Veterans including a 101-year-old who took part in D-Day landings joined Service of Remembrance held by Derbyshire County Council
The service started with a march into County Hall.
Veterans including a 101-year-old who took part in the D-Day landings joined a Service of Remembrance held by Derbyshire County Council.
D-Day veteran Tom Hopkinson, (Royal Navy), and Alan Belton, (Army, intelligence corps), joined the county council’s Chairman Councillor Jodie Brown, guests, county councillors and employees at the service held on Wednesday, November 11 at County Hall, Matlock.
Also present at the service hosted by Councillor Brown were HM Lord Lieutenant of Derbyshire Elizabeth Fothergill CBE and the county council’s Armed Forces Champion Councillor Tony Wilson.
The service started with a march into County Hall by a team from the Long Eaton Sea Cadets and was followed with readings, poems and prayers by Councillor Jason Isherwood, Councillor Lewis Whitbread and Councillor Brown leading up to the national two-minute silence at 11am.
Chairman Councillor Brown delivered the Ode – For the Fallen as well as reading out the names of fallen council officers which are commemorated on a memorial inside County Hall.
A number of wreaths were laid by the memorial and The Last Post and Reveille were played by county council employee Izzy Jepson.