Lest We Forget – RCL Whitby 112 2023 Cenotaph

EVENT: Remembrance Day 2023

Widely attended by residents of the town and local organizations, the Remembrance ceremony was a chance o honour veterans and current women and men who serve and protect our freedoms.

“The Annual Remembrance Day Parade forms up in front of the Branch on Byron St. South at 10:15 am. The Whitby Brass Band will lead the parade. The Parade marches off at 10:30 am. The parade proceeds north on Byron St. to Dundas Street, east on Dundas past the four corners and arrives at the Cenotaph at approximately 10:40 am..”

Lest We Forget.

 In Flanders Fields
    In Flanders Fields, the poppies blow
         Between the crosses, row on row,
       That mark our place; and in the sky
       The larks, still bravely singing, fly
    Scarce heard amid the guns below.

    We are the dead. Short days ago
    We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
       Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
                              In Flanders fields.

    Take up our quarrel with the foe:
    To you from failing hands we throw
       The torch; be yours to hold it high.
       If ye break faith with us who die
    We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
                                In Flanders fields.

Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae.