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Bury St Edmunds care homes invites local community to honour D-Day
Two Bury St Edmunds care homes are opening their doors to the community for commemorative ceremony’s. To commemorate the Normandy Landings on 6th June 1944, Care UK is partnering with royal pageant master Bruno Peek, CVO OBE OPR, coordinator of ‘D-Day 80 Lamp Light of Peace’. Along with charities supporting the three forces and the Merchant Navy Association, over 100 Care UK homes will take part in this nationwide tribute.
At Glastonbury Court, the team have been hard at work organising a special event which will see residents and guests enjoy a 1940s-themed party, complete with bunting, flags, and popular wartime songs from Caprice Duo. Team members will be dressed in wartime clothes and the culinary team will serve a delicious afternoon tea, street party style, featuring sandwiches, homemade scones with cream and jam and themed cupcakes. Everyone in attendance will also be able to enter a fundraising raffle for Help for Heroes.
On the day, RAF veteran 85-year-old Peter Copping, husband of resident Phyllis Copping, will be presenting the D-Day Coin to Ernest Osbourne, 92, Tom Shipley, 97, Ken Dunn, 94 and Peter Dorrington, 89, all residents at Glastonbury Court who served in the RAF and Army for national service.
While at Davers Court, the team will be hosting a garden party with vintage singers Barrie and Pete, who will be performing from 11am, and a garden party buffet, serving the likes of quiche, sandwiches, salads, and Suffolk cheese. For pudding there will be Victoria sponge, homemade scones, strawberries, and cream. Guests will also be able to enjoy Pimm’s, gin & tonic, beer and a selection of soft drinks.
The lamp, which represents the peace that followed the end of World War Two, will be lit at Glastonbury Court at 5pm by resident Peter Donnington who served in Singapore for the RAF. At Davers Court the lamp will be lit at 4:30pm, by resident Richard Hoad, aged 87, who served in the RAF and was a guard of honour.
At Glastonbury Court, the team have been hard at work organising a special event which will see residents and guests enjoy a 1940s-themed party, complete with bunting, flags, and popular wartime songs from Caprice Duo. Team members will be dressed in wartime clothes and the culinary team will serve a delicious afternoon tea, street party style, featuring sandwiches, homemade scones with cream and jam and themed cupcakes. Everyone in attendance will also be able to enter a fundraising raffle for Help for Heroes.
On the day, RAF veteran 85-year-old Peter Copping, husband of resident Phyllis Copping, will be presenting the D-Day Coin to Ernest Osbourne, 92, Tom Shipley, 97, Ken Dunn, 94 and Peter Dorrington, 89, all residents at Glastonbury Court who served in the RAF and Army for national service.
While at Davers Court, the team will be hosting a garden party with vintage singers Barrie and Pete, who will be performing from 11am, and a garden party buffet, serving the likes of quiche, sandwiches, salads, and Suffolk cheese. For pudding there will be Victoria sponge, homemade scones, strawberries, and cream. Guests will also be able to enjoy Pimm’s, gin & tonic, beer and a selection of soft drinks.
The lamp, which represents the peace that followed the end of World War Two, will be lit at Glastonbury Court at 5pm by resident Peter Donnington who served in Singapore for the RAF. At Davers Court the lamp will be lit at 4:30pm, by resident Richard Hoad, aged 87, who served in the RAF and was a guard of honour.
On Thursday 6th June, from 11am - 3pm, Care UK’s Davers Court, on Shakers Lane, and Glastonbury Court, on Glastonbury Road, are welcoming local people to honour the 80th anniversary of D-Day with its very own lamp lighting ceremony.
Glastonbury Court, Glastonbury Rd, Bury Saint Edmunds, Norfolk IP33 2EX
Thu 6 June
Website:
careuk.com/dday-80th-anniversary