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Downley Men in Roll of Honour
At the Tower o London at dusk the names of the fallen are read out in the Roll of Honour.
The men of Downley are to be honoured in this way on Wednesday 8 October. All the details appear in the email, below, from the Roll of Honour team: “Dear Sir/Madam, Thank you for submitting a name for the Roll of Honour at the Tower of London. We are delighted to confirm that your nomination will be included at the ceremony on the 8th October .
The list of 180 names will be read from the poppy-filled Tower moat at sunset, starting at 6:25pm (18.25). The names will be read the order in which they were submitted and validated. We regret we are unable to make changes to the reading lists. At the end of the reading, which will take about 20-30 minutes, an Army bugler will play the Last Post. If you would like to watch, you can get a good view from the area in front of the Tower ticket desks on Tower Hill.
We will be filming the ceremony and posting the video online. The site is currently being updated with the difference dates, and we will let you know when the video for your date goes live. We are also adding the lists of names being read each night at http://rollofhonour.tumblr.com/ so that they can be seen and remembered from anywhere in the world.
Thank you so much for your support for the Tower of London Remembers project. You can now own a part of the unique installation Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red. Each hand-made ceramic poppy planted in the moat is available to buy at https://poppies.hrp.org.uk/buy-a-poppy/ Roll of Honour team” We are looking at the possibility of arranging transport, mini-bus or coach, depending on the scale of interest.
If you wish to go to get in touch directat: clairebaker55@btinternet.com 01494 437552