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UK Remembrance Wreath Uses Bermuda Flora
A wreath laid at the UK Cenotaph on behalf of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office for Remembrance Day was made of flora representative of the UK Overseas Territories including two varieties from Bermuda. Provided by the Royal Botanic Gardens, known as Kew, the wreath intends to remind Britain that the Commonwealth shares in their act of remembering... Read more of this article
Photos/Video: St George’s Remembrance Event
[Updated with video] This morning [Nov 10] the East End paid tribute to Bermuda’s war veterans with a wreath-laying ceremony to honour those that fought in the two World Wars, including many who made the ultimate sacrifice. The ceremony was held in St George’s Town Square, and wreaths were laid by Governor George Fergusson, Premier Craig Cannonier,... Read more of this article
Recalling Bermuda’s Sacrifice: Two World Wars
In the two World Wars, 1914 – 1918 and 1939 – 1945, around 600 Bermudians volunteered and served overseas in various military contingents, many making the ultimate sacrifice. All the soldiers who went overseas had to volunteer because under Bermuda law of that time, no Bermudian soldier could be sent overseas into a combat zone without a... Read more of this article
Remembrance Day Parade On Monday, Nov 11
The Remembrance Day Parade to commemorate those who served in the two World Wars is scheduled for Monday [Nov 11] at 10.30am. Governor George Fergusson, and the Premier Craig Cannonier will lead the dignitaries in laying wreaths at the Cenotaph also at the War Memorial on the Cabinet Office grounds. Wreaths will also be laid by the Mayor of Hamilton... Read more of this article
Min. Dunkley Receives Poppy From War Veteran
On Wednesday [Nov 6] the Minister of Public Safety Michael Dunkley supported the efforts of the Bermuda Regiment’s Remembrance Day Tag event. Minister Dunkley is pictured receiving a poppy from Ms. Betty Vincent, an 87 year old WW2 veteran, who served in the WRNS at HMS Victory in Portsmouth. After the war, Ms. Vincent held a number of administrative... Read more of this article
Miss Bermuda Hands Out Poppies To Veterans
Miss Bermuda Katherine Arnfield recently visited the Packwood Rest Home, Matilda Smiths and Westmeath Rest Homes to hand poppies out to Bermuda’s War Veterans with the Bermuda Legion in lead up to Remembrance Day on November 11th. Remembrance Day is the culmination of the annual Bermuda Poppy Appeal conducted by the Bermuda Legion that honors... Read more of this article
Bermuda Flag Flies At Spy School Monument
Bermuda’s flag flies over a monument erected at the former site of a top secret World War II [1939-1945] training school in Canada where spies, saboteurs and assassins learned their deadly tradecraft before heading into the field to fight for the Allied cause. Camp X was the unofficial name of a Second World War paramilitary and commando training... Read more of this article
WWII Veteran Philip Lamb Laid To Rest
Philip Lamb — one of four black Bermudians to serve in the Royal Air Force in World War Two [1939-45] — was laid to rest yesterday [May 5] after passing away at the age of 90. Mr. Lamb reached the rank of Leading Aircraftsman with the RAF and lived through a German bombing raid which left him hospitalised with serious injuries. Mr Lamb —... Read more of this article
World War Two Vet Lamb: “A Bermudian Hero”
Philip Lamb — one of four black Bermudians to serve in the Royal Air Force in World War Two [1939-45] — died yesterday [May 2] at the age of 90. One of Bermuda’s oldest surviving war veterans, St. David’s resident Mr. Lamb [pictured] reached the rank of leading aircraftsman with the RAF and among other wartime exploits lived... Read more of this article
Bermuda Factored In 1942 US Invasion Scenario
A World War Two invasion of the US East Coast mounted and coordinated from an Axis base in Nazi-occupied Bermuda sounds like a scenario dreamed up by a science fiction writer — and it was. But when “Life” magazine commissioned novelist Philip Wylie to come up with six variations based on the theme of an imminent German/Italian/Japanese... Read more of this article
In Remembrance, Two Bermudians In France
On 29th May 1916, over 100 Bermudian men who had belonged to the Bermuda Militia Artillery left Bermuda to go to the UK to join in the Great War against the Germans. Before departing Bermuda each man had to agree to volunteer to serve as a member of the Royal Garrison Artillery. By doing this, they effectively left the BMA and joined the UK’s Royal... Read more of this article
Remembrance Day: Wreaths Laid In St George’s
While crowds gathered on Front Street for the Remembrance Day Parade this morning [Nov 11], a smaller group made their way to St George’s Town Square to lay wreaths in remembrance. Those present included St George’s MP Kim Swan, St George’s MP Dame Jennifer Smith, St George’s Mayor Kenny Bascome, war veteran Leroy “Tubby”... Read more of this article
