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Service of Remembrance 2017 HEDDLU DE CYMRU • SOUTH WALES POLICE SERVICE OF COMMEMORATION & REMEMBRANCE AT THE WAR MEMORIAL POLICE HEADQUARTERS BRIDGEND FRIDAY 10TH NOVEMBER 2017 AT 10.50AM CADW DE CYMRU’N DDIOGEL 1• KEEPING SOUTH WALES SAFE THE GREAT WAR CENTENARY 19 14-19 18 201 4-2018 The Great War, the war to end all wars had a catastrophic effect on humanity and the world as a whole. Great empires centuries old collapsed and disappeared, new countries formed and the world changed forever. Please take sometime before the service begins to read the following statistics. 1. 1 million British and Commonwealth soldiers lost their lives. 250,000 underage teenage boys enlisted in the army, the youngest age 13 years. 50% were killed. The remains of 100,000 troops still lie under the battlefields. At the battle of the Somme, 1916 in Picardy, 17,000 British soldiers were killed and 40,000 wounded on the first day of battle. 14,287 merchant seamen lost their lives. O valiant hearts who to your glory came. 10 million civilians died of starvation and illness. 1 million civilians were killed as the result of military action LEARN • ENGAG2 E • REMEMBER SERVICE OF COMMEMORATION Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called sons of God MATTHEW Ch.5 v.9 POPPIES OF REMEMBRANCE Delicate and bright, they catch the eye, petals open to embrace the world. Innocent, they push their way through soil and rubble, seeking light. In the light they bring forth colour to a devastated land. Blood red, they reveal the horrors lived out on the ground of their creation. Nurtured, nourished, by the rain that fell, the blood shed of human life. Their birth into the ground of warfare, herald’s remembrance. Delicate and bright, they catch the eye, petals gently moving in the breeze. Innocent, and with gentleness, they subvert all the land has witnessed. In the light of a new day they bring forth colours of peace and hope. Blood red, they reveal the pulse and life of love possible in humanity. Nurtured, nourished by creation, they become our Remembrance, Of all that has been, and is, and never should be again. 1 SERVICE OF COMMEMORATION Chief Constable WELCOME Chaplain We are gathered here together in the presence of Almighty God to give thanks and to commemorate the sacrifices of those who gave their lives for our freedom. Amen ACT OF REMEMBRANCE THE LAST POST THE SILENCE REVEILLE THE EXHORTATION Chief Constable They shall grow not old as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them. And all shall repeat: We will remember them LAYING OF WREATHS THE KOHIMA EPITAPH Chief Constable When you go home tell them of us and say for your tomorrow we gave our today. 2 SERVICE OF COMMEMORATION A READING P o li c e a n d C r im e MICAH C h. 4 v.1-5 Commissioner It shall come to pass in the latter days, that for South Wales the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be raised up above the hills; and peoples shall flow to it, and many nations shall come, and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; that he may teach us his ways, and we may walk in his paths.” For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. He shall judge between many peoples, and shall decide for strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more; but they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree, and none shall make them afraid; for the mouth of the Lord of hosts has spoken. For all the peoples walk each in the name of its god, but we will walk in the name of the Lord our God for ever and ever. 3 SERVICE OF COMMEMORATION “REMEMBERED WITH PRIDE” This year South Wales Police, as part of its commemoration of the centenary of the First World War, remembers fifteen police officers from our predecessor forces of Glamorgan, Cardiff, Swansea and Merthyr, who died during 1917. It was another year of terrible loss of life especially during the Third Battle of Ypres (the Battle of Passchendaele) which started on 31st July and went on until 10th November, exactly one hundred years ago today. Amongst the police officers who died in that battle was Constable Percy John Marks of the Cardiff City Police. He was from Somerset and was serving with the Welsh Guards when he was