Emotional exhibition honours village's wartime community spirit

Saxlingham Remembers, 1914-1918, in the village hall at Saxlingham Nethergate, will be opened at 11am on Saturday November 9 by the Bishop of Norwich, the Rt Rev Graham Usher, and will continue throughout the weekend.

It will mark the recent restoration work undertaken at the War Memorial and pay tribute to the 16 men from the village who went to fight in the war and never returned.

So much work and thought has been put into organising this very special event which will include 16 readings of poems by First World War poets in moments of quiet on the hour.

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Readers will include family relatives, cricketers, bellringers, a 17-year-old (the age of the youngest man who served and died), two children from the village school and the Bishop of Norwich.

There will a continuous rolling........

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