Bangor Cathedral’s display of 20,000 knitted poppies commemorating the centenary of the end of the First World War, will close on Remembrance Sunday, 11th November, in a unique way.
A special Service to remember Bangor’s fallen will take place on Remembrance Sunday, November 11th, when a group of young people from Bangor, of the same age as those who died in the First World War, 1914-1918, will read out the biographies of the city’s heroes who gave their lives in the conflict and who are commemorated in Cofeb Y Dewrion (Heroes’ Memorial) compiled by the Reverend W.J.Owen (Afallon) soon after the war.
The people of Bangor are invited to collect a poppy from the Cathedral on All Saints Day, November 1st if they now live in the house once the home of one of Bangor’s First World War heroes. The poppy can be collected between the hours of 10.30am and 3.30pm or arrange collection by phoning 01248 354999.
They can check the addresses on the Bangor Civic Society website by following the link where the pages of the war dead are featured in the book Cofeb Y Dewrion (Parch WJ Owen). http://www.bangorcivicsociety.org.uk/pages/hisso/cofeb/index.htm#images
The poppy can then be returned in a special Service to remember the fallen on Remembrance Sunday, November 11th at 3.15pm. At the Service ten biographies of the Bangor war dead along with the names of all the fallen will be read out by the young people of Bangor today.
Biographies of those from Bangor who died in the First World War will be read out at a special remembrance service at Bangor cathedral