killed in action on 4th September 1917. He was 22 years of age. His sergeant wrote this letter to his father: “Dear Mr Marks. Just a few lines to inform you of the death of your son. Corpl Marks and myself were very good chums, because we belong to the same battalion and came together on this job. All the boys miss him because he was so cheerful. He always had a smile on his face, and I miss him very much, because he was one of the best NCO’s I had under me. The way he met his death was by a shell dropping right on top of the dugout, killing one NCO and three men. They were killed outright and buried beneath the dug- out. I was out digging for him last night and this morning and I shall do my best as a soldier and a pal to see that your son and the others are buried properly. If there is anything you would like to know I shall be only too pleased to help you. Your son was a good soldier and a brave one as well. Please accept the sympathy of all the boys and myself in your great loss. DJ Richards, Sergt.” The Welsh poet Ellis Humphrey Evans, Hedd Wyn, who died on the first day of the Battle of Passchendaele described such loss in his poem Rhyfel/War: Mae’r hen delynau genid gynt The harps to which we sang are hung Ynghrog ar gangau’r helyg draw On willow boughs, and their refrain A gwaedd y bechgyn lond y gwynt Drowned by the anguish of the young A’u gwaed yn gymysg efo’r glaw Whose blood is mingled with the rain Gareth Madge OBE Chair, First World War Project Group 4 SERVICE OF COMMEMORATION 191 7 ROLL OF HONOUR 13TH APRIL PC William Jones Thomas (Glamorgan/Welsh Guards) 4TH MAY PC Milton Horace Wood (Cardiff/Royal Army Medical Corps) 30TH MAY PC Evan Jones (Glamorgan/Welsh Regiment) 26TH JUNE PC Arnold Dickens (Glamorgan/Welsh Regiment) 24TH JULY PC William Syphas (Glamorgan/Royal Garrison Artillery) 1ST AUGUST PC Richard Drew (Cardiff/Welsh Regiment) 13TH AUGUST PC Reginald Charles (Glamorgan/Welsh Regiment) 15TH AUGUST PC Frank Coffey (Swansea/Welsh Regiment) 4TH SEPTEMBER PC Percy John Marks (Cardiff/Welsh Guards) 17TH SEPTEMBER PS James Robert Angus (Glamorgan/South Wales Borderers) 19TH NOVEMBER PC Thomas Thomas (Glamorgan/Welsh Regiment) 23RD NOVEMBER PC Arthur Hopkins (Glamorgan/Royal Welsh Fusiliers) 27TH NOVEMBER PC John Evans (Glamorgan/Irish Guards) 1ST DECEMBER PC Ronald Evans (Glamorgan/ Welsh Guards) 9TH DECEMBER PC Edward Price Evans (Glamorgan/Welsh Guards) We remember them with pride. Yn angof ni chant fod. 5 SERVICE OF COMMEMORATION Chaplain We pray now for this nation, giving thanks for it’s traditions of freedom and democracy. Remembering the part we have played in peace and conflict over many decades in all parts of the world. Especially remembering all those who laid down their lives to attain this freedom. We pray too that in harmony and truth we may continue to seek the way of peace, joining our prayers together as we say the Lords Prayer. Chaplain Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name; thy kingdom come; thy will be done; on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespasss against us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen BLESSING A r c h b i s h o p Go forth into the world in peace, ‘Be of good of Wales courage, hold fast to that which is good,’ render to no one evil for evil. Support the weak, help the afflicted love and serve the Lord and may the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God and the Fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you and all whom you love, now and always. Amen 6 HEDDLU DE CYMRU • SOUTH WALES POLICE SERVICE OF RE-DEDICATION & REMEMBRANCE NEW MEMORIAL GARDEN POLICE HEADQUARTERS BRIDGEND 10TH NOVEMBER 2017 CADW DE CYMRU’N DDIOGEL 7• KEEPING SOUTH WALES SAFE SERVICE OF RE-DEDICATION & REMEMBRANCE ACT OF RE-DEDICATION OF THE NEW FORCE MEMORIAL GARDEN Chaplain We will shortly hold our Act of Remembrance for those who have died whilst serving with South Wales Police but before doing so I will call upon the Archbishop of Wales, the Most Reverend John Davies, to Re-Dedicate the Force Memorial Garden in its new location. After that, and the Act of Remembrance, we will all proceed to the Memorial Sundial where the Chief Constable will lay a wreath.
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