Armistice Day cake gift for Pulteney House

RESIDENTS at Pulteney House care home in Wick had an Armistice Day to remember thanks to local baker Anne Campbell.

Anne – who runs her own baking company called Cake-A-Licious – created a specially themed cake for the Royal British Legion Scotland veterans after Sunday's Remembrance Day parade in the town.

The RBLS organisers thought the cake would be better served by going to another good cause and on Monday morning – fittingly, Armistice Day – the cake was given over to the residents of Pulteney House care home in North Murchison Street.

The cake was decorated with poppies and the silhouette of a British soldier from the Great War and emblazoned with the words "Lest we forget" as a tribute to the fallen.

It also had a very personal significance for Anne. "The cake is a connection to military in my own family," she said.

"I lost my great-grandad in HMS Invincible during World War I. He was a Royal Naval reservist and lost his life when his ship was sunk."

Anne's father did national service in Gibraltar and now her son, Lieutenant Stuart Campbell, serves on HMS Defender.

She said she proudly attends every Remembrance Day service in the town and last year donated poppy cupcakes to Mackays Hotel for handing out out on the street – the remainder being eaten at a special morning tea event in the hotel after the parade.

Murray Lamont, owner of Mackays Hotel, attended and expressed his delight at seeing the cake given to the home. "I have to rush back down for the Armistice Day event now," he announced at 10.45am.

With not a moment to spare he made it to the town's war memorial and stood in reverence braving the elements with several others for the two-minute silence at 11am.

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