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The singing of the hymns will be accompanied by a contingent of The Band of the Felixstowe Salvation Army Corp. Felixstowe Town Council Wreaths will be laid by and on behalf of Deputy Lieutenant of Suffolk Civic Service Mayor of Felixstowe – Felixstowe Town Council War Widows Association Royal British Legion of Remembrance Royal British Legion – Women’s Section Royal British Legion – Riders Branch Submariners Old Comrades Association RAF Regiment Association Royal Green Jacket Association Sunday Suffolk and Royal Anglian Regiment Old Comrades Association Royal Artillery Association 13 November HM Coastguard Merchant Navy Association 2016 TS Landguard Sea Cadets 356 (Felixstowe) Squadron Air Cadets Felixstowe Detachment Royal Artillery, Suffolk Army Cadet Force Colneis Division Girlguiding 9.45am Orwell District Scouts Felixstowe Academy St John’s Church Suffolk County Council Suffolk Constabulary Orwell Road Suffolk Fire and Rescue Service Seafarers UK Felixstowe Seafarers Mission followed by Felixstowe St John Ambulance Parish of Felixstowe, St John with St Edmund St Felix Catholic Church Salvation Army 10.50am Temple of Light Christian Spiritualist Church Felixstowe Masonic Lodge The War Royal Ancient Order of Buffalos Memorial Words to Hymns and Songs are reproduced with permission under CCLI No: 69728 Felixstowe Sea Front Typeset & printed by [email protected] o Tel & Txt: 07802 397905 Gathering of Civic Officials Ode of Remembrance They shall grow not old as we that are left grow old. Welcome Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. by the Reverend Andrew Dotchin At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them. Hymn We will remember them. During the singing of this hymn the standards are brought forward All people that on earth do dwell, The Kohima Epitaph Sing to the Lord with cheerful voice. When you go home, tell them of us and say Him serve with fear, His praise forth tell; For your tomorrow, we gave our today. Come ye before Him and rejoice. The Lord, ye know, is God indeed; Reveille Without our aid He did us make; We are His folk, He doth us feed, Wreath Laying And for His sheep He doth us take. Prayers O enter then His gates with praise; Approach with joy His courts unto; Hymn Praise, laud, and bless His Name always, Now thank we all our God, O may this bounteous God For it is seemly so to do. With hearts, and hands, and voices; Through all our life be near us, For why? the Lord our God is good; Who wondrous things hath done, With ever-joyful hearts His mercy is for ever sure; In whom His world rejoices; And blessed peace to cheer us, His truth at all times firmly stood, Who, from our mothers’ arms And keep us in His grace, And shall from age to age endure. Hath blessed us on our way And guide us when perplexed, To Father, Son and Holy Ghost, With countless gifts of love, And free us from all ills The God Whom Heaven and earth adore, And still is our today. In this world and the next. From men and from the angel host All praise and thanks to God Be praise and glory evermore. The Father now be given, The Son, and Him who reigns The Bidding Prayer With them in highest heaven: and the Lord’s Prayer The one, eternal God, Whom earth and heaven adore; Let us pray for all who suffer as a result of conflict, For thus it was, is now, and ask that God may give us peace: And shall be evermore. For service men and women who have died in the violence of war, each one remembered by and known to God; The Blessing 2 11 At the Town War Memorial, Felixstowe Sea Front For those who love them in death as in life, offering the distress of our grief and the sadness of our loss; Bidding Prayer For all members of the armed forces who are in danger this day, Hymn remembering family, friends and all who pray for their safe return; O God, our help in ages past, For civilian women, children and men whose lives Our hope for years to come, are disfigured by war or terror, calling to mind in penitence Our shelter from the stormy blast, the anger and hatreds of humanity; And our eternal home. For peacemakers and peacekeepers, Under the shadow of Thy throne, who seek to keep this world secure and free; Thy saints have dwelt secure: For all who bear the burden and privilege of leadership, Sufficient is Thine arm alone, asking for gifts of wisdom and resolve in the search And our defence is sure. for reconciliation and peace; Before the