Sandown's Christ Church commemorated D Day 80 with a special Pentecost service, with readings from the Island's Lord-Lieutenant Susie Sheldon JP and High Sheriff Graham Biss BEM DL.
The service also included a D-Day 80 Poem read by local school children Lexi Summers, Layla-Mai Covell and Harry Wackrill led by Rev Mark Williams.
Dave Plummer conducted Sandown and Shanklin Military Band, with bugler Stuart Kent playing the Last Post and Reveille, with ex-service personnel Frank Baldry and Ian Ward BEM saying the Exhortation and Kohima Epitaph, and the congregation of 150 led in prayers by Church Warden Alec Weaver.
Mrs Sheldon said:
"With the Island, and the nation, preparing to Commemorate the 80th Anniversary of D-Day, the service was a fitting tribute to the memories of those involved at Normandy and the liberation of Europe."
The commemoration also marked the 80th anniversary of the battle of Monte Cassino, and concluded with the Mayors of Sandown and Shanklin, with the Chair of Lake Parish Council, signing the Armed Forces Covenant with Covenant Champion Cllr Ian Dore.
Rev Williams concluded:
"The community of the Bay came together to commemorate the events of 1944, and the debt we owe to the generation that gave us the freedoms we enjoy today."
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