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War Memorial Gates

1921 , Stowmarket (Suffolk)

Cat no. 1048

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Newsreel of the unveiling of the War Memorial Gates in Stowmarket.

Sunday 13th February 1921. The camera position is in Tavern Street at the bottom of Violet Hill Road, and then in Finborough Road. In the procession, there are ex-servicemen, relatives of the fallen, a firing party, members of the Council, V.A.D. nurses and Red Cross workers, Guides, Brownies, Cubs, Scouts, the Salvation Army band, members of the clergy and robed choirs. At the War Memorial Gates there are members of the clergy, including Reverend L'Estrange Fawcett (Vicar of Stowmarket from 1916 to 1926). The unveiling is performed by Sir T. Coutenay Warner, Lord Lieutenant of Suffolk.

Keywords

Ceremonies; Processions; War memorials; World War I

Background Information

Muffled peals were rung on the bells of the church from two o'clock until the unveiling. Minute guns were fired at intervals of 15 minutes from two o'clock until half past four. There was a request by the Council that all blinds be drawn from two thirty until four as a mark of respect. The Reverend Francis L'Estrange Fawcett was vicar of Stowmarket from 1916 to 1926. He had two sons, one of whom worked for the Gaumont Newsreel Company. The November 1990 EAFA newsletter tells the story of how the newsreel was discovered. Geoffrey Clarke of Haughley near Stowmarket found one single frame of the newsreel - the frame which identified the makers, Gaumont Graphic. From this, the original negative was traced to the Visnews Library. It is the earliest known film of Stowmarket.

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War Memorial Gates

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