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The heart of London on a still autumn morning, familiar landmarks, | :00:18. | :00:25. | |
Westminster Abbey to the left and to the right the Palace of Westminster. | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
And down below Whitehall leading up to the Cenotaph. | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
Around this Portland Stone memorial, crowds are gathered, as they have | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
been every year for nearly 100 years, to remember and pay homage to | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
the British and Commonwealth forces killed in two World Wars | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
This year, after 13 years and over 450 deaths, British combat forces | :00:47. | :00:55. | |
were withdrawn from Afghanistan, but there as elsewhere in the world, | :00:56. | :01:05. | |
members of the Armed Forces remain - often in peril, always at risk. | :01:06. | :01:16. | |
Just a few weeks ago, Alan Scott | :01:17. | :01:18. | |
and Geraint Roberts were killed in a helicopter crash in Kabul. | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
And Lance Corporal Michael Campbell died earlier this year | :01:23. | :01:24. | |
after an injury in Afghanistan three years ago. | :01:25. | :01:31. | |
The Cenotaph was erected in 1920 to serve as a memorial for the dead | :01:32. | :01:36. | |
of the First World War, the war which changed the nature of war, | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
And now, nearly 100 years on, just as we did last year and will again | :01:41. | :01:54. | |
next year, we have, as a nation, been remembering those times. | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
At the War Graves Cemetery in Brookwood near Woking, | :02:00. | :02:01. | |
a new memorial to those killed in the First World War was unveiled | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
a few days ago by the Duke of Kent, president of the | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
of 264 men previously without memorials. | :02:08. | :02:24. | |
It ranged from John Nixon Brown, killed the day after Britain | :02:25. | :02:27. | |
declared war on Germany in 1914, to Clarence Edgar Morgan, | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
who died the very day the Armistice was signed four years later. | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
A place for families to come and remember. | :02:36. | :02:52. | |
Thousands of veterans have gathered in Horse Guards Parade, | :02:53. | :02:54. | |
Beyond the Cenotaph, up towards Trafalgar Square, they will line up | :02:55. | :03:19. | |
in seven columns waiting to march beside the memorial of the women | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
at war, past the Cenotaph, each contingent | :03:25. | :03:26. | |
Some come back year after year to share private memories | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
Often to march in memory of a father, mother, | :03:32. | :03:43. | |
grandfather or grandmother in honour of their service during the war. | :03:44. | :03:50. | |
The ceremony we will see here today differs very little from the | :03:51. | :03:58. | |
familiar scene. Her Majesty The Queen will lay a wreath on behalf of | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
the nation after the two-minute silence. There is a small change | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
this year, King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands is going to be here | :04:09. | :04:15. | |
laying a wreath after her marking the 70th anniversary of the | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
liberation of Holland in 1945. And then other members of the Royal | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
family will lay wreaths into macro groups rather than simply and senior | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
members of the Armed Forces will lay wreaths, politicians, High | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
Commissioners from the Commonwealth will lay there is too. The Massed | :04:33. | :04:39. | |
Bands under the Senior Director of Music playing here for the first | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
