{"id":743752,"date":"2019-11-13T16:24:49","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T16:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/11\/13\/only-116-wwii-veterans-alive\/"},"modified":"2019-11-13T16:24:49","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T16:24:49","slug":"only-116-wwii-veterans-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/11\/13\/only-116-wwii-veterans-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"Only 116 WWII Veterans Alive"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>\n

\n

Vice President Bawumia taking a salute from one of the veterans<\/strong><\/p>\n

Of the surviving
\n123 Ghanaian WWII veteransin
\n2015 only 116 are alive today, DAILY GUIDE<\/em><\/strong> has learnt, the numbers
\nhaving dropped over the years. The survivors last Monday, joined their
\ncolleagues across the world to mark the 74th<\/sup> Poppy Appeal and
\nRemembrance Day Service for soldiers who died during the two world wars.<\/p>\n

Vice President
\nBawumia joined serving and ex-service men, members of the diplomatic corps,
\nchiefs and section of Ghanaians to mark the occasion at the Christiansburg War
\nCemetery at Osu, Accra.<\/p>\n

The Remembrance
\nDay, which falls on November 11, each year, is set aside to remember Ghanaian veterans
\nand others who lost their lives in the course of the two infamous world wars.<\/p>\n

Remembrance Day is
\nobserved in Commonwealth of Nations\u2019 member states since the end of the First
\nWorld War, to remember the members of their Armed Forces who died in their line
\nof duty.<\/p>\n

In 1918, the Armistice
\nwhich ended World War One became effective at 11am of the November 11, 1918,
\nwhen the guns fell silent in the Western Front in France and Belgium and four
\nyears of hostilities ended. The day was called the Armistice Day. Ghana, then
\nGod Coast and being part of the British Empire also sent its sons oversees to
\nfight in this war and some lost their lives.<\/p>\n

After World War
\nII, the Armistice Day was renamed Remembrance Day to remember those who were
\nkilled in both World Wars and instituted as a National Day of Remembrance.<\/p>\n

At 10:56 hours,
\nthere was the Call to Remembrance and the Sounding of the Farewell Call. <\/p>\n

This was followed
\nby blowing of the Siren at 1100 hours, the reading of the Bunion Verses, the
\nsounding of the last post, a two minutes silence and the reveille.<\/p>\n

Dr Bawumia laid
\nthe first wreath on behalf of the government and the people of Ghana.<\/p>\n

Mr Iain Walker,
\nBritish High Commissioner, laid the second wreath for the Commonwealth and
\nAllied Countries while the Russian Ambassador to Ghana who is also the Dean of
\nthe Diplomatic Corps, Mr Dimitry Suslove, laid the third wreath on behalf of
\nthe Diplomatic Community.<\/p>\n

Lieutenant General
\nObed Boamah Akwa, the Chief of Defence Staff, laid the fourth wreath on behalf
\nof the Ghana Armed Forces and other Security Agencies while Major General C B
\nYaache Rtd, Chairman of the Veterans Administration of Ghana, laid the fifth
\nwreath on behalf of the veterans of Ghana.<\/p>\n

Nii Okwei Kinka
\nDowuona VI, the Paramount Chief of Osu and President of the Greater Accra
\nRegional House of Chiefs, laid the sixth wreath on behalf of all traditional
\nrulers in Ghana.<\/p>\n

Cemetery<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Christiansburg War Cemetery contains 419 remains of Second World War Casualties which is made up of 357 West Africans, 50 British, eight Canadians, two Italians, one Australian and one Polish.<\/p>\n

By Charles Takyi-Boadu, Presidential Correspondent <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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