{"id":1080,"date":"2016-11-02T19:59:06","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T19:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/?p=1080"},"modified":"2016-11-02T20:01:53","modified_gmt":"2016-11-02T20:01:53","slug":"visitors-invited-to-join-remembrance-service-at-cosford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/aviation-news-uk\/aviation-museum-news\/visitors-invited-to-join-remembrance-service-at-cosford\/","title":{"rendered":"Visitors invited to join Remembrance Service at Cosford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/article-images\/Remembrance.jpg\" alt=\"RAF Museum Cosford Remembrance\" border=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Date: Sunday 13 November<\/h3>\n<h3>Time: 10.30am<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>On Sunday 13 November, the Royal Air Force Museum Cosford will hold a Service of Remembrance, paying respect to those service men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice during their tours of duty.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Visitors who wish to pay their respects and reflect on the sacrifices made by our brave service men and women are invited to join the service, led by Rev (Sqn Ldr) Andrew J L Chapman, Station Chaplain RAF Cosford.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Those attending will also be treated to renditions from the Cosford Military Wives Choir, who will perform for visitors on arrival and during the service.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The service will take place in the museum\u2019s Hangar 1 and visitors are politely requested to assemble no later than 10:30am ready for the Service to commence at 10.45am.\u00a0 As well as readings from museum volunteers, there will be hymns and the sounding of \u2018The <strong>Last Post\u2019<\/strong>, followed by a <strong>two minute silence<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>RAF Museum Cosford Events Manager, Abi Betteridge<\/strong><strong> says: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u201cThe RAF Museum is a fitting location for this poignant occasion and we hope that local residents will choose to join us on Remembrance Sunday so we can remember together.\u00a0 I would like to thank the Station Chaplain and the Cosford Military Wives Choir for their involvement in this years\u2019 service. I\u2019m sure visitors will enjoy the special service we have planned as well as the performances from the choir.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em>During the service, wreaths will be laid by representatives from RAF Cosford, the museum and a Second World War veteran in honour of those who have fallen in the line of duty. Following the service visitors are free to explore the museum at their own leisure.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you would like to find out about Service Personnel who fell serving in the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Air Force during the Great War of 1914 to 1918, or to dedicate a digital poppy, please visit the\u00a0RAF Museum\u2019s online story vault: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rafmuseumstoryvault.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.rafmuseumstoryvault.org.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The museum is open daily from 10am to 4pm and entry to the museum is FREE of charge. \u00a0For further information please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rafmuseum.org\/cosford\" target=\"_blank\">www.rafmuseum.org\/cosford<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date: Sunday 13 November Time: 10.30am On Sunday 13 November, the Royal Air Force Museum Cosford will hold a Service of Remembrance, paying respect to those service men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice during their tours of duty.\u00a0 Visitors who wish to pay their respects and reflect on the sacrifices made by our &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/aviation-news-uk\/aviation-museum-news\/visitors-invited-to-join-remembrance-service-at-cosford\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Visitors invited to join Remembrance Service at Cosford<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[263,10,55,195],"class_list":["post-1080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation-museum-news","tag-263","tag-news","tag-november","tag-raf-museum-cosford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1080"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1084,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080\/revisions\/1084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}