Duke and Duchess of Gloucester join VJ Day service at Norwich Cathedral

The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester joined a VJ Day service at Norwich Cathedral.

The special service was organised in partnership with the National FEPOW (Far East Prisoners of War) Fellowship Welfare Remembrance Association. The Duke of Glouster is the Royal Patron of the association.

The Dean of Norwich, the Very Revd Dr Andrew Braddock, said, “The VJ Day service was an opportunity to remember the enormous human cost of the Second World War and its ending, both across the world and in successive generations. We remember the fortitude of those who were prisoners of war in the Far East, subjected to unimaginable pain and torment, and the part played by all the people of our nation and Commonwealth in the shared conviction that oppression and tyranny must not prevail.”

Earlier today, The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester attended the Far East Prisoners of War VJ Day 80th Anniversary Service at Norwich Cathedral.

Later in Suffolk, Their Royal Highnesses also joined a commemorative service dedicated to the Children and Families of the Far East… pic.twitter.com/U277zwHlHJ

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The Duke of Gloucester laid a wreath during the service, alongside Olga Henderson, who was representing the National FEPOW Fellowship Welfare Remembrance Association, and The Lord Dannatt GCB CBE MC, on behalf of the Veterans of Norfolk.

The Duke and Duchess joined a reception in the Cloister after the service to speak with civilian internees, family members of Far East prisoners of war and representatives of the National FEPOW Fellowship Welfare Remembrance Association (NFFWRA).