Over 70 wreath’s to be laid at Stone’s Remembrance Parade and Service

Over 70 individuals and organisations will lay wreaths as part of Stone’s Remembrance Parade and Service on Sunday, 13th November.

 The Annual Parade, together with Services of Remembrance at the War Memorial in Granville Square and later at the Parish Church of St. Michael and St. Wulfad, will take place on Sunday 13th November. 

The arrangements are as follows: – 

• 10.15 a.m. Parade Personnel to assemble at the bottom of the High Street. 
• 10.35 a.m. Parade to proceed along High Street to the War Memorial.
• 10.45 a.m. Presentation of Wreaths in accordance with the formal Order of Presentation. Persons laying wreaths (including any not on the Order of Presentation) should kindly report to Mr I Prescott, the Parade Marshal, during the parade assembly in the High Street, to be briefed on the wreath-laying ceremony.
• 11.00 a.m. Two Minutes Silence and Service of Remembrance.

The parade will be constructed in the following sections:

The order of wreath laying will be as follows:

1. Town Mayor & Deputy Lieutenant of Staffordshire
2. Staffordshire County Council
3. Sir Bill Cash, MP
4. Royal British Legion
5. Stone Rural Parish Council
6. HMS Collingwood
7. No 22 Signal Regiment, MoD Stafford
8. Royal Air Force Tactical Supply Wing
9. HMS St Vincent Association
10. Royal Air Forces Association
11. Burma Star Association
12. Dunkirk Veterans Association
13. Korean Veterans
14. Suez, Malayia & Cyprus Veterans
15. Guards Division Veterans
16. Far East Prisoners of War
17. Defence Humanists
18. War Widows Association
19. Soldiers, Sailors and Air Force Association (SSAFA)
20. Stone Ex-Servicemen’s Bowling Club
21. Staffordshire Police
22. Staffordshire Fire & Rescue
23. Stone Community First Responders
24. St John Ambulance
25. Stone Detachment (Mercian), Army Cadets
26. No 2352 Sqn, Air Training Corps
27. Scouts, Guides and Trefoil Guild
28. Alleyne’s Academy
29. St Dominic’s Priory School
30. Pirehill First School
31. The Key Educational Trust – Christ Church Academy, Oulton First School and Christ Church First School
32. Manor Hill First School
33. Walton Priory Middle School
34. St Michael’s First School
35. St Dominic’s Catholic Primary School
36. Yarlet School
37. Stone Independents
38. The Conservative Party
39. The Labour Party
40. Christ Church
41. Churches Together
42. University of the 3rd Age (U3A)
43. Stone Lions Club
44. Rotary Club of Stone & District
45. Inner Wheel Club
46. Stone & District Probus Club
47. Stone Round Table
48. National Association of Retired Police Officers
49. St Michael’s Lodge of Freemasons
50. Stone 41 Club
51. Age Concern
52. Friends of Bagnacavallo
53. Stone in Bloom
54. Stone Food & Drink Festival Committee
55. Stone Festival Committee
56. Stone Crown Bowling Club
57. Stone Rugby Club
58. Little Stoke Cricket Club Bowling Section
59. Aston by Stone WI
60. Stone & District Motorcycle Club
61. Stafford and Stone Canoe Club
62. Stone Historical & Civic Society
63. National Farmers Union
64. Staffordshire Search & Rescue
65. Stone Master Marathoners Running Club
66. Stone Community Hub
67. The Royal Exchange
68. Crown Wharf & Joules Brewery
69. Stone Tennis & Squash Club
70. Stone Traders Group
71. Stone SP Cricket Club
72. Stone & District Swimming Club
73. Stone Funeralcare
74. Other Organisations & Members of the Public

Order of Service

‘They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old,
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning,
We will remember them’.

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RESPONSE: ‘ We will remember them’

Followed by The Kohima Epitaph:
When you go home, tell them of us and say:
‘For your tomorrow, we gave our today’

Reading and Prayers

The Lord’s Prayer
Our Father, who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name;
thy kingdom come;
thy will be done;
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses,
As we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation;
but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory,
for ever and ever.
Amen.

Blessing

The National Anthem
God save our gracious King!
Long live our noble King!
God save the King!
Send him victorious,
Happy and glorious,
Long to reign over us,
God save the King.
Thy choicest gifts in store,
On him be pleased to pour,
Long may he reign.
May he defend our laws,
And ever give us cause,
To sing with heart and voice,
God save the King.