Remembrance 2020

As with everything else in 2020, Remembrance Sunday and Armistice Day have not been as we expected. However, the REME family made sure they remembered the men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice for their country.

Al Stevens and his wife, Helen, marked Remembrance

Sunday from their front door in Somerset Ian Smith and his granddaughter held their two minutes of silence outside their home in Overbrae Gardenstown

Major (Retd) Neil Graham and his wife Anne (former WRAC attached to the Royal Signals) at Dunkeld Cathedral, Perthshire, Scotland. The Scottish Horse plaque is associated with 655 Sqn

AAC, where Maj (Retd) Graham served in the LAD 16 Regt RA Wksp personnel carried out the act of

Remembrance, honouring the memory of the fallen

Train Driver and REME Association

Scotland Branch Secretary, Tom

Hardie laid a wreath on behalf of the

Branch at the memorial in George

Square, Glasgow in his work uniform Lt Col (Retd) Tony Workman marked Remembrance from his home in Andover

Andy Carne laid the REME Association Scotland wreath at the Edinburgh City Chambers memorial

Former LCpl Robert Fraser remembered our fallen this year with his father, Former KOSB Sgt Ian Fraser, at his family home in Motherwell. The family later visited the Duchess of Hamilton Park to lay their crosses

“They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them.” From ‘For the Fallen’, by Laurence Binyon

Former ASM Keith Fisher placed a poppy on the grave of Private LH Macgregor REME in the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery in Portsdown

Corps Piper, Artificer SSgt Scott McCurdie from 2 CS Bn REME, played for Remembrance during a pause in Ex OUTBACK STALLION Philip Rolfe, South West Durham Branch President, outside of his home on Remembrance Branch President Maurice Hope just before he laid the Branch wreath at Stoke Cenotaph