On 3rd November, 2018, I took part in '100 Years of Remembrance' which was started by local ex serviceman Wayne Cherry, who has been giving 100 hours of his time to honour those lost in the First World War. As part of this, he pledged to remember the 189 names on the Devizes War Memorial on this day. Lining both sides of The Brittox by 11am were 189 men, women and children, (and many more,) to remember the 189 men who didn't come home. Last Post was played by Devizes Town Band's Kelvin Nash, followed by two minutes silence, then an hour together, each of us wearing a badge naming one man. I don't think Ernest Cannings was a relative, (my paternal gran was a Cannings, but from Wilton, near Salisbury,) but as it's a family name, I chose him. Ernest died on 12th March, (my son's birthday,) in 1915 and was buried in La Laiterie Military Cemetery, south of Ypres, Belgium.  His brother lived in Rotherstone, a road by the Kennet and Avon Canal, in Devizes. I will be thinking of Ernest and wearing his name badge again on Remembrance Sunday, along with one of my grandfather's medals, when I play with Devizes Town Band. We Will Remember Them.

Sarah Tyler