Remembrance
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The 2018 Service of Remembrance. Image credit: Creative Skies
Remembrance Sunday in Thame
The Service of Remembrance will take place on Sunday 10 November 2024, starting at 10.30am in car park at Town Hall ready to process to the Memorial Gardens.
On Armistice Day, Monday 11 November 2024, the Royal British Legion will be selling poppies, along with the cadet forces around the town. A trumpeter has been organised to play last post and reveille to enable the community to observe the two minutes silence at 11am outside the Town Hall.
HRH The Duke of Gloucester Visits Thame
On Tuesday 11th June 2024, His Royal Highness The Duke of Gloucester, visited Thame, Oxfordshire for a ceremony to mark the unveiling of an additional thirty names on the Thame War Memorial. It was attended by around 300 people.
The additional names were uncovered after many years of research by the Thame Remembers Project. Students from Lord Williams’s School read the names of the thirty men during the proceedings, while the Army Cadet Force and 594 (Thame) Royal Air Cadets provided a guard of honour around the War Memorial and unveiled a new display board. A copy of the “Thame Remembers Book, “The Fallen” was presented to His Royal Highness by a 7- and 8-year-old. The event concluded with a chinook flypast.
The Thame Remembers Project was established to research the names of all of those listed on Thame’s war memorials. The Project also challenged locals to visit the graves or battlefield memorials of the town’s war dead. As a result, over 300 people from Thame travelled more than 150,000 miles to commemorate 212 men covering 23 countries, 4 continents, 165 soldiers, 18 sailors, 28 airmen, 1 diplomat, and five conflicts – the Boer War, World War 1, World War 2, the Korean War, and Cyprus Conflict.