hills in order stood, All our prayers we bring together in the words which Jesus taught: Or earth received her frame, From everlasting Thou art God, Our Father, who art in heaven, To endless years the same. hallowed be thy name; A thousand ages in Thy sight thy kingdom come; thy will be done; Are like an evening gone; on earth as it is in heaven. Short as the watch that ends the night Give us this day our daily bread. Before the rising sun. And forgive us our trespasses, O God, our help in ages past, as we forgive those who trespass against us. Our hope for years to come, And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil. Be Thou our guide while troubles last, For thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory, And our eternal home. for ever and ever. Amen. The Act of Remembrance led by Revd Mark Kichenside, Chaplain to the Royal British Legion, Felixstowe Reading Let us remember before God, and commend to his sure keeping: those who Romans Chapter 8, verses 31-39 have died for their country in war; those whom we knew and whose memory The Mayor of Felixstowe, Councillor Jan Garfield. we treasure; and all who have lived and died in the service of humankind. At the end the reader says Last Post This is the Word of the Lord Silence Thanks be to God 10 3 Hymn The National Anthem God save our gracious Queen, And did those feet in ancient time long live our noble Queen walk upon England‘s mountains green? God save the Queen. And was the holy Lamb of God Send her victorious, on England‘s pleasant pastures seen? happy and glorious, And did the countenance divine long to reign over us: shine forth upon our clouded hills? God save the Queen And was Jerusalem builded here among those dark satanic mills? Thy choicest gifts in store, on her be pleased to pour, Bring me my bow of burning gold! long may she reign: Bring me my arrows of desire! may she defend our laws, Bring me my spear! O clouds unfold! and ever give us cause Bring me my chariot of fire! to sing with heart and voice I will not cease from mental fight, God save the Queen! nor shall my sword sleep in my hand, till we have built Jerusalem The Blessing in England‘s green and pleasant land. May God grant to the living, grace; to the departed, rest; to the Church, the Queen, the Commonwealth, and all people, peace and concord; We Will Remember Them and to us and all his servants, life everlasting. Readings are from the Royal British Legion CD “We Will Remember Them’. And the blessing of God almighty, An offering will be taken in aid of the Royal British Legion’s Poppy Appeal during Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, these readings come down upon you and remain with you always. Reality in Afghanistan Amen Read by Richard Baker My pain feels cold and selfish After this service please proceed to the War Memorial on the Sea Front My anguish very small for the Act of Remembrance My reality insignificant the Order of Service for which follows Compared to ones that fall Young men with broken bodies Their Comrades lie in sacks Devastated parents Their sons will not come back. 4 9 Hymn My pain will ease and lessen During the singing of this hymns the standards are returned My anguish slip away Reality in Afghanistan Eternal Father, strong to save, Two brave men died today Whose arm hath bound the restless wave, Young men with shell-shocked faces Who bid’st the mighty ocean deep Growing old before their time Its own appointed limits keep; Are living breathing testament O hear us when we cry to thee, To this shallow pain of mine. for those in peril on the sea. I wrote this poem when I was in Camp Bastion in Afghanistan, working for the O Christ, the Universal Lord, NAAFI. I was wallowing in self-pity as my partner had just sent me a ‘Dear John’ who suffered death by nails and sword, e-mail. All those helicopters coming in with the dead and wounded moved me from all assault of deadly foe greatly and put my own small problems into perspective. I am proud to have sustain thy soldiers where they go; served our brave service men and women in Afghanistan in my own small way. and evermore hold in thy hand Phil Williams all those in peril on the land. O Holy Spirit, Lord of grace Who fills with strength the human race; At Daybreak Inspire mankind to know the right, Read by Joanna Lumley Guide all who dare the eagle’s flight; And underneath thy wings of care I listen for him through the rain, Guard all from peril in the air.