Lest we forget: Tributes paid to London Evening Standard staff who died in First and Second World Wars

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Wreaths in memoriam to those who worked for the Evening Standard were laid at the service

The annual service to pay tribute to the 58 members of the London Evening Standard staff who died during the First and Second World Wars took place at St Bride’s Church in Fleet Street at 11am on Wednesday (November 11).

The service was conducted by the Rector of St Bride’s, Reverend Canon Dr Alison Joyce in the Crypt Chapel, as London paused to remember the fallen on Armistice Day.

Rev Canon Joyce said the service was particularly moving and poignant as it reminded everyone that many of those who died fighting were not career soldiers but ordinary people who had left their jobs and families to serve their country.

Wreaths in memoriam to those who worked for the Evening Standard were laid by London Standard Editor Emeritus Doug Wills, deputy editor Harriet Addison, former Evening Standard circulation executive Graham Read and a former representative of the Standard van drivers.

Ms Addison read the names of the Standard staff who died during the wars from a book of remembrance that is permanently on display in the chapel along with a memorial to them.

The service - attended by current and former staff members of the Standard - was supported by Lord Lebedev, proprietor of the Standard, and former proprietor of the Standard Lord Rothermere.

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