Tuesday, January 25, 2022

Burns Night

Tuesday, January 25, is Burns Night throughout the British Isles, celebrating the the life and work of  Scotland's national poet, Robert Burns.  This evening we went to a concert performed by the Band of the Scots Guard.  The performance took place inside the Royal Military Chapel, close to Buckingham Palace, the site of a horrific incident during WW2.

On June 18, 1944, while the Chapel was packed with the prayerful for morning service, a German V1 flying bomb struck the building.  121 soldiers and civilians were killed and many more injured. The Chapel was rebuilt in 1963.











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