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Remembrance: Gallery of Remembrance Day and memorial images

Bill poster issued by the King ordering all traffic and persons to fall silent when the clocks strike 11 on November 11th, 1924
A poster showing the King's wish for a two minutes silence on Armistice Day, 11th November, 1924


A photograph showing a priest leading a well-attended ceremony in front of a war memorial
A memorial dedication ceremony


A column of former servicemen parading through a street
Former servicemen parade through the streets of Ellesmere


A sandstone cross war memorial in Lydbury North churchyard.
Lydbury North War memorial


Photograph of a war memorial, a large upright slab of stone with a wreath
Memorial in St. Michael's Street, Shrewsbury


A white stone grave, with square sides and curved at the top.
The grave of Private Percy Alfred Thomas Male, in Moorseele, Belgium

The inscription says:
205492 Private
P.A.T. Male
Notts Derby Regiment
20th October, 1918 Age 19

Percy Male was born in Shrewsbury. He was 15 or 16 when he joined the army. He was not supposed to fight until he was 18. He died when he was just 19 years old.

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