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A member of the Canadian Armed Forces puts debris in a simulated limb to demonstrate to Armed Forces of Ukraine members how to properly clean it out at Operation UNIFIER’s Medical Training Element, in Poland, on 29 November 2024.
Photo by: Canadian Armed Forces Imagery Technician
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Un membre des Forces armées canadiennes insère des débris dans un membre simulé pour montrer aux membres des forces armées ukrainiennes comment le nettoyer correctement, à l’élément d’instruction médicale de l’opération UNIFIER en Pologne, le 29 novembre 2024.
Photo : Technicien en imagerie des Forces armées canadiennes
The 2017 Armed Forces Wrestling Championship held 25-26 Feb at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey. Army wins their 16th straight Armed Forces Greco-Roman title, with Marines winning silver along with USAF and Navy placing 3rd and 4th respectively.
BIL'IN, OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORY
An Israeli Army Platoon, marching into Bil'in, firing tear gas.
March 5th, 2010
Latvian Special Forces climb and clear a flight of stairs in a simulated urban environment during Exercise Northern Strike 2023 on Camp Grayling, Michigan, Aug. 14, 2023.
Michigan-Latvia state partnership invites Latvian soldiers to attend NS23, giving them the opportunity test themselves through challenging and realistic scenarios.
U.S. Army National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Drake Chandler
Lorena and Black Sun by Isamu Noguchi near the Seattle Asian Art Museum, Volunteer Park, City of Seattle, Washington, USA
The first of 17 new CC-130J Hercules aircraft landed at Canadian Forces Base (CFB) Trenton on Friday, June 4, 2010. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrien Veczan
Lt. Cmdr. Katherine Irgens, front, the All-Navy women’s team captain, competes in the 2025 Armed Forces Women’s Cross Country Championship at Windcrest Golf Club in Windcrest, Texas, on Jan. 25, 2025. The top five female finishers will earn a spot in the International Military Sports Council (CISM) World Winter Games in Lucerne, Switzerland on March 21. (Department of Defense photo by MC1 Colby A. Mothershead)
Forces I +, performance conclusiva del workshop organizzato in collaborazione con la compagnia di danza Compagnie de l'estuaire, l'associazione ZoeTeatro, la coreografa svizzera Nathalie Tacchella, la danzatrice italiana Amina Amici e i ragazz* che hanno partecipato a questo progetto, presso lo SpazioZUT
Nam June Paik, Born Seoul, Korea 1932-
died Miami Beach, FL 2006
Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii, 1995, fifty-one channel video installation (including one closed-circuit television feed), custom electronics, neon lighting, steel and wood; color, sound, approx. 15 x 40 x 4 ft.,
Paik predicted, in 1965, that "someday artists will work with capacitors, resistors, and semiconductors as they work today with brushes, violins and junk." Over the decades, his own work stayed in constant conversation with how new technologies reshape the world. Electronic Superhighway playfully engages three such forces--the US interstate highway system, cable television, and the emergent internet of the 1990s.
In this TV map, neon-outlined states play a mix of borrowed and original footage. Each distinct channel reveals Paik's associations with or understanding of that state. Some video collages draw from personal connections, like Paik's recordings of longtime collaborator and cellist Charlotte Moorman filling the screens in her home state of Arkansas (along with images of then president Bill Clinton, also from Arkansas). Others incorporate existing media representations, with the movie musical Oklahoma! filling Oklahoma, and edits from a documentary on the 1950s Montgomery bus boycotts echoing from Alabama. A closed-circuit camera marks Washington, DC, where gallery visitors can see themselves in real time. This suggests the map is also a portrait, reflecting how media and mediation shape views of ourselves and each other at national, regional, and individual levels.
Audio Note: Synced television sounds match a handful of states' channels, so the audio spreads and blends across the length of the map. At different moments, various soundtracks become louder and dominate; at other times it is a noisy collage. The appropriated movie musicals--Oklahoma! in Oklahoma, Meet Me in St. Louis in Missouri, and The Wizard of Oz in Kansas--are each audible when standing nearby and as their songs reach a crescendo. Uniquely, the audio related to the Montgomery bus boycotts, which includes speeches by Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., plays through speakers on both sides of the map, not just near Alabama, making it the most prominent and legible part of the sound mix.
Nam June Paik (1932–2006), internationally recognized as the "Father of Video Art," created a large body of work including video sculptures, installations, performances, videotapes and television productions. He had a global presence and influence, and his innovative art and visionary ideas continue to inspire a new generation of artists.
Born in 1932 in Seoul, Korea, to a wealthy industrial family, Paik and his family fled Korea in 1950 at the outset of the Korean War, first to Hong Kong, then to Japan. Paik graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1956, and then traveled to Germany to pursue his interest in avant-garde music, composition and performance. There he met John Cage and George Maciunas and became a member of the neo-dada Fluxus movement. In 1963, Paik had his legendary one-artist exhibition at the Galerie Parnass in Wuppertal, Germany, that featured his prepared television sets, which radically altered the look and content of television.
