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Sadly, each year former, and sometimes current, students and staff of the University die, occasionally in tragic circumstances. For staff, the University may have been the place where they spent many years, and colleagues who are left want to recognize their contribution to the University community and feel they are not forgotten. Their family, too, may wish to remember the connection their loved one had with the University. For students, the University is often the common link between them: wherever they have come from or moved on to, their time at the University is what binds them together. The death of a current student or member of staff highlights the importance of a place where friends and colleagues can go to mourn their loss and remember the person who has died.
Service of Remembrance & Thanksgiving Each year a short service is held at 10.45 am on the 11th November, Armistice day, in the Garden of Remembrance. A period of silence is kept at 11.00 o'clock, when we remember those who have lost their lives in war plus students and staff of the University and Colleges who have died and whose lives we give thanks for.
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University has set aside an enclosed area adjacent to the Walled Garden near the
Edward Herbert Building as a place where people who have died can be remembered.
The area has been developed as a Garden of Remembrance with the support of the
University, the Development Trust, students, staff, departments and alumni, and
has been designed to offer a peaceful and reflective atmosphere. There are
benches to allow people simply to sit and remember, and there is provision for
plaques showing the name and details of the person who has died to be fixed to
one of the walls. The University hopes that by providing such a place, those who
have lost family, friends or colleagues will feel that they can continue to
acknowledge the part they played in their lives and the contribution they made
to the life of the University.
