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We Will Remember Them
We’re pleased to be back serving Seaford with town service 120. Although initially running a reduced number of days, we’ll increase this as soon as we can. Please check the timetables. Owing to government regulations, we can only carry a limited number of passengers on each journey. Please bear with us – the services are generally every 30 minutes. We are grateful to the Town Council for their ongoing support.
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Would you like to drive one of our buses? PCV licenses are not required. All you need is a standard driving licence with a DI classification. Full training and back up are given and you will work with a great team of people. For further details please contact us via: Email: volunteer@ cuckmerebuses.org.uk Telephone: 07802 305155 or 01323 870920 visit us at: www.cuckmerebuses.org.uk
Why do we wear a poppy? Scarlet poppies grow wild all over Western Europe wherever the soil has been disturbed. The battles of the First World War churned up such vast areas of earth that millions of poppies germinated and bloomed, often around the bodies of the fallen soldiers.
A Canadian surgeon called John McRae wrote the poem In Flanders Fields in which the poppies symbolise the deaths of those who fought. It is a haunting memorial to those soldiers who have died in any war.
Why do we have a two-minute silence? It was on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month that the guns of World War I fell silent. Four years of fighting and devastation finally ended. The following year ceremonies of remembrance took place on what was known as Armistice Day. An Australian journalist, Edward George Honey first proposed a respectful silence to remember the dead. He wrote a letter to the London Evening News, which was brought to the attention of King George V. The king then issued a proclamation which called for a two-minute silence.
These days Armistice Day is known as Remembrance Sunday and is a chance to honour the fallen soldiers of all conflicts.
Sarah Davey
DECEmbEr ISSUE DEADLINE: FrIDAy 6th NovEmbEr