time raises his baton to start with as always Rule Britannia. | :04:44. | :05:21. | |
The Skye Boat Song played by the pipes and drums of the Black Watch. | :05:22. | :06:30. | |
The Senior Drum Major, Scott Fitzgerald of the | :06:31. | :06:56. | |
Coldstream Guards, brings the parade to attention and the Massed Bands | :06:57. | :06:58. | |
The numbers of the dead counted on this Remembrance Sunday is | :06:59. | :07:25. | |
always shocking and of course is the source of our | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
public grief, but every death is a place for private grieving. | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
Corporal Liam Riley served with the 3rd Battalion of the | :07:33. | :07:34. | |
Yorkshire Regiment, he died in Afghanistan in 2010. | :07:35. | :07:37. | |
He was killed by an IED, an explosive device planted | :07:38. | :07:40. | |
If ever you asked him what he was going to be when he grew up, he said | :07:41. | :07:48. | |
I will be a soldier, I will be in the army, and he never wavered. | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
He used to say, I'm going to be a soldier, I'm going to be a soldier. | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
My big brother Liam was a tall, friendly, loving guy who was just | :07:59. | :08:10. | |
He was really a high-flying young man in the Army. | :08:11. | :08:17. | |
But when he came home, he just left the Army behind him | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
He'd missed going with his regiment because he was doing | :08:22. | :08:34. | |
his Corporal's course and the Army wouldn't release him to go. | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
He actually came home and said, "How do they expect me to train other | :08:39. | :08:45. | |
young soldiers to go to Afghanistan when I've not been myself?" | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
And he was that adamant that he wanted to go. | :08:50. | :08:52. | |
And I think they let him go under pressure, to be honest. | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
After I'd got the news that Liam had died, my initial thoughts were, | :08:58. | :09:00. | |
I don't know how anybody goes on, losing a child, because it broke | :09:01. | :09:24. | |
But to lose a child, it's terrible. | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
On Remembrance Sunday, we go and visit his grave and give flowers | :09:30. | :09:32. | |
It's such an emotional day, but it's fulfilling for me in the fact | :09:33. | :09:43. | |
that you see people remembering not just my son, but all those who have | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
Remembrance Sunday's changed for me now because it's more poignant now. | :09:47. | :09:55. | |
You've got one of your own that you've got to remember. | :09:56. | :10:02. | |
And you're thankful that people do remember. | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
And I hope they carry on remembering. | :10:07. | :10:08. | |
I felt proper proud of Liam that he wanted to do the Army really bad | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
And it makes me very proud to say that he went out there | :10:14. | :10:19. | |
You've got to have them memories and have them good memories. | :10:20. | :10:27. | |
And I've got a photo of him - me, Liam and his granddad. | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
I sit here in the kitchen and his photo's there. | :10:34. | :10:36. | |
And I salute him every morning and I salute him every night. | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
And now Edward Elgar's haunting Nimrod The Hunter. | :10:40. | :11:14. | |
MUSIC: Nimrod by Elgar | :11:15. | :15:54. | |
The clergy procession leavig the Foreign and Commonwealth Office | :15:55. | :15:56. | |
building, and the Bishop of London, the Right Reverend Richard Chartres. | :15:57. | :15:58. | |
Then the Major General, two mounted regiments of Household | :15:59. | :16:01. | |
Cavalry, Major General Edwards Smith Osman and Mike Wilmot. | :16:02. | :16:03. | |
Then the politicians come out led by David Cameron, the Prime Minister. | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
Those familiar faces from the House of Commons, Tony Blair, John Major, | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
