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Worcester Cathedral - Memorial Chapel of St. George | |
Armistice Sunday, 8th November 1936, for the City and County had a special significance. With the passage of the years the services which mark the Armistice must inevitably lose something of the poignancy which attached to earlier celebrations, but this year there were elements which stirred deeply the emotions of many. On this occasion there was the dedication of the War Memorial Chapel which has been formed in the Cathedral. (Click here to read a copy of the Order of Service) With it was associated a good deal of ceremonial—ecclesiastical, military and civic, and the service was attended by a large number of people representative of every phase of the public life of the City and County, and by a great company of ex-Servicemen, chiefly members of the British Legion. |
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The ceremonial and service stirred in the hearts and minds of many memories of older campaigns and earlier dedications. South African veterans were reminded of remote ties of friendship still existing, and of departures and homecomings during that campaign. Many had memories of both the earlier war and the Great War, and of visits to the Cathedral to mark some ceremony or service in connection with one or the other. The time-dimmed impressions of these occasions were now revived and invested the service with a special solemnity. |
The Dean (Dr. Davies), inspired a number of alterations and changes within the Cathedral, which have enhanced its beauty, and have given to parts of it a special significance. The suggestion of a Chapel devoted to Military Memorials and Symbols was heartily approved by the Regimental authorities, by the Territorial Association and by everybody concerned in the removal of tablets or
monuments. |
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The proposals with regard to establishing the War Memorial Chapel for the County and the County Regiments
had been the subject of many discussions over the years between the Dean and Chapter and Committee of the Worcestershire County War Memorial, and eventually the scheme to establish the Chapel as it now stands was evolved, and submitted to and approved by the subscribers to the War Memorial Fund, which was inaugurated soon after the
First World War 1914-18 by the late Lord Coventry as Lord Lieutenant. |
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