The Provincial Grand Lodge of Stirlingshire

Even through these trying times the Brethren paid fitting tribute to the fallen on Remembrance Sunday. Lodges such as Lodge Craiginnan Dollar No 850, Lodge Callendar No 588, Lodge Buchanan Killearn 1419 and Lodge Camelon No 1456 donated direct to Poppy Scotland rather than lay wreaths this year, whilst other Lodges continued to lay wreaths at local memorials. Picture below are a few.

.A number of Lodge Bannockburn Bruce and Thistle No 312 Brethren attended the local Cenotaph in Bannockburn.

RWM Brother John Russell and PM Brother Sandy Todd laid wreaths on behalf of Lodge Zetland No 391 and Dundas RAC at the Grangemouth Cenotaph and also donated direct to Poppy Scotland.

RWM Brother Norman Bridgeman, Lodge of Alloa No 69, had the privilege to lay a poppy wreath on behalf of the Brethren of the Lodge at the War Memorial in Alloa.

RWM Brother David Morris and DM Brother Victor MacGrain laid a Poppy Scotland Wreath at Bonnybridge Memorial Gardens on behalf of Lodge Dolphin No 911.

Brother John Curry had the privilege of laying the wreath at the Cenotaph on behalf of the Brethren of Lodge Polmont No 793.

Brothers John Bartle and Alex Campbell laid a wreath on behalf of the RWM, Office Bearers and Brethren of Lodge Clackmannan No 1303.

Lodge St John Tulliallan No 598 laid a wreath at the Kincardine Memorial

RWM Brother Jim Wilson laid at wreath on behalf of Lodge St Andrew (Denny and Loanhead) No 176 at the Denny & Dunipace War Memorial and WJW Brother Ian McVicar produced a number of different sized poppies from recycled wood including the one pictured.

The Almoner of Lodge Carron No 139 Brother Charlie MacVicar along with other Brethren and on behalf of the Lodge visited several local Cenotaphs and Monuments to pay their respects to the Fallen and PM Brother Ian Barron laid a wreath on behalf at the Dobbie Hall, Larbert.

I am sure many Brethren, throughout the Province and beyond, will have made individual donations to Poppy Scotland, which i know will be gratefully accepted and faithfully applied, and will have paid their own respects in one way or another.

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.