They take their place to one side, Jeremy Corbyn, the Leader of the | :16:12. | :16:21. | |
Opposition, standing next to the Prime Minister, and Angus Robertson | :16:22. | :16:27. | |
from the Scottish National Party, Jim Fallon of the Liberal Democrats, | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
The Chief of Defence Staff, Sir Nicholas Houghton, | :16:32. | :16:40. | |
the First Sea Lord Chief, Admiral Sir George Zambellas, | :16:41. | :16:42. | |
General Nicholas Carter, and Chief of the Air Staff, Andrew Pulford. | :16:43. | :16:50. | |
And with them there the ambassador from Ireland. | :16:51. | :16:57. | |
And now the procession of High Commissioners from the Commonwealth, | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
46 in all, laying wreaths, each of them, on behalf of their countries, | :17:03. | :17:09. | |
most of whom played a part in the First and Second World Wars, some of | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
whom were absolutely crucial to victory, the Commonwealth countries, | :17:14. | :17:30. | |
Religious dominations emerging from the doorway. -- denominations. A | :17:31. | :17:39. | |
group that has gradually grown over the years. On the balcony, the Queen | :17:40. | :17:52. | |
of the Netherlands, Queen Maxima, next to the Duchess of Cambridge. | :17:53. | :18:01. | |
There's Tim Laurence, the Princess Royal's husband, and the Countess of | :18:02. | :18:02. | |
Wessex, on the right. There's silence now, as we wait for | :18:03. | :18:57. | |
the royal party. Her Majesty the Queen with, | :18:58. | :19:14. | |
beside her, the King of the And other members of the Royal | :19:15. | :19:16. | |
family, the Duke of Cambridge, Prince Henry of Wales, | :19:17. | :19:22. | |
the Duke Of York, the Duke of Kent, It is now just a few moments | :19:23. | :19:28. | |
before Big Ben chimes Last Post sounded, | :19:29. | :19:39. | |
the gunfire at the end of the two minutes' silence, and the Queen lays | :19:40. | :23:57. | |
her wreath on behalf of the nation. And now the King of the Netherlands | :23:58. | :24:28. | |
is handed his wreath by a general of the Royal Netherlands Army, | :24:29. | :24:33. | |
laying this wreath in commemoration His great-grandmother, Wilhelmina, | :24:34. | :24:38. | |
took refuge here during the And now the Duke of Edinburgh, | :24:39. | :24:50. | |
who served with distinction The other members of the Royal | :24:51. | :24:58. | |
family will lay their wreaths The Duke of Cambridge, Prince Henry | :24:59. | :25:18. | |
of Wales and the Duke of York first. All of whom have seen service | :25:19. | :25:32. | |
in the armed forces, the Duke of York in the Falklands, Prince | :25:33. | :25:35. | |
Henry in the Blues and Royals, the Duke of Cambridge in the Household | :25:36. | :25:40. | |
Cavalry, the Royal Air Force, and Then the next group of three, | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
the Earl of Wessex, the Princess The Earl of Wessex, an honorary | :25:45. | :25:51. | |
colonel of the Wessex Yeomanry. And the parade will be called to | :25:52. | :25:59. | |
stand at ease, and then the Prime Minister will be the first of | :26:00. | :26:26. | |
the politicians to lay his wreath. There has been some discussion | :26:27. | :26:40. | |
about which politicians should lay wreaths and in which order, | :26:41. | :26:47. | |
but it emerges that any politician leading a party with six members | :26:48. | :26:51. | |
in the House of Commons is entitled So the Prime Minister lays | :26:52. | :26:58. | |
his wreath, and he will be followed by Jeremy Corbyn, the new official | :26:59. | :27:07. | |
Leader of the Opposition. After him, Angus Robertson from the | :27:08. | :27:33. | |
Scottish National Party, who lays a wreath on behalf of the SNP and also | :27:34. | :27:38. | |
Plaid Cymru, the Welsh nationalists. Tim Farron for the | :27:39. | :27:56. | |
Liberal Democrats. Nigel Dodds, | :27:57. | :28:15. | |
the leader of the Democratic And the Secretary of State | :28:16. | :28:17. | |
for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Philip | :28:18. | :28:45. | |
Hammond, laying this wreath on of 14 overseas territories, | :28:46. | :28:47. | |
Gibraltar, Bermuda, the Pitcairn This more extravagant wreath with | :28:48. | :28:49. | |
flowers taken First, the countries that played | :28:50. | :28:57. | |