After immigrating to the United States in 1964, he settled in New York City where he expanded his engagement with video and television, and had exhibitions of his work at the New School, Galerie Bonino and the Howard Wise Gallery. In 1965, Paik was one of the first artists to use a portable video camcorder. In 1969, he worked with the Japanese engineer Shuya Abe to construct an early video-synthesizer that allowed Paik to combine and manipulate images from different sources. The Paik-Abe video synthesizer transformed electronic moving-image making. Paik invented a new artistic medium with television and video, creating an astonishing range of artworks, from his seminal videotape Global Groove (1973) that broke new ground, to his sculptures TV Buddha (1974), and TV Cello (1971); to installations such as TV Garden (1974), Video Fish (1975) and Fin de Siecle II (1989); videotapes Living with the Living Theatre (1989) and Guadalcanal Requiem (1977/1979); and global satellite television productions such as Good Morning Mr. Orwell, which broadcast from the Centre Pompidou in Paris and a WNET-TV studio in New York City Jan. 1, 1984.
Paik has been the subject of numerous exhibitions, including two major retrospectives, and has been featured in major international art exhibitions including Documenta, the Venice Biennale and the Whitney Biennial. The Nam June Paik Art Center opened in a suburb of Seoul, South Korea, in 2008.
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"Women, queer artists, and artists of color have finally become the protagonists of recent American art history rather than its supporting characters. This is the lesson to be learned from the programming at New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art since it reopened in 2015, and it is now the big takeaway in the nation’s capital, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, whose contemporary art galleries have reopened after a two-year closure.
During that time, architect Annabelle Selldorf refurbished these galleries, which have the challenge of pushing art history’s limits without going too far. Her interventions in these spaces are fairly inoffensive. Mainly, she’s pared down some of the structural clutter, removing some walls that once broke up a long, marble-floored hallway. To the naked eye, the galleries are only slightly different.
What is contained within, however, has shifted more noticeably—and is likely to influence other museums endeavoring to diversify their galleries. For one thing, I have never encountered a permanent collection hang with more Latinx and Native American artists, who, until very recently, were severely under-represented in US museums. That unto itself is notable.
It is a joy to see, presiding over one tall gallery, three gigantic beaded tunics courtesy of Jeffrey Gibson, a Choctaw artist who will represent the US at the next Venice Biennale. Printed with bombastic patterning and hung on tipi poles, they hang over viewers’ heads and allude to the Ghost Shirts used by members of the Sioux to reach ancestral spirits. One says on it “WITHOUT YOU I’M NOTHING.” That statement can also be seen as a confession on behalf of SAAM’s curators to the artists now included in this rehang: a multiplicity of perspectives is more nourishing than having just one.
Something similar can be seen in Judith F. Baca’s Las Tres Marías (1976). The installation features a drawing of a shy-looking chola on one side and an image of Baca as a tough-as-nails Pachuca on the other. These are both Chicana personae—the former from the ’70s, the latter from the ’40s—and the third component, a long looking glass, sutures the viewer into the piece. It’s no surprise this piece is shaped like a folding mirror, an item used to examine how one may present to the outside world. Baca suggests that a single reflection isn’t enough. To truly understand one’s self, many are needed.
It is hardly as though the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s collection ever lacked diversity. Nam June Paik’s Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii (2002), a video installation featuring a map of the country with each state’s borders containing TV monitors, is a crown jewel of the collection. It has returned once more, where it now faces a 2020 Tiffany Chung piece showing a United States strung with thread. So, too, has Alma Thomas’s magnum opus, Red Azaleas Singing and Dancing Rock and Roll Music (1976), a three-part stunner showing an array of petal-like red swatches drifting across white space.
But the usual heroes of 20th century art history are notably absent. Partly, that is because the Smithsonian American Art Museum doesn’t own notable works by canonical figures like Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, and Robert Rauschenberg. (For those artists, you’d have to head to the National Gallery of Art.) Yet it is also partly because the curators want to destabilize the accepted lineage of postwar American art, shaking things up a bit and seeing where they land.
There is, of course, the expected Abstract Expressionism gallery, and while works by Willem de Kooning and Clyfford Still are present, those two are made to share space with artists whose contributions are still being properly accounted for. The standouts here are a prismatic painting by Ojibwe artist George Morrison and a piquant hanging orb, formed from knotted steel wire, by Claire Falkenstein.
This being the nation’s capital, there is also an entire space devoted to the Washington Color School. Come for Morris Louis’s 20-foot-long Beta Upsilon (1960), on view for the first time in 30 years, now minus the pencil marks left on its vast white center by a troublemaking visitor a long time ago. Stay for Mary Pinchot Meyer’s Half Light (1964), a painting that features a circle divided into colored quadrants, one of which has two mysterious dots near one edge.
