The Port Alfred MOTHs held their Remembrance Day parade at the Battleaxe Shellhole, the Eddie Grant Memorial Hall last Sunday, under the relentless glare of a bold November sun. The 20 uniformed members were matched by around the same…
You would have to be about 110 years old to remember first-hand the end of ‘The War to end all Wars’. But, as Port Alfred MOTHs Chaplain Neil Scott said, there have been many more conflicts across the world, and on our continent, since…
Armed forces veterans organisation, the MOTHS (Memorable Order of Tin Hats), held Remembrance Day parades in Makhanda and Port Alfred on Sunday 13 November. Remembrance Day marks the day World War One ended, at 11am on the 11th day of the…
Ex-servicemen representing the Moths, SA Legion, SA Air Force Association, SA Navy and other military veterans laid wreaths at the Remembrance Day parade at the Port Alfred Moth Hall on Sunday November 8. The parade is always held on the…
“…Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn, At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, We Will Remember Them” Veterans of the South African armed forces met at the Port Alfred Moths Shell Hole on Sunday to commemorate…
Piper Chris Terry plays while members of the SA Legion, Moths, SA Air Force Association, First City Regiment and the First City Regimental Association lay wreaths at the Battleaxe Shellhole, Port Alfred, in memory of those who gave their…
Remembrance Day (sometimes known informally as Poppy Day) is a memorial day observed in Commonwealth of Nations member states since the end of the First World War to remember the members of their armed forces who died in the line of duty.…
