WW2

Current and past school pupils will witness the end of an era on Friday (25 June) as Normandy Veterans lay down their standard for the final time. The Newcastle-under-Lyme branch is being disbanded 66 years after D-Day and the Normandy campaign of World War Two. Members will lay down their standard at the Memorial Hall of Newcastle-under-Lyme School at 4.15 pm on Friday. The school has enjoyed a long relationship with the association with pupils joining veterans on trips to Normandy to learn abo

Although many Remembrance events will have taken place over the weekend, the Eleventh Hour of the Eleventh Day of the Eleventh Month will be marked by many with two minutes’ silence during which we will remember the Fallen from the two World Wars and innumerable conflicts since, and those still on-going. But some are better remembered than others. Most of us are too young to personally remember the Second World War, and the last combatants of the First World War passed away this summer.