From there, the sense of chronology begins to blur. The Baca piece appears in a gallery that loosely takes stock of feminist art of the 1970s; a clear picture of the movement’s aims fails to emerge because the various artists’ goals appear so disparate. It’s followed by an even vaguer gallery whose stated focus is “Multiculturalism and Art” during the ’70s and ’80s. Beyond the fact that all five artists included are not white, the gallery doesn’t have much of a binding thesis.
This partial view of recent art history leads to gaps, which is both a good thing and a bad thing. It’s a good thing because it offers due recognition for art-historical nonpareils. Audrey Flack is represented by Queen (1976), a Photorealist painting showing a view of a sliced orange, a rose, photographs, a playing card, and trinkets blown up to a towering size. It’s both gaudy and glorious. Hats off to the curators for letting it shine.
Then there are two totem-like sculptures by the late Truman Lowe, a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation, that are allowed to command a tall space of their own. They feature sticks of peeled willow that zigzag through boxy lumber structures, and they refuse to enjoin themselves to any artistic trend. Later on, there are three deliciously odd paintings by Howard Finster, of Talking Heads album cover fame. One shows Jesus descended to a mountain range strewn with people and cars who scale the peaks. Try cramming that into the confines of an accepted art movement.
That’s just three lesser-knowns who make an impact—there are many others on hand, from Ching Ho Cheng to Ken Ohara. And yet, herein lies this hang’s big problem: its gaping omissions in between them all, which are likely to be visible not just to the literati of the art world but to the general public, too.
Despite the focus of these new galleries being the 1940s to now, Pop, Minimalism, Conceptualism, and their resultant offshoots are skipped over entirely as the curators rush through the postwar era in order to get closer to the present. The Paik installation aside, there is almost no video art in this hang (although there is a newly formed space for moving-image work where a Carrie Mae Weems installation can be found), and no digital art or performance documentation at all, which is a shame, given that the museum owns important works by the likes of Cory Arcangel and Ana Mendieta, respectively. The AIDS crisis of the 1980s and ’90s and its devastating impact on the art world isn’t mentioned a single time in the wall text for these new galleries, and queer art more broadly is a blind spot.
Protest art periodically makes the cut, but any invocation of racism, misogyny, colonialism, and the like is typically abstracted or aestheticized. That all makes a work like Frank Romero’s Death of Rubén Salazar (1986) stand out. The painting depicts the 1970 killing of a Los Angeles Times reporter in a café during an unrelated incident amid a Chicano-led protest against the high number of Latino deaths in the Vietnam War. With its vibrant explosions of tear gas (Salazar was killed when a tear gas canister shot by the LA Sheriff Department struck his head) and its intense brushwork, it is as direct as can be—a history painting for our times. So, too, in a much different way, is Consuelo Jimenez Underwood’s Run, Jane, Run! (2004), a piece that ports over the “Immigrant Crossing” sign, first installed near the US-Mexico border in Southern California in the 1990s, and remakes it as a yellow tapestry that is threaded with barbed wire.
In general, this presentation could use more art like Romero and Jimenez Underwood’s. Yet the curators at least cop to the fact they’re seeking to hold handsome craftmanship and ugly historical events in tension, and the methods on display are productive in that regard.
By way of example, there’s Firelei Báez 2022 painting Untitled (Première Carte Pour L’Introduction A L’Histoire De Monde), which features a spray of red-orange paint blooming across a page from an 18th-century atlas documenting Europe’s colonies. One could say Báez’s blast of color recalls the bloodshed of manifest destiny, but that seems like an unfair interpretation for a work that provides so much visual pleasure. Rather than re-presenting the violence of a bygone era, Báez beautifies it. The result allows history to begin anew—on Báez’s own terms."
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Yosemite is full of wild processes. The erosion of the granite both on the high domes and cliffs above the trail and on the banks of the rivers at your feet tell the ancient story of this wild place.
2017 Armed Forces Golf Championship hosted at NSA Millington, Tenn. from 11-14 September. Golfers from around the Services are competing for gold as well as the chance to represent the U.S. Armed Forces at the Conseil International du Sport Militaire (CISM) World Military Golf Championship 12-17 November in China Bay, Sri Lanka.
The Canadian Forces Snowbirds demonstration team, flying CT-114 Tutors - www.rcaf-arc.forces.gc.ca/en/snowbirds
Salute to Veterans Airshow 2014 in Columbia, MO - www.salute.org/
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Remembrance Sunday, 10 November 2024
In the United Kingdom, Remembrance Sunday is held on the second Sunday in November, which is the Sunday nearest to 11 November, Armistice Day, the anniversary of the end of hostilities in the First World War at 11 a.m. on 11 November 1918. Remembrance Sunday is held to commemorate the contribution of British and Commonwealth military and civilian servicemen and women in the two World Wars and later conflicts.
