On This Day, 3 August 1918

Birmingham Mail 

Saturday 3 August 1918

“REMEMBRANCE DAY”

TO-MORROW’S CELEBRATIONS IN BIRMINGHAM

To-morrow, the fourth anniversary of the entry of Great Britain into the war, will be observed as “Remembrance Day” in Birmingham, as in other parts of the Kingdom. Special services will held in the places of worship, and the Lord Mayor (Sir David Brooks) will attend in State the Cathedral in the morning and the Parish Church in the evening.

In the afternoon there is to be a united open-air service in Victoria Square. The arrangements for this have already been announced.

The following letter has been received from the Bishop of Birmingham in commendation of the licensed trade’s action in closing throughout tomorrow:- “I need hardly say that l am pleased with the action taken by the Greater Birmingham Licensed Trade Committee, and I may add that I am not surprised. In this, and in many other ways, the patriotism of your trade has proved itself during this war, and I am grateful to you for the help you thereby give to the determination of the nation to give its best effort in this righteous war.”