THE 80^th COMMEMORATION OF

THE BATTLE OF ARNHEM

SOMERBY & BURROUGH ON THE HILL, LEICESTERSHIRE

 

SEPTEMBER 2024

 

Friday 6^th 7.00pm – All Saints Church, Somerby

 

7.00pm…… ‘Flying Foxhunters’ – an illustrated talk about Planes, Pilots and Paras from around Somerby by Jeremy Heygate. Tickets £10

 

Saturday 7^th 10.00am – Somerby Memorial Hall

 

10.00am……The Memorial Hall opens for refreshments

11.30am……Mrs. Davina Bates talks about her time in the village during World War 2 and launches the re-printed book ‘Somerby Remembered’

The film of the 70^th Somerby Commemoration will be showing

 

Saturday 7^th 2.00pm – The 10^th Battalion Memorial,

Burrough on the Hill

 

2.00pm……The marquee at the GBLC opens. Refreshments include a hog roast, licenced bar, tea, coffee and cakes

3.00pm……Grahame Warner introduces and will sign his book ‘Arnhem: Eight Days to Oblivion’

5.00pm……March down to the Memorial (Berets & Medals), for the Annual ‘At the Going Down of the Sun’ Service of Remembrance, wreath laying and unveiling of a new Memorial to the USAAF 315TCG at the 10^th Battalion Memorial

6.00pm……Food and drinks in the marquee still available and entertainment by the ‘Lahdidah’s’.

8.30pm……Close.

 

Sunday 8^th September – Somerby village

The Annual Arnhem Parade and Service

 

10.15am……The parade forms up

10.30am……The parade moves off

11.00am……The Remembrance Service in All Saints Church followed by the Salute

Refreshments served in the Memorial Hall after the Service