Thank you to everyone who joined us on Remembrance Sunday at St Olave Hart Street.

During the service, Jack Fleming shared some of his fascinating research into the lives of two of the twenty-seven men commemorated on our parish war memorial: Douglas Tossetti, a champagne merchant and Essex cricketer, and Robert Pillman, an England rugby international whose family’s business was based in Seething Lane. Both served in the First World War and lost their lives in France. Their stories reminded us that behind each name on our parish war memorial lies a life, with family, friendships, hopes and connections to the streets around our church.

Thank you to the choir for their beautiful singing of movements from Mozart’s Requiem, under the direction of Colin Spinks.

As we remembered those who died in conflicts past, we also held in prayer all those whose lives continue to be affected by war today and renewed our commitment to work for reconciliation and peace.

We will remember them.