Children create Armistice Day display for HMS Collingwood

CHILDREN have created a display to commemorate Armistice Day and ensure that despite Covid restrictions, fallen heroes will not be forgotten.
By Neil Fatkin
Published 6th Nov 2020, 15:03 BST
The 'We Will Remember Them' display produced by children from naval families.The 'We Will Remember Them' display produced by children from naval families.
The 'We Will Remember Them' display produced by children from naval families.

Children from local naval families created the display after Covid restrictions prevented the naval base from hosting its usual ceremony in which people could come together to remember heroes of conflicts gone by.

The display now takes pride of place at HMS Collingwood.

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The initiative was coordinated by Aggies, a charity that supports sailors, marines and their families.

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The children put together pieces of artwork based on the theme remembrance which were then delivered to Chaplaincy at HMS Collingwood to be put on display under the banner “We Will Remember Them”.

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The charity’s families pastoral worker, Alex Watts, who led the project, said: ‘The Naval Chaplaincy team and Aggies work together to support serving personnel and their families especially in such challenging times and are always available to offer help.

‘I would just like to say thank you to the families who used half term to create something so special.’

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