11:21am Tuesday 10th November 2009
By Natalie Stewart
COMMUNITIES across South Lakeland, Furness and Eden have paid tribute to the men and women who lost their lives in the two world wars and other conflicts.
In Kendal on Sunday, members of the public joined the town’s branch of the Royal British Legion (RBL) to lay wreaths at the War Memorial Gardens in Romney Road before proceeding to the Market Place for a second wreath laying service.
The parade processed to Kendal Parish Church, where the Rev Stephen McCann led the remembrance service, assisted by the Rev Ashley Henderson.
In Milnthorpe, special guest Tim Hawsley was invited from Cornwall to lay a wreath on the centopath, which bears his father’s name.
Roy Woodhead, who used to live in Milnthorpe, died in Fayid, Egypt, in 1952.
“It was an emotional gathering,” said John Taylor, chairman of the Cumbria and North Lancashire Canal Zoners, which led the remembrance parade from Milnthorpe Square to the war memorial and onto St Thomas’s Parish Church.
At Ulverston, the fire service joined the parade, which marched to Ulverston Parish Church where the Rev Alan Bing led a service before a wreath laying service back at the cenotaph in Market Square.
The Ornamental Gardens in Grange-over-Sands provided the setting for a wreath-laying service on Sunday along with a service at St Paul’s Parish Church, Grange.
The Kendal Sea Cadets Band played the Last Post at the war memorial in Windermere before a service in St Martin’s Church, Bowness.
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