REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY 13TH NOVEMBER 2022

Representatives of the Lieutenancy laid wreaths at Remembrance Services right across Lanarkshire to remember and honour all those who made the ultimate sacrifice .

Where we could not be present at a Remembrance Service, due to the number of locations involved , a number of wreaths were once again laid outside the formal service settings .

Brian Miller DL at the Remembrance Sevice at Bellshill .

 

 

Terry Curry DL laying a wreath at the Craigneuk War Memorial .

20 residents of Coulter attended the Act of Remembrance at the village War Memorial on 13 November 2022. A short parade from the school to the Memorial was led by a piper to the tune of ‘Scottish Soldier.’ A wreath was laid by Colonel Ted Shields MBE DL, on behalf of the Lord-Lieutenant of Lanarkshire, and then wreaths were laid by representatives of the Estate, the Council and residents whose relatives are recorded on the memorial. Interest and participation in the Act of Remembrance has grown considerably in recent years.

Terry Curry DL laying a wreath at Overtown War Memorial .

Andrew Braidwood DL (right) along with Rev Iain Majcher and Councillor Kenny McCreary at the Bothwell Remembrance Service .

Deputy Lieutenant Colonel Stuart Roberts laid a wreath at the Symington War Memorial .

Deputy Lieutenant Louis Munn laid a wreath at the Leadhills War Memorial .

Deputy Lieutenant Colonel Stuart Roberts at the War Memorial at Crawfordjohn .

Deputy Lieutenant Janet Low at the Remembrance Service at Cambuslang .

Deputy Lieutenant Derrick Hannan laying a wreath at the New Monkland War Memorial .

The War Memorial at Carnwath where Colonel Ted Shields MBE DL laid a wreath.

Deputy Lieutenant Derrick Hannan laid a wreath at Calderbank War Memorial.

The War Memorial at Newarthill where Deputy Lieutenant Terry Curry laid a wreath .

Derrick Hannan DL laid a wreath at the War Memorial in Salsburgh .

Deputy Lieutenant Sandy Wilkie MBE laid a wreath at the Larkhall War Memorial accompanied by 4 generations of his family including a cousin visiting from Canada .

Deputy Lieutenant Fazal Bukhsh at the War Memorial at East Kilbride where he laid a wreath .

Deputy Lieutenant Sandy Wilkie MBE along with his granddaughter at the Auchintibber War Memorial where he laid a wreath .

Deputy Lieutenant Fazal Bukhsh laid a wreath at the Holytown War Memorial .

On Armistice Day Hamilton Accies Football Club welcomed Pamela Thomson Graham and her father to a ceremony at their stadium in memory of Private Johnny Thomson who was killed in action in July 1944 . At the ceremony Deputy Lieutenant John Brown DL laid a wreath on behalf of the Lord Lieutenant .

David Russell DL laying a wreath at the Morningside War Memorial .

 

Posted by Gavin Whitefield