Huddersfield remembers war heroes on November 11

Nov 12 2009 By Hazel Ettienne

Huddersfield remembers the fallen

YOUNG and old stood together with their head’s bowed in Huddersfield Market Place as veterans remembered their fallen comrades at the 11th hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh month.

Yesterday hundreds of people gathered to see poppy wreaths laid to represent those who had died in conflicts large and small.

This year for the first time members of the newly-formed West Yorkshire branch of the Aden Veterans Association held a ceremony at the Market Cross to remember the hundreds killed in ‘The Forgotten War’ in South Arabia in the 1960s.

Terry Marsden, of Halifax, who organised the event said it was more important today than ever to remember all those who have been killed in action.

He said the Aden forces had been badly let down by the British government during the 1960s.

The West Yorkshire branch, formed this year, is one of nine Aden veterans’ branches nationwide. It has more than 1,600 members and almost 200 overseas.

Veterans travelled to Huddersfield from the Fens, Isle of Man, Rotherham and Liverpool for the event.

Piper Graham Stringer played the tune of the Barren Rocks of Aden, the association’s anthem.