How is Suffolk County Council going to mark the centenary of
the outbreak of World War One in 2014?
This was a question put to the Leader of the Council at
Thursday’s Council Meeting. He responded
that events would be planned not just for next year, but during the three that
follow.
Some 10,000 men from Suffolk
died in the Great War, and six men born in Suffolk were awarded the Victoria Cross. Included in their number was Skipper Thomas
Crisp, pictured here, Crisp was born in Lowestoft, and he received the award
posthumously for his brave defence of his small armed fishing boat against a
German submarine. The full story can be read on Wikipedia.
The County Council is working with the Military Covenant Group
and the Suffolk Strategic Heritage Forum to plan a range of commemorative events
across the county. It is hoped that the
community will be closely involved and
that the events will be informed by research that is being carried out at the
Suffolk Record Office. The archive of
the Suffolk Regiment, held in Bury St Edmunds, is likely to be of importance.
There will also be projects to raise awareness in schools and colleges, a
touring exhibition, and the display of newly digitised material on the SCC
website.
On a related topic, Remembrance Sunday is nearly upon us
once again. In anticipation of this, I
was pleased to be able to buy a most unusual
poppy yesterday in the community shop in Monks Eleigh. It is hand made in wool by a relative of a
local resident and, while being unmistakeably a poppy, is certainly unusual. I am looking forward to wearing it with
pride.
This is I believe the 900th post on this website since the blog started in February 2007.
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