A Few Silent Minutes Is Needed Of National Remembrance:Edward George Honey-

Please find attached photos of Edward George Honey memorial stone.




Edward George Honey (1885-1922), an Australian journalist working in Fleet Street,
and who had fought with the British, wrote in 1919 to the Evening Mail as follows:
’A few silent minutes is needed of National Remembrance : a sacred intercession.
A communion with the Glorious Dead, who have won us this peace ; from this
communion : a new strength, a new hope and a faith in the morrow. In the street,
the home, the theatre; indeed anywhere Englishmen and their women chance to
be, surely these bitter-sweet minutes of silence will be service enough.’ This because
he was devastated by the victory celebrations of drunkenness in the streets.
A few months later he was invited by King George V to view a rehearsal at Buckingham
Palace of a Remembrance Celebration and a Two Minute Silence. Honey has a monument
in Melbourne near the great Shrine of Remembrance ( where on 11th November at 11am
a shaft of sunlight shines through an aperture in the roof on to a memorial slab inscribed
’Greater Love Hath No Man’.)
Honey was a sickly man and unfortunately contracted

tuberculosis and was admitted to Mount Vernon Hospital where he died in 1922.
He is buried in Northwood Cemetery in Chestnut Avenue ,Northwood,Middlesex.

http://www.htnorthwood.co.uk/ParishNews/NOVEMBER2010.pdf

BBC - Remembrance - Two minute silence

 

Cheers for that Clive, I didn't know that was where the 2 minutes silence originated.
Would like to see the Melbourne Shrine of Remembrance at 11am 11/11. Sounds magnificent.

 

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I have too.

 

I remember as a young boy it being called the Great Silence.

It is a Spiritful moment of our oneness with the Immortal Brave when thousands standing together in heartfelt Remembrance and in complete silence.

Joe Brown.

 

Learn something new every day. Thanks for posting Clive.

Cheers
Paul

 

Paul,

Yes we can all learn something new every day - mostly by just logging onto this Forum.

Nice post Clive.

Regards
Tom

 

Clive
Thank you for furthering my education!
Great post

 

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Well that's taught me something too ! and I go to Northwood nearly every week. Have to take a look soon. Many thanks for that information Clive.
Must admit I always thought that the two minutes silence was one for each World War. Learn something every day....

 

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Another interesting story from the South African Legion's web page

The Two Minute Silence at 11am on 11th November to commemorate Armistice Day (also known as Remembrance Day)

 

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