Remembrance Sunday services to take place across Shropshire
Remembrance Sunday services will be held across Shropshire this Sunday as we pause to honour those who have fallen in times of conflict.
Remembrance Sunday services will be held across Shropshire this Sunday as we pause to honour those who have fallen in times of conflict.
Church services, wreath-laying ceremonies and parades will take place in the county.
The Mayor of Shrewsbury, Councillor Miles Kenny, is calling upon members of the public to join him in attending a Remembrance Sunday service at St Chad's Church at 9.45am.
A civic procession will leave the castle at 9am following the route of Castle Gates, Castle Street, Pride Hill, Mardol Head and St John's Hill to St. Chad's Church. The Mayor, and other civic dignitaries, will walk along with units of HM Forces and Service organisations to music by the West Mercian Wing (Air Cadets) Band.
There will also be a wreath-laying ceremony at the War Memorial in the Quarry at 11am. Buglers will sound Last Post, which will be followed by two minutes silence.
A march-past and salute will follow immediately after the wreath laying ceremony on St. Chad's Terrace.
Councillor Kenny said: “We should remember the sacrifices of yesterday which allow us to enjoy our freedom of today. I hope members of the public will turn out to join me for the Remembrance service at St Chad’s, and again in the Square on November 11. Lest We Forget.”
Royal Air Force Museum Cosford is holding a service led by Station Chaplain, Padre Richard Clement. Those attending will also be treated to renditions from the Cosford Military Wives Choir, who will perform for visitors on arrival and during the service. The service will take place in the Museum’s Hangar 1 and visitors are politely requested to assemble no later than 10.30am ready for the Service to commence at 10.45am. As well as readings and hymns, a Bugler will sound ‘The Last Post’, followed by a two minute silence.
Telford and Wrekin Council's annual Remembrance Sunday event in association with the Royal British Legion and Telford Christian Council takes place at 8pm at The Place in Oakengates. There will be a parade of Standards and one hundred names will be read from the Roll of Honour.
Over 400 representatives of local organisations are expected to take part in a parade in Oswestry. The parade from the Bailey Head will be led by Porthywaen Band. A service at 11am will take place at the Memorial Gates to be led by the Rev Simon Thorburn followed by the traditional service of Remembrance in St Oswald's Parish Church. The Remembrance arrangements are coordinated by the Oswestry Branch of the Royal British Legion and the Town Council.
In Newport, a Remembrance Parade will take followed by a Church service at St Nicholas Church. The event is organised by the Newport Branch of the Royal British Legion.
Wem residents are invited to attend a Service of Remembrance at the parish church memorial from 10.50am it will be followed by a service in the church.
Ludlow's Remembrance Service at the Church of St Laurence will take place at at 10.30am. It includes a parade along Castle Street, High St, King St, Mill St and Castle St along with a wreath laying ceremony.
Town Councillors and representatives of uniformed groups will assemble in Whitchurch at the War Memorial at 10.15am to take part in the Act of Remembrance and laying of poppy wreaths. It will be followed by a parade to St Alkmund’s Church for the Service of Remembrance at 11.00am.
A parade leaves Queen Street Car Park in Market Drayton at at 10.10am, a church service will then take place at St Mary's Church from 10.45am followed by a parade from the church to the War Memorial at 11.45am which includes a war memorial service at 12 noon.
The Royal British Legion Remembrance Day Parade in Shifnal will commence at 10.30am from the War Memorial Club at Five Ways Roundabout and proceed via Victoria Road, Market Place and Church Street to a Service of Remembrance at St. Andrew's Church at 10.55am. Following the Service at 12pm, the parade will return to the War Memorial Club via Church Street and Innage Road, arriving at 12.15pm.
Philip Dunne, MP for Ludlow and Minister of State for Defence Procurement, has paid tribute to UK Armed Forces.
Mr Dunne, who often visits troops on Armed Forces bases at home and overseas in the course of his work at the Ministry of Defence, said:
“Armistice Day reminds us each year of those who have made the ultimate sacrifice for their country, and those who continue to serve today. I have been delighted to see the Royal British Legion’s Poppy Appeal so well supported again this year, reflecting the widespread respect and gratitude the public has for our Armed Forces.
"100 years ago today, Europe was in the grips of a bloody and destructive war, which devastated communities as far too few returned from the front. In almost every town and village in South Shropshire we see memorials to the fallen, a tragic reminder of the human cost of war.
"I recently visited the battlefields of Gallipoli, where I saw Commonwealth and Turkish war graves, many of young men around my children’s age, which vividly brought home how so many families lost their sons, brothers and fathers.
"It is right that we continue to recognise and value the service of men and women in our Armed Forces, who daily do their duty with professionalism, courage and integrity.”
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