Every November, we highlight a selection of St Michael’s Remembrance links to World War 1 and World War 2, and the 128 names on our war memorials. See their stories and pictures on our WW1 Project website, backed by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

Last year we focussed on ‘Chiswick Women in War’ (right) with an exhibition online and in the church, in memory of David Beresford, who led the WW1 Project and carried out the research.

In 2022. we marked Remembrance Day, Friday November 11th, with a reading of Cosmo’s War, a play by Bernard Adams, based on the WW1 letters of the artist Cosmo Clark, to and from his family at 44 Rusthall Avenue, Bedford Park. See photograph below, by Jim Cox. The title role was taken by Jamie White, a former member of our Youth Church, who took part in a recent Royal British Legion Poppy Run. The production raise money for another veterans’ charity, Combat Stress.

2021 was the Centenary of the Royal British Legion and the Poppy Appeal. We displayed more than 500 poppies knitted by the congregation, on the Parish Memorial screen. See photos of our 2021 Remembrance Sunday Requiem Mass here and read Fr Kevin’s sermon here.