First World War focus at Remembrance Sunday this year

Remembrance Sunday services at All Saints this year will carry the additional dimension of remembering the great tragedy of the First World War in this centenary year. As well as wreath-laying and the two-minute silence silence in the Parish Communion service at 9.30am there will be an Act of Remembrance at the 1WW memorial in the churchyard at 11am timed to coincide with the national Act of Remembrance. Civic representatives, church leaders, veterans, currently serving armed services members and youth organisations will gather at All Saints for the annual Civic and Ecumenical Remembrance Service on Sunday afternoon.This year it will recall in particular the fallen of the First World War. All the names of the 230 young men of Wokingham who fell in the First World War will be read aloud; and in addition prayers will be said for the young men of our European twin towns of Viry- Chatillon and Erftstadt who died in the conflict. Details of service times here