Tristan Remembers
Report and photos from Dawn Repetto
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A service was held on Remembrance Sunday 10th November at St Joseph's Catholic Church for all the community. By tradition these services alternate between the Anglican St Mary's and St Joseph's Catholic Church and this year it was St Joseph's turn. The service was taken by Lay Minister Dereck Rogers and prayers were read by Chief Islander James Glass. At the end of the service everyone proceeded to the Flagpole where wreaths were placed and prayers and poems read. |
| Left: Dereck Rogers leads the service | |
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| Administrator Sean Burns and Chief Islander James Glass present wreaths at the altar from the Tristan Government and Community respectively. |
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| Former Chief Islander Conrad Glass leads the procession from the church carrying the staff cross. | |
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| The procession nears the flagpole with the red roof of St Joseph's Church showing behind. | |
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| Members of the congregation walking towards the Prince Philip Hall ready for the remembrance event at the flagpole. |
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| Prayers are said before the traditional two minutes' silence. | |
| Dereck, Sean, Conrad and James at the flagpole which serves as Tristan's war memorial as the community gathers to remember those who have lost their lives in conflict. |
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Tristan has twice been garrisoned by British armed forces. Islanders have received awards for their service in the Boer War and more recently the South Atlantic Medal for serving with pride aboard RMS St Helena in the merchant-navy fleet that re-supplied the Falklands in 1982. |
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| The photo below shows the plaque on the bottom section of the flagpole which commemorates islandeers serving in the Tristan Defence Volunteers and honouring the service of Robart Glass and James Hagan during the Anglo Boer War. | |
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