Ross-shire remembers as communities honour sacrifice and service
ACTS of remembrance are being staged across Ross-shire.
Amongst those honouring the service and sacrifice of those who have served in the armed forces is an Avoch-based bagpiper and veteran who suffers from post-traumatic stress syndrome and now helps to raise funds for Poppyscotland.
Ali Duff, better known to many as the Hairy Piper, this week paid his own act of tribute outside Fodderty Cemetery near Strathpeffer and at Balblair War Memorial outside Beauly.
Dingwall High Street will be the focus of a service on Remembrance Sunday (November 10).
A parade will form in from of Dingwall Town Hall at 10.30am before marching to the War Memorial at 10.45am. An act of remembrance will then be staged at 11am to which all are respectfully invited.
Lord-Lieutenant of Ross and Cromarty, Joanie Whiteford, has thanked the Dingwall O.A.Ps at Work group for sprucing up the Dingwall War Memorial ahead of Sunday’s service.
This involved weeding and painting the Poppy on the slabs.
The Seaboard Centre staged its annual remembrance service yesterday. It posted: “Great to see such a big crowd from the villages and many wreaths laid in Remembrance. Lest we Forget.”
Mrs Whiteford attended the event and said later: “Rev Andrew MacLeod led a very poignant Remembrance Service in The Seaboard Centre.
“Well done to the pupils from Hilton of Cadboll Primary School who read In Flanders Fields which was written during the First World War by Canadian physician Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae.”
