D-Day Anniversary event 6th June
Wootton Basset Town Council are hosting a D-Day 80th Anniversary event that we are hosting on Thursday 6th June 2024 from 6.30pm – 9.30pm, at Royal Wootton Bassett Rugby Football Club, Ballard’s Ash, Malmesbury Road, Royal Wootton Bassett, SN4 8DS.
This is a FREE Community outdoor event for all the family to commemorate the 80th Anniversary of the D-Day landings.
41 Degrees will be headlining the event, also featuring The Wessex Male Choir, and Cantanti Choir. Scarrotts will have a small selection of fairground attractions for the children, there will be vintage cars on display. Drinks will be available to purchase from the Rugby club’s mobile bar.
The food available to purchase will be lovely fish and chips, for a very specific reason. This is a nod to the significant role fish and chips played to ensure the safety of our troops on foreign soil. Soldiers aware of others in the vicinity, and not knowing if friend or foe, called out ‘Fish’. If the response was ‘Chips’ he was certain the unseen person was a friend. It is also National Fish and Chips Day!
The lighting of the Beacon is taking place throughout the United Kingdom, Channel Islands, Isle of Man and UK Overseas Territories and will be lit at 9.15pm, which is when we will be lighting ours after a tribute is read by the mayor.