a huge part in both world wars, Canada and Australia, New Zealand, | :28:58. | :29:08. | |
South Africa and India. India had over 2.5 million | :29:09. | :29:12. | |
volunteers serving in World War II. Canada lost over 100,000 | :29:13. | :29:20. | |
in both world wars. New Zealand, South Africa, | :29:21. | :29:25. | |
30000 and 20,000 dead. The next group is led off | :29:26. | :29:32. | |
by Nigeria, whose 82nd West African Division fought with | :29:33. | :29:42. | |
great distinction in Burma. Cyprus, 30,000 served with | :29:43. | :29:48. | |
the British Army after the German Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Jamaica, | :29:49. | :29:54. | |
which provided naval bases, Trinidad and Tobago, which provided bases for | :29:55. | :30:01. | |
the United States after the deal over destroyers, and Kenya, which | :30:02. | :30:09. | |
fought in East Africa and to have some members here | :30:10. | :30:12. | |
for the first time on parades The next group is led off by Malta, | :30:13. | :30:14. | |
who were awarded the George Cross, whose harbour was | :30:15. | :30:28. | |
so crucial to provide goods during the war in North Africa, | :30:29. | :30:34. | |
and which the Axis bombed Zambia, Singapore, Botswana, | :30:35. | :30:42. | |
Lesotho, Barbados and Mauritius. The Next Group Is Led By Swaziland, | :30:43. | :31:00. | |
Whose King Gathered Together A Group Of Young Men To Go And Fight With | :31:01. | :31:02. | |
Britain In The Second World War. Tonga, Fiji, Bangladesh, | :31:03. | :31:05. | |
the Bahamas governed by the Duke of Windsor, Granada, Papa New Guinea, | :31:06. | :31:08. | |
the Seychelles, the Commonwealth And The Final Group, St Vincent And | :31:09. | :31:14. | |
The Grenadines. Belize, | :31:15. | :31:33. | |
the Maldives, Saint Christopher, Namibia, Cameroon, | :31:34. | :31:39. | |
and finally two members of the Commonwealth who had no colonial | :31:40. | :31:42. | |
link, Rwanda and Mozambique. The next wreath will be laid | :31:43. | :31:47. | |
by the Ambassador from Ireland who served in World War | :31:48. | :32:01. | |
I, of whom 35,000 lost their lives. Admiral Sir George Zambellas, Sir | :32:02. | :32:35. | |
Andrew Pulford And The Chief Of The Defence Staff Standing Just Behind. | :32:36. | :32:39. | |
battle of the Atlantic. Merchant Navy, all important in the | :32:40. | :32:51. | |
The new chair of the National Chief Police Council there. | :32:52. | :32:56. | |
As soon as they are packing their place service begins. | :32:57. | :33:02. | |
O, Almighty God, grant we beseech thee that we who here do honour to | :33:03. | :33:13. | |
the memory of those who have died in the service of their country and of | :33:14. | :33:16. | |
the Crown may be so inspired by the spirit of their love and fortitude | :33:17. | :33:20. | |
that, forgetting all selfish and unworthy motives, | :33:21. | :33:29. | |
we may live only to thy glory and to the service of mankind, | :33:30. | :33:32. | |
# Short as the watch that ends the night | :33:33. | :35:20. | |
# Be thou our guide while troubles last | :35:21. | :35:56. | |
Teach us, good Lord, to serve thee as thou deservest, to give and not | :35:57. | :36:05. | |
to count the cost, to fight and not to heed the wounds, to toil and not | :36:06. | :36:11. | |
to seek for rest, to labour and not ask for any reward, save that of | :36:12. | :36:22. | |
knowing that we will do thy will, through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen. | :36:23. | :36:29. | |
Our Father, which art in Heaven, hallowed be thy name. | :36:30. | :36:39. | |
Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven. | :36:40. | :36:42. | |
Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses | :36:43. | :36:45. | |
as we forgive those who trespass against us. | :36:46. | :36:48. | |
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil, for thine | :36:49. | :36:52. | |
is the kingdom, the power and the glory, for ever and ever, Amen. | :36:53. | :37:00. | |
Unto God's gracious mercy and protection we commit you. | :37:01. | :37:06. | |
The Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious unto you. | :37:07. | :37:17. | |
The Lord lift up the light of his countenance upon you and give | :37:18. | :37:21. | |
The Queen leads the Royal family away | :37:22. | :39:06. | |
