January Last Post

Today on a very cold afternoon, around 40 people attended the Brookwood Last Post.

The poem was called ‘The End and the Beginning’, written by Polish poet WISŁAWA SZYMBORSKA between the first and second worlds wars but still very much pertinent today.

Our Individual Remembrance was a first for us as he was a Polish national. Kapral (Corporal) Czeslaw Firewicz of the 1 Dyw. Gren (1^st Grenadier Division) Polish Army. He died on 7 January 1944, exactly 80 years ago today aged 23. He is buried in the Polish Plot a few metres from where the ceremony was held today.

We had three Standards on parade; the BLP Standard paraded by Alan Lopez, the Royal British Legion Bisley, Knaphill and West End branch and the Artists Rifles carried by Norman Holden and Eddie Jones respectively.

Afterwards we retired to the Trench Experience to warm up.

Thank you to both Alan Meeks and Mike Hillman for the photographs.

Below is an audio recording of the ceremony for those who were unable to attend.