It was a great privilege to receive the phone call from Bishop Robert (our Bishop in the Diocese in Europe) to offer me the position of Chaplain of St Geor...

We are reminded today of the sacrifice made by these men from the other side of the world who left all that was dear to them to serve on the Western Fro...

Ukraine, Israel, and Palestine... these get the headlines, but don’t forget about North Korea, Syria, Iran, India and Pakistan, the DRC. The point is, th...

As someone who is currently researching Ypres as a memory site; as a place of competing narratives about the war and its meaning where each combatant natio...

Advent is a season of expectation as the Church prepares to celebrate the coming (adventus) of Christ among us and also looks ahead to His second coming at...

Many will remember the Poppy Cascade in situ for Armistice 2018 & 2019. John Arnold has shared the following update with Emma Crofton about what has ha...

In recent months, the Last Post Association has done everything possible to ensure the continuity of the daily Last Post ceremony. Now that the corona regu...

The Last Post Association has been kind enough to share this footage of the Last Post being sounded under current restrictions. It is particularly moving b...

With the developing nature of the global pandemic and to adhere to local regulations, St George's will remain closed until further notice. Services that ha...

Our wonderful Poppy Cascade is back- with a special reference to our 90th anniversary. It will be on display from now until just after Armistice Day.

St George's Memorial Church and the Eton Memorial School was dedicated by the Rt Reverend Lord Bishop of Fulham on 24th March 1919. The 90th anniversary of...

The Stad Ieper Standard is the gift of the British Royal Regiment of Artillery through its Association to the People of Belgium, in thanks for their Rememb...

The Poppy Cascade is now complete and has been blessed by the Area Dean, Rev Stephen Murray, assisted by Rev Philip Edell.

It has only bee...

There has been an amazing response to my appeal for people to make me a

poppy with which to decorate St George's Memorial Church, Ypres. To date th...

Poppies should be made in red yarn by knitting or crocheting; or cut out of red felt using the template. The felt...

In 2018 a variety of creative projects have been launched to mark the centenary of the Armistice. One such project is the “There But Not There” campaig...

The ministry of St George’s memorial church is not like that of a typical parish church in the UK. It is a place where remarkable events and encounters t...

Anglicanism is a modern term, only in common usage from the 19th century: beforehand the term Church of England was used to refer to the English Church esta...

On Saturday 21st April I took part in the Rededication of two headstones for two Australian soldiers of the Great War. This took place as part of the cycle...

St Georges Memorial Church Bellringers Ypres, have just finished their third session of training with the ART team of trainers from the UK led by Clare McA...

“I ONCE WAS LOST BUT NOW AM FOUND ... AND GRACE WILL LEAD ME HOME” reads the very poignant epitaph on Pte. Edmundson's new headstone.

On Wednes...

The Doox Book: The story of a mother's love

Last Friday I took part in making an inventory of all the church plate and valuables for the annual rep...

The Bellringing training at St George's church has been moving ahead apace this week. The bellringing instructors have been teaching three groups of ringer...

On 17th December, St George’s Church celebrated its Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols. In this service the story of the Nativity was retold through rea...

Only Remembered: Armistice and Remembrance at St George’s Church 2017

Fading away like the stars in the morning,
Losing their light in the ...

The Blessing of the Bells service took place on Sunday 22nd October and was attended by 200 people..There was a Procession of Standards led by the Rt Revd ...

On the 30th August the vehicles travelled, under their own power, from Tyne Cot Cemetery to the Menin Gate via Hooge Crater Cemetery, Perth Cemetery (China...

The bells spent the weekend at the Great Dorset Steam Fair and got a very good send off to Ypres via a WW1 military escort.

There is a piece of kit used by all British and French soldiers that defines the Great War in my mind, capturing it in time and space. It delineates it fro...

Many of you will know about this ongoing project, but as a reminder, an outline of it objectives were as follows:

Installation of a new set of ...