Over 300 people crowded into Cookham's Holy Trinity for the annual Service of Remembrance on Sunday 12 November 2006, Led by the Cubs, Scouts, Guides and Brownies, the congregation were. delighted to be joined as well by the League of Frontiersmen, founded by Cookham Dean's Roger Pocock a century ago. The Frontiersmen came from Bristol, Liverpool and London to lead the service.

 

The cubs and scouts  read out the personal tales of some of the fallen whose relatives are still in the village.

 

Father Michael Smith led the Act of Remembrance at Cookham War memorial and read out all 88 names on the cenotaph of Cookham men who died in the two World Wars.

 

Councillor John Stretton led the commission - "they shall not grow old as we that are left grow old..."

 

Wreathes were laid by the Royal British legion,  Parish Council, PC Valentine de Haan (Cookham's police officer) the cubs (who made their own wreath of 88 poppies representing every man on the memorial.

    

 

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remembrance day 2006 007 Joe Bright and Cameron Whitelaw had interviewed old men in Cookham who remembered bombs dropping on the village during the Second World War.

 

   

remembrance day 2006 010 Members of the scouts read out the true stories of local men who fell in the World Wars in Scarpa Flow, in the Atlantic and in an airborne attack on the Rhine

 

   

remembrance day 2006 011 Members of the scouts read out the true stories of local men who fell in the World Wars in Scarpa Flow, in the Atlantic and in an airborne attack on the Rhine.

 

Click here to see and hear the bugler - Andy Congdon