Across the country people gathered to remember those who had fallen in the Great War on the 21st commemoration of Armistice Day.
In Swindon, the mayor, Coun HR Hustings, placed a wreath from the people of Swindon on the Cenotaph which read: “In hallowed memory of their loyal sons who made the supreme sacrifice.”
“Although no hooters were sounded to mark the time of two minutes’ silence, as usual on Armistice Day, when the Town Hall struck eleven everyone stood in dead silence,” reported the Advertiser. “Faintly, but distinctly, one could hear the sobbing of individuals, mostly women, who perhaps lost their sons or husbands during the last war.”
The annual Remembrance Day Service at Swindon’s parish church was attended by members of the British Legion and ex-Servicemen, local units of the British Red Cross Society, members of the Urban Council and other public bodies.
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