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St Peter Port Douzaine is staging commemorative events for Sir Isaac Brock over the next couple of weekends.
The parish has organised a commemoration service for the birth of Major General Sir Isaac Brock during today's Evensong in the Town Church at 18:00.
Brock was one of Guernsey’s most famous sons whose gallant leadership in 1812 at the Battle of Queenston Heights helped secure Canada from another American invasion for the remainder of time.
Sir Isaac was one of Guernsey’s most famous sons whose gallant leadership in 1812 at the Battle of Queenston Heights helped secure Canada from another American invasion for the remainder of time.
Pictured: Dennis Le Moignan is the Senior Constable of St Peter Port.
This year also coincides with the 250th anniversary of his birth and the parish has organised a separate celebration of this today, Sunday 6 October.
The Boys’ Brigade band will play fife and drum music appropriate to the time and the focus of the event will be a 20 minute play by the History in Action Company about Brock. This is timed to start at noon outside Boots the Chemist at the top of High Street, the building where Brock lived.
At 12:30 on 13 October, the parish will commemorate his death at Queenston Heights, by gathering outside Boots, where Brock lived, and lay a wreath on the building above the main doors.
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