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Scaled down but poignant Armistice Day 2020

11th November 2020 by Richard Batson

Our community hospital dedicated to soldiers lost in battle held a small Armistice Day service in their honour.

The annual event was scaled down to a handful of people due to lockdown restrictions.

North Walsham War Memorial Hospital Armistice Day 2020
North Walsham War Memorial Hospital Armistice Day 2020

But organisers were determined it should go ahead to remember the sacrifice of 99 men from the town and another 80 from surrounding villages who gave their lives fighting for their country in the First World War.

Hospital Friends group chairman Keith Jarvis said: “We were pleased to hold the service in honour of the soldiers the hospital is a memorial too, as well as others who have given their lives serving their country. It was a small but poignant gathering but we hope to revert to a larger scale service next year.”

North Walsham War Memorial Hospital Armistice Day 2020
North Walsham War Memorial Hospital Armistice Day 2020

He joined North Walsham church ordinand Jo Haywood, Salvation Army bugler Ian Richardson, and two Royal British Legion representatives – deputy-chairman and standard bearer Bill McIvor and secretary Sheila Mitchell, for the short service.

Prayers included one for the foundation of the 24-bed hospital in memory of those who suffer through war, and for its current patients – who, following a recent temporary change of role for the unit – are all people recovering from Covid.

North Walsham War Memorial Hospital Armistice Day 2020
Hospital Friends chairman Keith Jarvis lays the group’s wreath at North Walsham War Memorial Hospital Armistice Day 2020

 

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War Memorial Hospital hosts fitting start to Armistice Day events

12th November 2018 by Richard Batson

North Walsham’s War Memorial Hospital was the fitting venue for the first of the town’s five services marking the centenary of Armistice Day.

North Walsham War Memorial Hospital Armistice day 2018
Lowering of the standards. North Walsham War Memorial Hospital Armistice Day 2018

Hospital Friends were joined by  the Royal British Legion, Army and Air Training Corps cadets, councillors including the mayor Barry Hester, hospital staff and supporters for a 9.30am service and wreath-laying led by the vicar the Rev Paul Cubitt.

North Walsham War Memorial Hospital Armistice day 2018
Royal British Legion and Hospital Friends at North Walsham War Memorial Hospital Armistice Day 2018

Paul Watts from the Cromer and Sheringham Band was the bugler.

North Walsham War Memorial Hospital Armistice day 2018
Bugler Paul Watts. North Walsham War Memorial Hospital Armistice Day 2018

The original hospital was built in 1924 in memory of the 99 men who lost their lives in the Great War.

North Walsham War Memorial Hospital Armistice day 2018
Cadets on parade. North Walsham War Memorial Hospital Armistice Day 2018

 

North Walsham War Memorial Hospital Armistice day 2018
The Red Cross Hospital flag at North Walsham War Memorial Hospital Armistice Day 2018

Also on display was a replica Red Cross fIag as a reminder of the two auxiliary hospitals which were set up temporarily in the town to nurse injured soldiers from the 1914-18 conflict. Two flags have been recreated, to go on display at the hospital and church, through a joint initiative this year by the Friends and the vicar.

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Armistice ceremony’s 100-year-old VIP visitor

11th November 2017 by Wayne Beauchamp

A centenarian army veteran was among those marking Armistice Day at North Walsham War Memorial Hospital.

Stanley Puddifoot, 100, from Salhouse, who is a patient at the hospital, served six years with the Royal Artillery and the Chindits special forces in Burma and India.

He was wheeled from the ward to join Saturday’s silence and ceremony at the hospital, which is a memorial to 99 men from the town, and another 80 from surrounding villages.

The ceremony was led by the vicar of North Walsham the Rev Paul Cubitt, and was attended by guests including the Royal British Legion, hospital League of Friends and the town council.

Stanley Puddifoot joins the Armistice Day VIPs
Stanley Puddifoot joins the Armistice Day VIPs

Stanley Puddifoot at the Armistice Day ceremony
Stanley Puddifoot at the Armistice Day ceremony

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Chairman

Keith Jarvis
15 Primrose Close
Trunch NR28 0QH

Tel: 07788 889853

Secretary

Angela Batson
30 Beechlands Park
Southrepps NR11 8NT

Tel: 07775 557381

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Carol Willgress
6 Rayna Loke
North Walsham, NR28 0FJ

Tel: 01692 402018

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