University to mark Armistice Day
10 Nov 2015
Help us pay tribute to those lost in war
The University will mark Armistice Day with a two-minute silence at 11am on Wednesday, 11 November at a variety of locations across campus and a special event organised by our Heritage team.
Armistice Day sees the nation fall silent for two minutes at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month – the moment the Allies of World War I and Germany signed the armistice and ceased hostilities on the Western Front in 1918 – to pay tribute to those who lost their lives then and in wars that have happened since.
Colleagues will observe the two-minute silence at various points across the campus, such as in the Old Quad outside the John Owens Building.
In the Martin Harris Centre, our Music students will play The Last Post – a bugle call used in the British Army camps to signal the close of a day of battle, to let those who were still out and wounded or separated that the fighting was done and to follow the sound of the call to find safety and rest – before the two-minute silence is held at 11am.
In the afternoon, there will be an event as part the University’s World War One centenary activities, focusing on the stories behind the University’s memorials to those lost during the conflict.
Pen Richardson, who has been researching the biographies of those listed in the University’s Roll of Honour and on its memorials, will describe how the individual stories of over 600 individuals lost by the University during the War are being uncovered throughout the centenary period and published in the month they died 100 years ago.
She will be joined by Susan Pares, the great niece of Gertrude Powicke, an early female graduate of the University, who worked for the Friends’ War Victims’ Relief Committee and died of typhus in Warsaw in December 1919.
More information
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