This year’s Remembrance Day Sunday service at St Mark’s Shared Church, Bordon, commemorated the centenary of the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) - the first time women were formally fully enrolled in the UK’s Armed Forces – as well as women’s Service in the British Armed Forces ever since.
A dance drama “Keeping the Home Fires Burning”, written and directed by Hilary Bishop, was performed by the YEM Theatre School. This celebrated the enormous contribution to both world wars made by women who did not join the armed forces, but served in other ways, providing vital support on the home front.
Just before the 11am, the congregation moved outside into the arena space outside Forest Community Centre, which had been transformed in a ‘Cathedral of Colour’.
On the weeks leading up to Armistice Day, people across Bordon and Whitehill had been invited to write the names of people they wished to remember on pieces of coloured acetate. These were then joined together with sleigh bells to create a spectacle of colour and sound.