{"id":5657,"date":"2026-05-19T12:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T11:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/no4arearna.co.uk\/?p=5657"},"modified":"2026-05-19T13:12:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T12:12:03","slug":"decoration-day-in-torbay-and-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/no4arearna.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/decoration-day-in-torbay-and-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Decoration Day in Torbay and Canada 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/no4arearna.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Medicine-Hat-Decoration-Day.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-5658\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/no4arearna.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Medicine-Hat-Decoration-Day.jpg?resize=400%2C224&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"224\"><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Shipmates<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Newton Abbot Royal British Legion will be holding their annual Decoration Day Ceremony at Ogwell Cross Cemetery, Old Totnes Road, Newton Abbot at 11.00 on Sunday 7th June 2026.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">The annual event remembers 28 members of our own and Allied Forces who are interned in the cemetery. Those attending are asked to arrive by 10.30.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Following the service the RBL will serve light refreshments at their club in Marsh Road.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Meanwhile, in Canada, the Royal Canadian Legion Branch in Medicine Hat, Alberta with which the Newton Abbot Royal British Legion is twinned also carry out a Decoration Day Ceremony on the same weekend in June each year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">In the ceremony at Medicine Hat, there are 128 graves of British Servicemen who were killed whilst training in Canada during the Second World War.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">The headstones are cleaned before the day and poppies are placed on all except the front two rows of stones. A short service of Remembrance is carried out during which officers of the Royal Canadian Legion, Allied Organisations and various Civil dignitaries then place poppies on the remaining headstones.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Ex-forces organisations, Cadets and other military organisations are all warmly welcomed to this poignant service in remembrance of our fallen comrades.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shipmates Newton Abbot Royal British Legion will be holding their annual Decoration Day Ceremony at Ogwell Cross Cemetery, Old Totnes[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civic-event","category-in-memoriam","category-noticeboard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":false,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8R0mQ-1tf","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/no4arearna.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/no4arearna.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/no4arearna.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no4arearna.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no4arearna.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5657"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/no4arearna.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5668,"href":"https:\/\/no4arearna.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5657\/revisions\/5668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/no4arearna.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no4arearna.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no4arearna.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}