”

“Personally during the silence I thought of my Grandfather Thomas Elvidge, how could I possibly comprehend what it was like to work on a farm one week driving a wagon around East Yorkshire then go off to war  and drive a wagon around France.”

“He then end up injured in Salonica and was discharged from the Army in 1919 with the disability of damaged hearing from a shell burst. “

“A century ago the world was so different in many ways but almost everyone I know  remarked on their family ties to the First World War it was indeed a time to reflect.”