from Whitehall, that part of the ceremonial here over. | :39:07. | :39:11. | |
The brief service and the laying of the wreaths. | :39:12. | :39:19. | |
The Duke of Cambridge will be going on to horse guards and he | :39:20. | :39:25. | |
will take the salute of the 10,500 people waiting further up Whitehall | :39:26. | :39:29. | |
They have been watching this service on huge television screens | :39:30. | :39:36. | |
They haven't been missing, they have been taking part, singing | :39:37. | :39:41. | |
goes back to the seventh century. of the Chapel Royal whose history | :39:42. | :40:00. | |
The Sergeant Of The Vestry And The Sub-dean And Bishop Of London, Dr | :40:01. | :40:04. | |
Richard Chartres. And after the clergy, | :40:05. | :40:14. | |
the politicians. The Speaker of the House of Commons | :40:15. | :40:19. | |
on the bottom right of your screen, And After Them The High | :40:20. | :40:22. | |
Commissioners. And shortly there will be space | :40:23. | :40:43. | |
created for the march passed to And the Royal British Legion | :40:44. | :40:48. | |
Scotland represented by Janet Harvey, and the Women's Section, the | :40:49. | :41:54. | |
national chairman, Marilyn Humphrey. The Royal Naval Association with | :41:55. | :41:56. | |
the distinctive wreath in the form In a few moments, | :41:57. | :41:59. | |
the march-past will start, and thousands will pay | :42:00. | :42:15. | |
their respects at the Cenotaph. Among them are veterans | :42:16. | :42:17. | |
of the Second World War, marking the 70th anniversary | :42:18. | :42:20. | |
of the end of this conflict. Four of those who served in that | :42:21. | :42:22. | |
war recall those difficult times. Everybody | :42:23. | :42:35. | |
around me was being called up, and I So I eventually got in the Navy, | :42:36. | :42:39. | |
because I was young and fit I went into the ATS in 1942 and I | :42:40. | :42:46. | |
worked on ack-ack. As a 14-year-old boy, I joined | :42:47. | :42:56. | |
the British Army as a boy soldier. The war started | :42:57. | :43:05. | |
during my boy service. And at 17 and a half, | :43:06. | :43:09. | |
they were desperate for paratroops, I got my wings in February 1943 | :43:10. | :43:12. | |
and was posted to 656 Squadron, the only squadron to be posted to | :43:13. | :43:23. | |
the Far East. We were on the banks of the Humber, | :43:24. | :43:27. | |
and we were defending Hull. You could be in bed, | :43:28. | :43:34. | |
and the alarm would go. You'd jump into your boots | :43:35. | :43:36. | |
and grab your greatcoat. Your steel helmet would be there, | :43:37. | :43:39. | |
and you'd go. Sometimes we were called out three | :43:40. | :43:42. | |
and four times in the night. Hull was the worst-bombed place | :43:43. | :43:45. | |
in Britain that I ever saw. They wanted us to be ready | :43:46. | :43:51. | |
for the invasion of Germany, which You get to your drop zone | :43:52. | :43:59. | |
and you're at the door and out! And you go out of that aeroplane one | :44:00. | :44:07. | |
at a time, bang-bang-bang-bang-bang. When you jump out of an aeroplane, | :44:08. | :44:12. | |
the slipstream gets you, you know. And one got killed right | :44:13. | :44:15. | |
by the side of me, and I thought, We were street-fighting, | :44:16. | :44:30. | |
forest clearing, and that's when I got wounded, and I | :44:31. | :44:46. | |
lost two of my close colleagues. This leg, which was hanging on by a | :44:47. | :44:49. | |
piece of skin, I put on top of this And that's when I injected myself | :44:50. | :44:53. | |
with the morphine, because I knew The night the war ended, | :44:54. | :44:58. | |
I felt a sort of vacuum. the beginning of the end of my Army | :44:59. | :45:09. | |
life. And it changed my whole attitude | :45:10. | :45:14. | |
to ever so many things that I It changes your attitude | :45:15. | :45:17. | |
to all kinds of things. When the Second World War came | :45:18. | :45:24. | |
along, everybody grew up. Or a woman, | :45:25. | :45:27. | |
whichever the case may be. And I think to myself, | :45:28. | :45:31. | |
whatever the Second World War was, They say "War to end all wars", | :45:32. | :45:37. | |
but it never works. And I look back and I think, | :45:38. | :45:45. | |
"Will this world ever be peaceful?" I hope it will be, because it's | :45:46. | :45:49. | |
a wonderful world and everybody I always think | :45:50. | :45:52. | |