Remembrance Sunday is marked by ceremonies at local war memorials in most cities, towns and villages, attended by civic dignitaries, ex-servicemen and -women, members of local armed forces regular and reserve units, military cadet forces and uniformed youth organisations. Two minutes’ silence is observed at 11 a.m. and wreaths of remembrance poppies are then laid on the memorials.
The United Kingdom national ceremony is held in London at the Cenotaph in Whitehall. Wreaths are laid by King Charles III, principal members of the Royal Family, the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Edinburgh and the Princess Royal, the Prime Minister, leaders of the other major political parties, the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, the Home Secretary, Commonwealth High Commissioners and representatives from the Royal Navy, Army and Royal Air Force, the Merchant Navy and Fishing Fleets and the civilian services, and veterans’ groups. In 2024 wreaths were laid by military officers on behalf of Queen Camilla, who did not attend due to illness but normally watches from a balcony, and the Duke of Kent, who viewed the ceremony from a balcony. Two minutes' silence is held at 11 a.m., before the laying of the wreaths. This silence is marked by the firing of a field gun on Horse Guards Parade to begin and end the silence, followed by Royal Marines buglers sounding Last Post.
Other members of the Royal Family watch from the balcony of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. In 2024 the Princess of Wales, the Duchess of Edinburgh, the Duke of Gloucester, the Duchess of Gloucester, the Duke of Kent and Vice Admiral Timothy Laurence watched from the balconies.
After the ceremony, a parade of veterans and other related groups, organised by the Royal British Legion, marches past the Cenotaph, each section of which lays a wreath as it passes. Only ticketed participants can take part in the march past.
From 1919 until the Second World War remembrance observance was always marked on 11 November itself. It was then moved to Remembrance Sunday, but since the 50th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in 1995, it has become usual to hold ceremonies on both Armistice Day and Remembrance Sunday.
Each year, the music at the National Ceremony of Remembrance remains the same, following a programme finalised in 1930:
Rule, Britannia! by Thomas Arne
Heart of Oak by William Boyce
The Minstrel Boy by Thomas Moore
Men of Harlech
The Skye Boat Song
Isle of Beauty by Thomas Haynes Bayly
David of the White Rock
Oft in the Stilly Night by John Stevenson
Flowers of the Forest
Nimrod from the Enigma Variations by Edward Elgar
Dido's lament by Henry Purcell
O Valiant Hearts by Charles Harris
Solemn Melody by Walford Davies
Last Post – a bugle call
Beethoven's Funeral March No. 1, by Johann Heinrich Walch
O God, Our Help in Ages Past – words by Isaac Watts, music by William Croft
Reveille – a bugle call
God Save The King
Other pieces of music are then played during the march past and wreath laying by veterans, starting with Trumpet Voluntary and followed by It's A Long Way To Tipperary, the marching song of the Connaught Rangers, a famous British Army Irish Regiment of long ago.
Following the end of the official service at the Cenotaph, a mammoth column more than 10,000-strong (some 9,000 of whom were veterans) began marching along Whitehall, saluting the Cenotaph as they passed, Parliament Street, Great George Street, Horse Guards Road and back to Horse Guard Parade. The Prince of Wales took the salute from the column on Horse Guards Parade.
In 2024 the column of veterans was led by the Royal Marines Association marking the 360th anniversary of their formation in 1664.
Organisations in the column of veterans are as follows:
Column A Royal Marines and Royal Navy
A1 Royal Marines Association
A2 Royal Naval Association
A3 Royal Fleet Auxiliary Association
A4 Merchant Navy Association National
A5 Fleet Air Arm Association
A6 Aircrewman’s Association
A7 Fleet Air Arm Royal Navy Photographers Association
A8 Royal Navy Medical Branch Ratings and Sick Berth Staff Association
A9 Association of Royal Yachtsmen
A10 HMS Tiger Association
A11 HMS Jupiter Association
A12 Submariners Association
A13 Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service Association
A14 Association of Wrens
A15 Fisgard Association (Artificer Training Establishment Torpoint)
A16 HMS Ganges Association
A17 Royal Naval Communications Association
A18 Royal Navy Physical Training Branch Association
A19 Mine Warfare Association
A20 Royal Navy Clearance Divers Association
A21 Aircraft Handlers Association Royal Navy
A22 AnyFace Association
A23 Fleet Air Arm Armourers Association
A24 Fleet Air Arm Buccaneer Association
A25 Sea Harrier Association
A26 Royal Navy Cloud Observers
