Leader’s Blog: this weekend’s Remembrance events

The first was today at County Hall. An annual Remembrance event is always held in the Common Hall on 11 November or the closest working day to that date. That was today and as ever it was a sombre and fitting occasion with many members of staff no doubt thinking about their Parents, Grandparents or other relatives who have may have involved in any of the great conflicts of the 20^th or early 21^st centuries

The second will be at Woodstock on Sunday when I will be one of those privileged to lay a wreath in memory of those from my local part of Oxfordshire who gave their lives for their country.

With my part of the world being Winston Churchill’s former area and with Blenheim Palace being in the vicinity I always feel that there is a particular resonance about the event in Woodstock, albeit we are no more or less important than any similar event across the nation.

As ever, there will be men and women well in to their seventies or older who have first-hand memories of World War Two and there will be descendants of others representing Dads, Uncles, Brothers, Sisters, Aunts and Mothers who did their bit for King or Queen and country in times gone by.

It is those people whom we are honouring and it is those people who have a special and permanent part in the history of the United Kingdom.