Anguilla’s Chief Minister, Mr Hubert Hughes, now back from a special service in Glasgow, Scotland, commemorating the 100 Anniversary of the start of the First World War, said it was a “moving occasion.”
“I left Anguilla on the 4th of August to attend a special ceremony: the commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the start of the First World War which was in 1914,” he reported. He was at the time speaking at a service at St Augustine’s Anglican Church on Friday, August 8, celebrating the 100th Birthday of Anguillian, Mrs Irene Lake, who was born on 8th August 1914.
“Twice in a hundred years, Germany waged war against the rest of humanity; and twice in that hundred years, it was Britain which actually saved the day,” Mr Hughes said. “Britain is a small country, much smaller than Germany, but yet she was not afraid to wage war on Germany for what she was proud to do for the rest of the world; and she had the rest of the Commonwealth behind her.
“So I felt very happy that the Lord Provost of Scotland invited me to attend that commemorative service in Glasgow, Scotland. It was a very moving occasion.
“When you think about the hundreds of thousands, probably millions, of young people who gave their lives that we might be free, we have a lot to be grateful for. It was sad to know that they had to do it, but they did it in the interest of western democracy – in the interest of prosperity for all of us. We are proud that we in Anguilla played a role in those two world wars. We had people who died and we had people who were injured in those two world wars. So we celebrated with the rest of the Commonwealth on that moving occasion.”