A27 Fleet Air Arm Field Gun Association
A28 Fleet Air Arm Junglie Association
A29 Fleet Air Arm Officers Association
A30 Royal Navy Safety Equipment Survival Association
A31 Royal Navy Seaman Specialist Association
A32 Royal Navy Writers Association
A33 TON Class Association
A34 County Class Destroyer Association
A35 Type 21 Association
A36 Type 42 Association
A37 HMS Glasgow Association
A38 HMS Exeter Association
A39 Type 22 Association
A40 HMS Broadsword Association
A41 GLARAC Association (HMS Glorious, Ardent and Ancasta)
A42 HMS Bulwark, Albion & Centaur Association
A43 HMS Hermes Association
A44 HMS Ark Royal Association
A45 HMS Illustrious Association
A46 HMS Blake Association
A47 Fighting G Club, HMS Gloucester Survivor's Association
A48 HMS Ajax and River Plate Veterans' Association
A49 HMS Lowestoft Association
A50 HMS Plymouth
A51 HMS Andromeda Association
A52 HMS Argonaut Association
A53 HMS Ariadne Association
A54 HMS Scylla Association
A55 HMS Penelope Association
A56 Royal Naval Benevolent Trust
A57 Royal Navy Ex-Service Individuals
Column AA Special Veterans' Organisations
AA1 Blind Veterans
AA2 Combat Stress
AA3 BLESMA
AA4 Care for Veterans
AA5 Royal Hospital Chelsea
AA6 Royal Star and Garter
Column B Army, Infantry
B1 Fusilers Association
B2 Royal Northumberland Fusiliers
B3 Royal Anglian Regiment
B4 Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
B5 Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment
B6 London Scottish Regimental Association
B7 Parachute Regimental Association
B8 Guards Parachute Association
B9 Grenadier Guards Association
B10 Coldstream Guards Association
B11 Scots Guards Association
B12 Irish Guards Association, Republic of Ireland Branch
B13 Welsh Guards Association
B14 Royal Regiment of Scotland
B15 Royal Scots Regimental Association
B16 Black Watch Association, London Branch
B17 Fraserburgh, Macduff & North East Gordon Highlanders Association
B18 Gordon Highlanders London Association
B19 King's Own Scottish Borderers' Association
B20 Queen's Own Highlanders' Association
B21 1st Battalion King's Own Royal Border Regiment
B22 East Surrey Reunion Association
B23 The Queen's Regiment
B24 Royal Hampshire Regimental Association
B25 The Royal Yorkshire Regimental Association
B26 Prince of Wales' Own (West and East Yorkshire) Regimental Association.
B27 Green Howards
B28 Cheshire Regiment Association
B29 Worcestershire & Sherwood Foresters Regimental Association
B30 Staffordshire Regiment
B31 Royal Welsh Comrades Association
B32 Combined Irish Regiments Association
B33 Regimental Association of the Royal Irish Regiment in Northern Ireland
B34 Ulster Defence Regiment Association
B35 Rifles Office
B36 Rifles Regimental Association
B37 Rifles and Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment Regimental Association
B38 Devon and Dorset Regiment Association
B39 1 LI Association
B40 Durham Light Infantry Association
B41 Royal Green Jackets
B42 Rifles, Light Infantry and King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Association
B43 Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) & Family Association
B44 The London Regiment Association
Column C Army, Cavalry, Armoured and Support Corps
C1 The Life Guards Association
C2 The Blues and Royals Association
C3 Royal Pioneers Corps Association
C4 Beachley Old Boys Association
C5 Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps Association
C6 The Royal Corps of Army Music
C7 Northern Ireland Veterans' Association
C8 3rd Regiment Royal Horse Artillery Past and Present Members Association
C9 Regimental Home Headquarters 1st Queen's Dragoon Guards
C10 Royal Scots Dragoon Guards
C11 Home Headquarters Royal Dragoon Guards
C12 Queen's Royal Hussars Regimental Association
C13 Royal Lancers (Queen Elizabeth's Own)
C14 The Queen's Royal Lancers Old Comrades Association
C15 16th/5th Queen's Royal Lancers OCA
C16 17th/21st Lancers (Death or Glory Boys) Veterans
C17 King's Royal Hussars Regimental Association
C18 Light Dragoons Regimental Association
C19 Reconnaissance Corps Association
C20 Parachute Squadron Royal Armoured Corps
C21 Royal Artillery Association
C22 Special Observers' Association
C23 Royal Engineers Association
C24 36 Engineer Regiment Veterans
C25 Royal Engineers Bomb Disposal Association
C26 Airborne Engineers Association
C27 Royal Signals Association
C28 Army Air Corps
C29 7 Regiment AAC(V) Association
C30 Glider Pilot Regiment Society
C31 656 Squadron Army Air Corps Association
C32 Royal Logistics Corps Association
C33 Royal Army Ordnance Corps Association
C34 Royal Army Service Corps & Royal Corps of Transport Association
C35 Army Catering Corps Association
C36 Association of Ammunition Technicians
C37 Royal Army Medical Corps Association
C38 Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers Association
C39 Arborfield Old Boys Association
