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PARWICH Commemoration of the start of WW1 

From 8.30 p.m. onwards:

Exhibition of pictures & details of the known men who enlisted during the 1914-18 War. (This list has been drawn up by a group from the History Society who have been visiting the ‘Magic Attic’ at Swadlincote to look through old copies of local newspapers from those years. The list includes around twenty-five names, many from well-known Parwich families.)

 9.15 p.m.: “Parwich at War, 1914 to 1918” 

An illustrated talk (illustrated with pictures of Parwich men who went off to war) about

1. Life in the village between 1914 and 1918 and how it was affected by the War
2. The conditions at the Front, and some of the details of the men involved.

 At about 10.30 p.m.: torchlight procession to the War Memorial.

 Rev Ian Aldersley will conduct a brief memorial service and the names of all Parwich residents who took part in the War will be read out.

At 11.oo p.m. the candles and torches will be extinguished, we shall observe a minute’s silence, and everyone will the quietly depart.