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Issue 94 October - November 2018
Lest we forget
● European Crisis Redcar Territorials Leaving ▲
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came across this unique picture the other day; forgive the quality, but it chimes well with another picture I sent off to Coastal View in August 2014, and which showed fresh-faced young army volunteers getting equipment on to horse-drawn carts ready to be shipped to Redcar train station en route for France. Today's picture is one of a victory parade taken in Loftus and taken in the hours or days following the signing of the Armistice on Monday, the November 11th 1918. A scan of the local press in that week did not record this parade, and indeed nothing was found relating to East Cleveland at all, but it was clear that these processions did happen everywhere and were near spontaneous. What was reported was that shops were sold out of sheets, church peels were rung from bell tower to bell tower and that services in churches
of all denominations were hurriedly organised. Town bands such as the Redcar Town Band led the procession there, and I imagine in East Cleveland, the hands of the various Miners Lodges were pressed into service. But amidst the joy, there was also sadness for those who had left home and would now, never return. So this year's Remembrance Day will be an important one, marking the centenary of what sadly mistakenly - was seen as the "War to End All Wars". Disability permitting, I hope to be at the North Skelton cenotaph, and that many hundreds of other local men women and children will be at memorials in towns and villages across the circulation area of Coastal View. So if you care for our armed forces, be there and share on that Sunday. (Councillor) David Walsh
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