C40 Adjutant General's Corps Association
C41 Military Provost Staff Association
C42 Royal Army Educational Corps
C43 Royal Military Police Association
C44 Royal Army Pay Corps Regimental Association
C45 Royal Army Veterinary Corps Association
C46 Army Dog Unit Northern Ireland (Royal Army Veterinary Corps) Association
C47 Royal Army Dental Corps Association
C48 Intelligence Corps Association
C49 Royal Army Physical Training Corps
C50 Women's Royal Army Corps Association
C51 The Royal Yeomanry
C52 Allied Command Europe Mobile Force
C53 Gurkha Brigade Association
C54 Media Operations Group
C55 British Gurkha Welfare Society
C56 British Fijian Veterans and Families
C57 The Junior Tradesmen's Regiment
C58 Hong Kong Military Service Corps Veterans
C59 Army Ex-Service Individuals
Column D Royal Air Force
D1 Royal Air Forces Association
D2 6 Squadron (Royal Air Force) Association
D3 No 7 Squadron Association
D4 9 Squadron Association RAF
D5 18 (B) Squadron Association
D6 202 Squadron Association
D7 84 Squadron Association
D8 RAF Yatesbury Association
D9 33 Squadron Association RAF
D10 Harrier Force Association
D11 Air Loadmaster Association
D12 8 Squadron Association RAF
D13 31 Squadron Association
D14 100 Squadron Association
D15 617 Squadron Association
D16 237 OCU Association
D17 is 216 Squadron (RAF) Association
D18 II(AC) Squadron Royal Air Force
D19 WAAF WRAF RAF(W) Association
D20 Women's Royal Air Force Branch of the Royal Air Forces Association
D21 Royal Air Force Police Association
D22 RAFA Caduceus Branch 1373
D23 Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Association
D24 RAF Survival Equipment Association
D25 RAF Music Services Association
D26 RAF and Defence Services Fire Association
D27 RAF Catering Association
D28 Royal Air Forces Association Armourers Association
D29 RAF Trade Group 11 Association
D30 RAF Trade Group 6
D31 Federation of RAF Apprentices and Boy Entrants Association
D32 RAF Engineering and Airfield Construction Branch Association
D33 Flight Engineers and Air Engineers Association
D34 RAF Locking TG3 Association
D35 RAF C-130 Aircraft Ground Engineers Association
D36 RAF Regiment Association
D37 RAF Ex-Prisoners of War Association
D38 1370 Global Branch RAFA
D39 Royal Observer Corps Association
D40 Canopy Club Association
D41 RAF Mountain Rescue Association
D42 Air Sea Rescue & Marine Craft Section Club (RAF)
D43 Coastal Command and Maritime Air Association
D44 RAF Servicing Command and Tactical Supply Wing Association
D45 RAF Movements Association
D46 RAF Linguists' Association
D47 RAF Masirah/RAF Salalah Veterans Association
D48 RAF Physical Education Association
D49 RAF Ex-Service Individuals
Column E Other Veterans Organisations
E1 Spirit of Normandy Trust
E2 Monte Cassino Society
E3 Italy Association 1939 - 1945
E4 Burma Star Memorial Fund
E5 Chindit Society
E6 Commando Society
E7 UK Afghanistan Veterans Community
E8 MERT Club
E9 CASEVAC Club
E10 Royal British Legion
E11 Royal British Legion Scotland
E12 Corps of Commissionaires
E13 Union Jack Club
E14 National Malaya & Borneo Veterans Association
E15 Malayan Volunteers Group
E16 Aden Veterans' Association
E17 South Atlantic Medal Association
E18 National Gulf Veterans and Families Association
E19 British Nuclear Test Veterans Association
E20 Legacy of the Atomic Bomb Recognition for Atomic Test Survivors
E21 British West India Regiments Heritage Trust
E22 Gallantry Medallists' League
E23 King's Volunteer Medal Reserves Association
E24 National Association of Retired Police Officers
E25 Metropolitan Police Armed Forces Veterans Association
E26 International Police Association
E27 The Coastguard Association
E28 Naval Canteen Service and Expeditionary Force Institutes Association
E29 Stoll
E30 Not Forgotten Association
E31 Forces Employment Charity
E32 Armed Forces Veterans Breakfast Club
E33 Devon and Cornwall Armed Forced Veterans Clubs
E34 Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust Veterans Wellbeing Support Group
E35 Care After Combat
E36 HMP Risley Veterans
E37 HM Body of Yeoman Warders of the Tower of London
E38 King's Body Guard of the Yeomen of the Guard
E39 Trucial Oman Scouts Association
E40 15 Psychological Operations Group Black & White Association
E41 South African Legion - UK & Europe
E42 AJEX The Jewish Military Association
E43 Fellowship of the Services 2015
E44 Veterans - War Veterans of the Czech Republic
E45 Hong Kong Ex-Servicemen's Association (UK Branch)
E46 Bond van Wapenbroeders
E47 Memorable Order of Tinhats
E48 Circuit of Service Lodges
E49 Sight Scotland Veterans (formerly Scottish War Blinded)
Column F Widows and Childrens' Organisations
F1 War Widows' Association
F2 Royal Navy and Royal Marines Widows' Association
F3 Army Widows' Association
F4 RAF Widows's Association
F5 Scotty's Little Soldiers
F6 Civilians Killed by Enemy Action Memorial