of a nameless soldier who had been washed down the Irrawaddy, | :45:53. | :46:01. | |
and his body was lying on the sand. For nearly a couple of weeks, | :46:02. | :46:04. | |
I flew out over him. I mean, there's an awful lot | :46:05. | :46:14. | |
of chaps out there we left behind, The reconnaissance core sets of the | :46:15. | :47:52. | |
march-past. The electrical and mechanical engineers, their job to | :47:53. | :47:57. | |
keep the equipment working. Before them was the armoury -- Army | :47:58. | :48:03. | |
catering Corps, all-important given their role in the front line, and | :48:04. | :48:09. | |
Army remember, marches on its stomach. The Queen Alexandra's | :48:10. | :48:21. | |
nursing Corps, recently deployed in Sierra Leone, where they had a | :48:22. | :48:27. | |
facility to look after people trying to treat those with Ebola. | :48:28. | :48:42. | |
The King's Royal Hussars regimental Association, their 300th | :48:43. | :48:47. | |
anniversary. They were raised in 1715, to counter the Jacobite | :48:48. | :48:52. | |
rebellion will stop they fought at Culloden and Waterloo and the charge | :48:53. | :48:53. | |
of the light Brigade. 606 -- 656 Squadron in their light | :48:54. | :49:13. | |
blue beret is, the reconnaissance Squadron. Served in India, Burma, | :49:14. | :49:19. | |
Java, Burma and melee. More recently, in Libya. | :49:20. | :49:35. | |
The British limbless ex-service men's Association, led by James | :49:36. | :49:42. | |
Chittenden, who served in the Parachutes. The Royal Hospital | :49:43. | :49:45. | |
Chelsea, led by the famous figure of Bill Speakman VC. Famously won | :49:46. | :49:53. | |
Victoria Cross in Korea. He is 88 years old now and was said then | :49:54. | :49:58. | |
after ammunition ran out to throw empty beer bottles at the Chinese | :49:59. | :50:16. | |
forces. the next line is led off by the Royal air forces Association, | :50:17. | :50:19. | |
commemorating their 75th anniversary at the Battle of Britain. Winston | :50:20. | :50:28. | |
Churchill said of that battle, the battle for France is over, the | :50:29. | :50:33. | |
Battle for Britain is about to begin. A famous speech which ended | :50:34. | :50:37. | |
with him saying, this was their finest hour. So the Royal Air Force | :50:38. | :50:46. | |
and the Royal Air Force Regiment Association and the head of the | :50:47. | :50:51. | |
parade that has passed us here has already reached Horse Guards, | :50:52. | :50:53. | |
whether Duke of Cambridge is taking the salute as they go past. They | :50:54. | :50:57. | |
don't just go past the Cenotaph, they go round on the Horse Guards. | :50:58. | :51:03. | |
The Duke will be taking the salute for the next half hour, or three | :51:04. | :51:09. | |
quarters of an hour, as long as it takes, for the eight Squadron | :51:10. | :51:14. | |
Association, eight veterans deployed to France, moved to the Middle East | :51:15. | :51:20. | |
and stayed in the Middle East for 57 years. They have had 100 years of | :51:21. | :51:24. | |
operations overseas, thought to be unique in any air force. The Royal | :51:25. | :51:33. | |
Air Force movements and mobile air movement Squadron, it's called. They | :51:34. | :51:36. | |
are here for the first time this year. They have been working at the | :51:37. | :51:48. | |
Ethiopian famine relief, in 1984. They helped the Russian rescue of | :51:49. | :51:51. | |
the submarine Kursk. The Royal Air Force Police | :51:52. | :52:03. | |
Association, with their white service caps, nicknamed the | :52:04. | :52:14. | |
Snowdrops. Established back in 1918. The Not Forgotten Association. | :52:15. | :52:29. | |
John Brunell Cohen, who landed on Juno Beach in 1944. This Not | :52:30. | :52:36. | |
Forgotten Association is one of the oldest of the charities. There are | :52:37. | :52:41. | |
various charities here today. They are representing all the services. | :52:42. | :52:48. | |
The soldiers, sailors, airmen and families Association, who suffer | :52:49. | :52:54. | |
their 130th anniversary. Leading it, Kevin, who served in the Middle | :52:55. | :52:59. | |
East and the Gulf War, and in Iraq. The Gurkha Brigade Association, the | :53:00. | :53:19. | |
200th anniversary of the creation of the Gurkhas. As an Army, serving the | :53:20. | :53:29. | |
