Mrs Fawkes and Mrs Patience feel very proud to have received the following email from Tommy Davidson today. Well done Team Uphall!
Dear All,
I hope you are all well.
Just over three months ago, we met up and started to discuss, plan and organise a Parade, Service and Reception to remember Corporal Robert Beveridge MM and all those that fell at the Battle of Passchendaele 1917, 100 years ago.
Our Association engaged with the local children/teachers at Uphall Primary school, West Lothian Council, CWGC, RBL Livingston Branch and we brought people together. If you click the link below, you can hear their choir with singer/song writer Alan Brydon, singing “The Road to Passchendaele” which was very moving. Ex Veterans took the time to visit the school, which was also wonderful to see. Our CWGC helped connect the fallen to local WW1 graves.
Our Association would like to congratulate the Depute Head at Uphall Primary Kirsten Patience and the entire school. They have engaged and learned local heritage that had been buried for 100 years. The men from Uphall had been forgotten until now. Kirsten and her amazing teachers have shown how easy it is to unearth local history and ensure generation after generation never forget men like Corporal Robert Beveridge MM and all those that feel in the Great War. The children have also learned about life and conditions100 years ago, children learned to appreciate how difficult life was, the hardship pain and suffering that many families experienced was dreadful.
http://www.forces.net/radio/scottish-primary-pupils-remember-passchendaele-heroes
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Pupils from Uphall Primary School in West Lothian have been invited to help commemorate Corporal Robert Beveridge MM and all those that were killed at Passchendaele.
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On behalf of our Association, could we sincerely thank everyone one of you, for your amazing support.
We Will Remember
