MOTHs on parade this Sunday
MOTHs will form-up at 10.15am and the parade will start at 10.30am
THE Fort Pearson MOTH Shellhole in eShowe will be hosting this year’s District Remembrance Day (sometimes known informally as Poppy Day) parade this Sunday, 13 November in the Fort Nongqayi Museum Village.
All former servicemen and women, including members of the uniformed services and the public are invited to attend and, if they so wish, lay wreaths.
Their intention to lay wreaths needs to be communicated to Rob Wilson prior to the parade.
MOTHs will form-up at 10.15am and the parade will start at 10.30am.
The event will be followed by a Zululand District meeting to be held at the eShowe Bowling Club.
Those wishing to participate in the parade need to contact Rob Wilson on 072 9021942 before Sunday.
Significance of Remembrance Day
‘Poppy Day’ is a memorial day observed in Commonwealth of Nations member states since the end of the First World War to remember the members of their armed forces who have died in the line of duty.
Remembrance Day is observed on 11 November in most countries to recall the end of hostilities of World War I on that date in 1918.
The First World War officially ended with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles on 28 June 1919.
The red remembrance poppy has become a familiar emblem of Remembrance Day due to the poem ‘In Flanders Fields’ written by Canadian physician Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae.
After reading the poem, Moina Michael, a professor at the University of Georgia, wrote the poem, ‘We Shall Remember,’ and swore to wear a red poppy on the anniversary.
The custom spread to Europe and the countries of the British Empire and Commonwealth within three years.
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