She’s a physician with a voice.

Joanna Sherratt-Wyer is taking centre stage with the Bermuda Chamber Choir & Orchestra this weekend.

The concert, ‘We Will Remember’, commemorates the 100th anniversary of the commencement of First World War.

It carries a special meaning for Dr Sherratt-Wyer, a soloist in the concert.

She and her husband Martin Wyer served in the Royal Air Force for several years until they relocated to Bermuda in 2011. Major Wyer has since continued his military career, as the Bermuda Regiment training officer.

“The idea behind this is it’s a commemoration of people who died through the world wars, but especially the First World War,” she said. “I served in the RAF for seven-and-a-half years and my husband for 25-and-a-half years. I was a medical officer so I was lucky I didn’t see any active duty but I looked after the soldiers before they went and after they returned with trauma — physical and psychological injuries — and so the concert is poignant for me. It’s a battle cry against war.”

The concert is being held under the patronage of the Regiment’s Commanding Officer, Lt Col Michael Foster-Brown and his wife, Jo.

The featured work will be ‘The Armed Man’. It was commissioned by the Royal Armouries Museum for the Millennium celebrations to mark the museum’s move from London to Leeds, and dedicated to victims of the Kosovo crisis.

“For me what’s incredibly moving is that it speaks to anyone who’s known any kind of loss, especially as we head into the holiday season,” said Dr Sherratt, who today runs a private practice Somers Medical Services Ltd. “It’s important to remember [the world wars] because of the scale of loss — entire families disappeared, entire villages. So it’s a reminder to how senseless some of this can be. How loss of life can be so senseless.”

That loss should resonate with people on the Island even today, she added.

“There are Bermudian families with family members in the military here and overseas — in the US Army, in the UK, in the Canadian Army.

“They’re still going into war zones. It’s still relevant to us and is poignant for me, having seen the devastation — the people who didn’t come back and those who did but with terrible injury.”

The concert takes place at St Paul’s Church, Paget on Saturday at 7.30pm and Sunday, at 4pm. Tickets, $55 for sponsors, $35 for general admission and $20 for students, are available at www.ptix.bm, from Bermuda Bookstore, choir members and at the door.