| Where: | Countrywide |
| When: | Sunday nearest 11th November |
| Time: | All day - parades usually 10am or 10.30 |
Remembrance Sunday is the day on which the whole nation remembers the servicemen and women of the First and Second World Wars and all subsequent conflicts, who gave their lives in the service of their country. It is the Sunday nearest to Armistice Day, 11th November, the day on which the First World War ended and on which commemorative events used to be focused before the creation of Remembrance Sunday (which of course always falls on a weekend and is thus easier to manage). Parades march by, wreaths are laid at War Memorials, the Last Post sounds and a two-minute silence is observed in memory of the fallen. Just about every settlement in the country has a War Memorial and associated ceremony and it is an event which is relevant to almost everyone.
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In 2024 it will be on Sunday November 10th.
My photos are from Corbridge in 2011, and in 2018 for the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I.
For more about the poppy appeal click here : http://www.britishlegion.org.uk/
I have just returned from the square in Corbridge, were a large crowd of people stood around before and after the two minutes silence waiting for a parade, no parade appeared and no British Legion to tell anyone what was happening, well done.
The parade usually leaves from outside the Club on St Helens Street at 10, then goes around to Main Street and back along to the Market Place ready to file into the church in time for the service which goes in at about 1/4 to 11, so at Corbridge at 11 the British Legion & parade should be in the church. I wasn’t there myself this time but that’s usually what happens, and there were signs up about the road closure for the parade on Main Street a few days ago. They also had an act of Remembrance at the Lych Gate outside the church at 11 am on Saturday for Armistice Day. Better luck next time!