VJ Day in Market Harborough, Lutterworth & Kibworth
Written by HFM on 17th August 2020
The 75th anniversary of VJ Day and the end of the Second World War on Saturday 15th August 2020 was marked in Market Harborough, Lutterworth and Kibworth.
Thanks to Andy Carpenter (Twitter @Carps23) for the photographs
Jill Mann vice chairman of Market Harborough Royal British Legion, Stewart Harrison chairman of Market Harborough Royal British Legion and Pat Middleton chairman of the Royal Naval Association during the wreath laying for VJ Day.
PICTURE: ANDREW CARPENTER
Two minute silence during the VJ Day on the Square in Market Harborough.
PICTURE: ANDREW CARPENTER
Jill Mann vice chairman of Market Harborough Royal British Legion, Stewart Harrison chairman of Market Harborough Royal British Legion and Pat Middleton chairman of the Royal Naval Association during the wreath laying for VJ Day.
PICTURE: ANDREW CARPENTER
Jill Mann vice chairman of Market Harborough Royal British Legion, Stewart Harrison chairman of Market Harborough Royal British Legion and Pat Middleton chairman of the Royal Naval Association during the wreath laying for VJ Day.
PICTURE: ANDREW CARPENTER
Two minute silence during the VJ Day on the Square in Market Harborough.
PICTURE: ANDREW CARPENTER
Jill Mann vice chairman of Market Harborough Royal British Legion, Stewart Harrison chairman of Market Harborough Royal British Legion and Pat Middleton chairman of the Royal Naval Association during the wreath laying for VJ Day.
PICTURE: ANDREW CARPENTER
Andrew and Rebecca Rowland celebrated VJ Day in their Dover Street garden in Kibworth on Saturday. Andrew is pictured holding a picture of his father Robin Rowland who was an officer in Slim’s Fourteenth Army, fighting at the Battle of Arakan – the first significant victory against the Japanese – and then at the hell of Kohima and on through the final battles at Meiktila in Burma in 1945.
PICTURE: ANDREW CARPENTER
Andrew and Rebecca Rowland celebrated VJ Day in their Dover Street garden in Kibworth on Saturday. Andrew is pictured holding a picture of his father Robin Rowland who was an officer in Slim’s Fourteenth Army, fighting at the Battle of Arakan – the first significant victory against the Japanese – and then at the hell of Kohima and on through the final battles at Meiktila in Burma in 1945.
PICTURE: ANDREW CARPENTER
Andrew and Rebecca Rowland celebrated VJ Day in their Dover Street garden in Kibworth on Saturday. Andrew is pictured holding a picture of his father Robin Rowland who was an officer in Slim’s Fourteenth Army, fighting at the Battle of Arakan – the first significant victory against the Japanese – and then at the hell of Kohima and on through the final battles at Meiktila in Burma in 1945.
PICTURE: ANDREW CARPENTER
Lutterworth VJ Day Service on the Memorial Gardens.
PICTURE: ROB WOODWARD
Lutterworth VJ Day Service on the Memorial Gardens.
PICTURE: ROB WOODWARD
Lutterworth VJ Day Service on the Memorial Gardens.
PICTURE: ROB WOODWARD
Lutterworth VJ Day Service on the Memorial Gardens.
PICTURE: ROB WOODWARD
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