F7 Children and Families of Far East Prisoners of War
Column R Civilian Organisations
R1 Transport for London
R2 Commonwealth War Graves Commission
R3 First Aid Nursing Yeomanry
R4 Royal National Lifeboat Institution
R5 Gallipoli Association
R6 Gallipoli & Dardanelles International
R7 Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
R8 Blue Cross
R9 PDSA
R10 Civil Defence Association
R11 St Nazaire Society
R12 British Evacuees Association
R13 Women's Royal Voluntary Services / Royal Voluntary Services
R14 The Royal NAAFI
R15 Toc H
R16 Royal Ulster Constabulary GC Association
R17 Metropolitan Special Constabulary
R18 Norfolk Constabulary Ceremonial Association
R19 Post Office Fellowship of Remembrance CIC
R20 St John Ambulance
R21 British Red Cross
R22 St Andrew's First Aid
R23 Munitions Workers Association
R24 Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes
R25 Royal Antediluvian order of Buffaloes Grand Lodge of England Limited
R26 Salvation Army
R27 British Resistance - Coleshill Auxiliary Research Team
R28 National Association of Round Tables of Great Britain and Ireland
R29 National Association of Tangent Clubs
R30 Fighting with Pride
R31 SSAFA, The Armed Forces Charity
R32 Help for Heroes
R33 Polish Contingent
R34 Canadian Veterans
R35 Royal Canadian Legion
R36 Foreign Legion Association of Great Britain
R37 ENSA Memorial
R38 MOD Civilian Support to Operations
R39 Showmen's Guild of Great Britain
R40 Association of Ex-Round Tablers' Clubs
R41 The National Association of Ladies Circles GB&I
Column Y Youth Organisations
Y1 Sea Cadets
Y2 Army Cadets
Y3 RAF Air Cadets
Y4 Combined Cadet Forces
Y5 Volunteer Police Cadets
Y6 Fire Cadets
Y7 St John Ambulance
Y8 The Scout Association
Y9 Girlguiding
Y10 Boys Brigade
Y11 Girls' Brigades Ministries
Y12 Church Lads' and Church Girls' Brigade
Y13 Jewish Lads' and Girls' Brigade
Y14 YMCA
Estonian Defence Force Soldiers serving with Estcoy-19 take part in live-fire tactical training while serving in Iraq as part of Operation Inherent Resolve
Photos: @kaitsevagi.edf
Armed Forces Police badges and patches.
Presented to:
Lt. Col. WRC Little CD by past and present members of The Fort Garry Horse, Regement Police Staff in recognition of his Traffic Control Duties 'In The Field', Germany.
1962 - 1964.
Estonian Defence Force Soldiers serving with Estcoy-19 take part in live-fire tactical training while serving in Iraq as part of Operation Inherent Resolve
Photos: @kaitsevagi.edf
Remembrance Sunday, 10 November 2024
In the United Kingdom, Remembrance Sunday is held on the second Sunday in November, which is the Sunday nearest to 11 November, Armistice Day, the anniversary of the end of hostilities in the First World War at 11 a.m. on 11 November 1918. Remembrance Sunday is held to commemorate the contribution of British and Commonwealth military and civilian servicemen and women in the two World Wars and later conflicts.
Remembrance Sunday is marked by ceremonies at local war memorials in most cities, towns and villages, attended by civic dignitaries, ex-servicemen and -women, members of local armed forces regular and reserve units, military cadet forces and uniformed youth organisations. Two minutes’ silence is observed at 11 a.m. and wreaths of remembrance poppies are then laid on the memorials.
The United Kingdom national ceremony is held in London at the Cenotaph in Whitehall. Wreaths are laid by King Charles III, principal members of the Royal Family, the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Edinburgh and the Princess Royal, the Prime Minister, leaders of the other major political parties, the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, the Home Secretary, Commonwealth High Commissioners and representatives from the Royal Navy, Army and Royal Air Force, the Merchant Navy and Fishing Fleets and the civilian services, and veterans’ groups. In 2024 wreaths were laid by military officers on behalf of Queen Camilla, who did not attend due to illness but normally watches from a balcony, and the Duke of Kent, who viewed the ceremony from a balcony. Two minutes' silence is held at 11 a.m., before the laying of the wreaths. This silence is marked by the firing of a field gun on Horse Guards Parade to begin and end the silence, followed by Royal Marines buglers sounding Last Post.
Other members of the Royal Family watch from the balcony of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. In 2024 the Princess of Wales, the Duchess of Edinburgh, the Duke of Gloucester, the Duchess of Gloucester, the Duke of Kent and Vice Admiral Timothy Laurence watched from the balconies.
After the ceremony, a parade of veterans and other related groups, organised by the Royal British Legion, marches past the Cenotaph, each section of which lays a wreath as it passes. Only ticketed participants can take part in the march past.
