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    Remembrance Day Service 2014 in Bangkok

    Hope any who attend ask mark kent, about Koh tao.


    The annual Remembrance Day Service at the British Embassy in Bangkok will be held at 10:50am on Sunday 9 November 2014.
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    This year the annual Remembrance Day Service at the British Embassy in Bangkok will be held at 10:50 on Sunday 9 November. The event will not only commemorate British, Commonwealth, and allied personnel, but all those who have been affected in all conflicts. It serves as a reminder that nations who fought so bitterly against each other can come together to promote peace and stability in the modern world.

    If you would like to attend, please download and fill in the Reply Form (PDF, 74.4KB, 1 page) and then email to Remembrance.Bangkok@fco.gov.uk by 6 November. Please include the full names of all those who are planning to attend. You will then be sent further information.

    The programme can be downloaded. (PDF, 10.6KB, 1 page)

    Sale of poppies
    Poppies will be on sale for members of the public at the British Embassy (Wireless Gate) from Friday 24 October until Tuesday 11 November 2014.

    History of the Poppy Appeal
    On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918, the First World War ended. Civilians wanted to remember the people who had given their lives for peace and freedom. An American War Secretary, Moina Michael, inspired by John McCrae’s poem, “In Flanders’ Fields”, began selling poppies to friends to raise money for the ex-Service community. The Legion adopted the poppy for its fundraising in 1921 - and so the tradition began.

    Poppy Factory In 1922 Major George Howson, a young infantry officer, formed the Disabled Society to help disabled ex-Service men and women from the First World War. Howson suggested to the Legion that members of the Disabled Society could make poppies, and the Poppy Factory was subsequently founded in Richmond in 1922. The original poppy was designed so that workers with a disability could easily assemble it and this principle remains today.

    British Embassy Cenotaph
    The names of 25 personnel who gave the ultimate sacrifice in the service of their country are inscribed on the Cenotaph in the grounds of the British Embassy, Bangkok. One such individual, Lt. William Reginald Dibb left a relatively peaceful life in northern Thailand while in service of the Bombay Burmah Trading Corporation to return to England in order to join the Royal Field Artillery, a service in which he lost his life in France in 1918. This compilation was taken from a blog which was also dedicated to the loving memory of the writers’ mother, Malee Wattananikorn, Lt. William Reginald Dibb’s youngest daughter. She died on April 6th 2012 at the age of ninety-seven, in Bangkok, Thailand. Thai military personnel are commemorated on a Monument to the

    Expeditionary Force
    The Monument in Bangkok is a memorial to the Thai soldiers killed on the Western Front in World War I.

    It’s not widely known that Thailand deployed an expeditionary force to fight on the side of the Western powers during the Great War in Europe 1914 – 1919.

    At the northern edge of Sanam Luang near the National Gallery, there’s a neat garden with well trimmed hedges.

    In the center stands a white four-sided structure topped with a chedi-like spire. The names of the 19 fallen service personnel are inscribed on the monument

    Further information
    Follow British Ambassador Mark Kent on twitter @KentBKK

    Follow the British Embassy Bangkok on Twitter and Facebook

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    An expeditionary force that was really a second thought by Rama 6.....the number was extremely nominal [1,200 - 1,400 warm bodies] and was sent very very late into the campaign [latter part of 1918]. And most didn't see action....only a handful advanced to the front lines.

    I'd be curious to know the actual number of Thai deaths in the European campaign of WW1.......

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    [QUOTE="Yasojack"]Hope any who attend ask mark kent, about Koh tao. [/QOOTE]Utterly stupid, insensitive and disrespectful comment.

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