Lights out at 10pm tomorrow

To mark the centenary of Britain's entry into the Great War tomorrow, lights will be switched out between 10pm and 11pm.

Public buildings will douse their lights and it is suggested that where possible households also switch off electric lights and light one or more candles to commomorate the ghastly tragedy which took place a hundred years ago tomorrow.

The more we can ensure that everyone understands and remembers the ghastly cost of war, less likely we are to have to repeat it.

The nations who sent their troops to war a hundred years ago hoped for a short victorious war, the young men to fight hoped and expected that it would be all over by Christmas.

Let us learn from their sacrifice and remember them.

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