Bells Of Peace

It was a dark and stormy November 11, 2018 in our little village when the old Anglican Church bell rang out to mark the hundredth anniversary of the end of the first world war.

I was there for the morning session but it was even colder when this sunset version was recorded and I stayed in a more comfortable place.  Even colder than it is now on January 3rd. It took a lot of work to put it all together so the weather could not stop it.

Remembrance Day 2015

Nice sized crowd showed up for the Remembrance Day service today. Every year they read off the list of veterans and legion members who have passed on and it grows a little longer every time. Here is a photo of 4 who have been on that list for a while. My dad, Les Goff at left was a veteran of WWII and his experiences as a gunner in the 18th anti tank battery of the Canadian army have been written about on the blog previously. Memories of WWII
Next, a good neighbour, Phil Fisher, also a veteran of WWII. Next, my grandfather , Horace Nevard, who served in the Canadian Army in WWI.
His experiences have been mentioned on the "Nevardblog" more than a few times.

Finally , at extreme right is Caleb Fisher who served in the Boer war as well as WWI. They all got together for this photo sometime in the mid 1960s.