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By SueL7

We will remember them.

The Remembrance Sunday Parade, organised by the Teddington Branch of The British Legion, was led from the British Legion Headquarters in Teddington High Street to the War Memorial outside the Teddington Memorial Hospital. There were many children and young folk in the parade. This pony was part of it with the young folk from the Park Lane Riding Stables.

The "Ode of Remembrance" is an ode taken from Laurence Binyon's poem, "For the Fallen", which was first published in The Times in September 1914.

They went with songs to the battle, they were young.
Straight of limb, true of eyes, steady and aglow.
They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted,
They fell with their faces to the foe.

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.

They mingle not with their laughing comrades again;
They sit no more at familiar tables of home;
They have no lot in our labour of the day-time;
They sleep beyond England's foam

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