Liverpool City Council's remembrance Sunday service, time, programme and speakers
Liverpool City Council’s annual Remembrance Service will take place on the plateau at St George’s Hall.
The Band of The Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment and The Pipes and Drums of The Liverpool Scottish Regimental Associationwill play from 10.40am, in the run up to the start of the service.
There will be readings and prayers from The Bishop of Liverpool, the Rt Revd Dr John Perumbalath, and The Archbishop of Liverpool, The Most Reverend Malcolm McMahon.
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This year’s guest speaker is Tracy Dunn-Bridgeman, who lost her son, Kingsman Jason Dunn-Bridgeman, in the war in Afghanistan in 2009. He died while serving with the 2nd Battalion of The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment when his platoon became locked in an exchange of fire with the enemy during a foot patrol in the Babaji district of Helmand province. Tracy was later presented with Merseyside’s first Elizabeth Cross in honour of her son’s bravery.
During the ceremony, Deb Mills-Burns, a military veteran and author, who is part of the ‘Stand by Her’ programme, delivered by Everton in the Community, will read a poem she has written, titled ‘My Liverpool Home’. Launched in May by the official charity of Everton Football Club, Stand by Her has been designed specifically to support female veterans and provides participants with the opportunity to reconnect socially and helps to improve their physical health through sport and holistic methods as well as offering signposting and access to mental, physical and social health services.
Father Taras Khomych representing the Ukrainian Catholic Church will lay a wreath to UK
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