British Crown. The Duke of Cambridge still taking the salute on horse | :53:30. | :53:34. | |
guards, as the procession round the bottom end of Whitehall and turns up | :53:35. | :53:40. | |
onto Horse Guards Parade. We rejoin it at the point where the Royal | :53:41. | :53:48. | |
Marines Association, their green berets, blue berets. They are all | :53:49. | :53:59. | |
trained to commando level before they get that coveted green beret. | :54:00. | :54:10. | |
HMS Bulwark, Albion and Centaur, those three ships. Bulwark, the | :54:11. | :54:19. | |
latest version of HMS Bulwark, involved in the rescue of migrants | :54:20. | :54:22. | |
from the Mediterranean earlier this year. The Fleet Air Arm officers | :54:23. | :54:45. | |
Association here. Now the Fleet Air Arm has been represented by various | :54:46. | :54:50. | |
parts of their service, the armourers' sick Association, the | :54:51. | :54:58. | |
Buccaneers Association, the national Far East Prisoners of War | :54:59. | :55:04. | |
Association. Marching for their 70th anniversary of the end of the war in | :55:05. | :55:09. | |
the Far East. The National pigeon war service. The juju messenger | :55:10. | :55:16. | |
pigeons were awarded the animal Victoria Cross -- 32 messenger | :55:17. | :55:26. | |
pigeons. It's the Dicken medal. The National Gulf veterans and families | :55:27. | :55:35. | |
Association. The wreath Berra, Nick -- Nicholas Lee Richards, served in | :55:36. | :55:38. | |
the Falklands, the Sudan and the Crown. | :55:39. | :55:52. | |
The families of those who fought in the British first Army, landing in | :55:53. | :56:03. | |
Algeria in November 1942. The Parachute regimental Association, in | :56:04. | :56:06. | |
their red berets, the Red Devils, they were called back, by the | :56:07. | :56:12. | |
Germans. They are actually maroon berets. Carried out the crossing of | :56:13. | :56:14. | |
the Rhine in 1945. The Rifles regimental Association | :56:15. | :56:37. | |
next. Among those marching, Lisa Inns, whose son was killed. She and | :56:38. | :56:41. | |
her daughter there. A touching sight. | :56:42. | :56:47. | |
Here for the first time, the Kings African rifles. There wreath layer, | :56:48. | :56:58. | |
they have travelled from Kenya to take part in this march-past today. | :56:59. | :57:02. | |
One of the veterans last marched here in 1946. Joseph, in the victory | :57:03. | :57:08. | |
parade, in front of George VI. Over 100,000 Africans fought | :57:09. | :57:16. | |
in the Second World War and they are They bore the brunt | :57:17. | :57:19. | |
of the fighting in east Africa They were laying a wreath on behalf | :57:20. | :57:37. | |
of the Women's Land Army and the women's Timber Corps. | :57:38. | :57:45. | |
The Scout Association, led by Jags, whose great-uncle lost his life | :57:46. | :57:55. | |
during the First World War. For those young people, a reminder of | :57:56. | :57:59. | |
what these events are all about as this ceremony draws to a close. It | :58:00. | :58:03. | |
is a commemoration to which everyone, I suppose, brings their | :58:04. | :58:06. | |
own private thoughts, and from which they take their own different | :58:07. | :58:09. | |
memories. We have been hearing some of them. It's now nearly 100 years | :58:10. | :58:15. | |
since the Cenotaph was the focus of national mourning for those killed | :58:16. | :58:19. | |
in the war, which exceeded in its horror anything that was then | :58:20. | :58:23. | |
thought conceivable. But it was next the focus for those who lost their | :58:24. | :58:27. | |
lives to defeat fascism in the second Great War of the 20th | :58:28. | :58:30. | |
century, a war which ended in the hope that peace might follow. They | :58:31. | :58:39. | |
hope that eludes us, year on year, as we mourn more young lives cut | :58:40. | :58:44. | |
short by death, all four of the changed by injury. -- or forever | :58:45. | :58:51. | |
changed by injury. It's not really the glory of war that is | :58:52. | :58:54. | |
commemorated here, so much as the horror. Lest we forget. From London, | :58:55. | :59:00. | |
goodbye. He's in an exotic land. In the far | :59:01. | :59:08. | |
reaches of northern Europe. A place of unbelievable history, | :59:09. | :59:12. | |
myth and legend. ..as he discovers a different | :59:13. | :59:16. | |
kind of Ireland. | :59:17. | :59:26. |