4th AUGUST 2014: To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of World War One, Hedon Town Council is to hold a short service at the Hedon cenotaph at the Cemetery on Ivy Lane.
At 5pm a ‘Peace Rose’ will be planted and the Reverend Gordon Smethurst will say prayers and read out the names of Hedon people who lost their lives during the Great War.
Hedon Town Council has issued an invitation for residents to attend this memorial event.
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Contact me Ella. Rev Smethurst is the Mayor’s Chaplain this year. I’ll put you in touch with him.
Tel 897129, or email me. John@johnpdennis.karoo.co.uk
How can I get in contact with Reverend Gordon Smethurst personally, I am enquiring for my father?