Down by Campbeltown Loch the red poppies blow
IN STEADY persistent rain the Kintyre Schools Pipe Band led this year’s Remembrance parade.
Immediately behind were the commanding officers of HMS Hurworth and HMS Pembroke, Lieutenant Commander David Loin and Lt Cmdr Jim Lovell respectively and their crews and members from Campbeltown Royal British Legion Scotland.
The following organisations were represented in the parade: Royal Air Force Association, Police Scotland, Scot- tish Ambulance Service, HM Coastguard, Red Cross, Salvation Army, RNLI, Harbour Master, British Red Cross, SSAFA, Campbeltown Grammar School, Campbeltown Sea Cadets, Army Cadet Force, Boys Brigade, The Scout Association, Girlguiding and the Fire Cadets.
All the above organisations laid a wreath and in addition wreaths were laid by: The Depute Lieutenant of Argyll and Bute, Kenneth MacNab, MBE, Argyll and Bute Council, Kintyre Veterans To- gether, Campbeltown Community Council, SFRS, Salvation Army, the Harbour master, Royal Chapter, St Kieran’s 158, Orange Lodge Campbeltown and the Rotary Club Campbeltown.
Making the Call to Remembrance, Reverend William Crossan said: ‘The names on the war memorial here are, to most of us, the names of strangers. To a few of us, perhaps, the names of family members.
‘But each of them was a person, a young man who had his whole life ahead of him before the advent of war.
‘Each name has a story behind it: each name represents a family whose hopes were dashed; each speaks of a future unfulfilled.
‘To forget all that would be to dishonour their sacrifice.
‘In gratitude, therefore, let us remember them this morning.’
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