Rememberance Day – Denaby Main

1926

Mexborough & Swinton Times November 12, 1926

Rememberance Day
Denaby Main

A special service was held in the Hepworth Hall, Denaby, on Sunday morning, and was attended by members of the British Legion and the Boy Scouts. The sermon was preached by the J. E. Riley, superintendent of the Yorkshire coalfields mission, and the meeting was accompanied by an orchestra, led by Mr J. H. Brocklesby.

During the service, the orchestra played the Pastoral Symphony from “the Messiah.” And Armistice commemoration service will be held at the parish church on Sunday, and public bodies are invited to attend officially. A procession will assemble at the ambulance club at 10 o’clock. Relatives of the fallen are asked to be in their places in church at 10.15 in a reference to Armistice Day on Sunday evening. The vicar of Denaby, the rev H. Lee, said that, amid the depressing difficulties and trials of the time, people had got into the habit of exclaiming “what a country!” Forgetting that the country is what we make it. And that it is up to us to love it and to serve it better. A short service was held in the parish church on Thursday, and was conducted by the vicar.