From 1919 until the Second World War remembrance observance was always marked on 11 November itself. It was then moved to Remembrance Sunday, but since the 50th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in 1995, it has become usual to hold ceremonies on both Armistice Day and Remembrance Sunday.
Each year, the music at the National Ceremony of Remembrance remains the same, following a programme finalised in 1930:
Rule, Britannia! by Thomas Arne
Heart of Oak by William Boyce
The Minstrel Boy by Thomas Moore
Men of Harlech
The Skye Boat Song
Isle of Beauty by Thomas Haynes Bayly
David of the White Rock
Oft in the Stilly Night by John Stevenson
Flowers of the Forest
Nimrod from the Enigma Variations by Edward Elgar
Dido's lament by Henry Purcell
O Valiant Hearts by Charles Harris
Solemn Melody by Walford Davies
Last Post – a bugle call
Beethoven's Funeral March No. 1, by Johann Heinrich Walch
O God, Our Help in Ages Past – words by Isaac Watts, music by William Croft
Reveille – a bugle call
God Save The King
Other pieces of music are then played during the march past and wreath laying by veterans, starting with Trumpet Voluntary and followed by It's A Long Way To Tipperary, the marching song of the Connaught Rangers, a famous British Army Irish Regiment of long ago.
Following the end of the official service at the Cenotaph, a mammoth column more than 10,000-strong (some 9,000 of whom were veterans) began marching along Whitehall, saluting the Cenotaph as they passed, Parliament Street, Great George Street, Horse Guards Road and back to Horse Guard Parade. The Prince of Wales took the salute from the column on Horse Guards Parade.
In 2024 the column of veterans was led by the Royal Marines Association marking the 360th anniversary of their formation in 1664.
Organisations in the column of veterans are as follows:
Column A Royal Marines and Royal Navy
A1 Royal Marines Association
A2 Royal Naval Association
A3 Royal Fleet Auxiliary Association
A4 Merchant Navy Association National
A5 Fleet Air Arm Association
A6 Aircrewman’s Association
A7 Fleet Air Arm Royal Navy Photographers Association
A8 Royal Navy Medical Branch Ratings and Sick Berth Staff Association
A9 Association of Royal Yachtsmen
A10 HMS Tiger Association
A11 HMS Jupiter Association
A12 Submariners Association
A13 Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service Association
A14 Association of Wrens
A15 Fisgard Association (Artificer Training Establishment Torpoint)
A16 HMS Ganges Association
A17 Royal Naval Communications Association
A18 Royal Navy Physical Training Branch Association
A19 Mine Warfare Association
A20 Royal Navy Clearance Divers Association
A21 Aircraft Handlers Association Royal Navy
A22 AnyFace Association
A23 Fleet Air Arm Armourers Association
A24 Fleet Air Arm Buccaneer Association
A25 Sea Harrier Association
A26 Royal Navy Cloud Observers
A27 Fleet Air Arm Field Gun Association
A28 Fleet Air Arm Junglie Association
A29 Fleet Air Arm Officers Association
A30 Royal Navy Safety Equipment Survival Association
A31 Royal Navy Seaman Specialist Association
A32 Royal Navy Writers Association
A33 TON Class Association
A34 County Class Destroyer Association
A35 Type 21 Association
A36 Type 42 Association
A37 HMS Glasgow Association
A38 HMS Exeter Association
A39 Type 22 Association
A40 HMS Broadsword Association
A41 GLARAC Association (HMS Glorious, Ardent and Ancasta)
A42 HMS Bulwark, Albion & Centaur Association
A43 HMS Hermes Association
A44 HMS Ark Royal Association
A45 HMS Illustrious Association
A46 HMS Blake Association
A47 Fighting G Club, HMS Gloucester Survivor's Association
A48 HMS Ajax and River Plate Veterans' Association
A49 HMS Lowestoft Association
A50 HMS Plymouth
A51 HMS Andromeda Association
A52 HMS Argonaut Association
A53 HMS Ariadne Association
A54 HMS Scylla Association
A55 HMS Penelope Association
A56 Royal Naval Benevolent Trust
A57 Royal Navy Ex-Service Individuals
Column AA Special Veterans' Organisations
AA1 Blind Veterans
AA2 Combat Stress
AA3 BLESMA
AA4 Care for Veterans
AA5 Royal Hospital Chelsea
AA6 Royal Star and Garter
Column B Army, Infantry
B1 Fusilers Association
B2 Royal Northumberland Fusiliers
B3 Royal Anglian Regiment
B4 Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
B5 Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment
B6 London Scottish Regimental Association
B7 Parachute Regimental Association
B8 Guards Parachute Association
B9 Grenadier Guards Association
B10 Coldstream Guards Association
B11 Scots Guards Association
B12 Irish Guards Association, Republic of Ireland Branch
B13 Welsh Guards Association
B14 Royal Regiment of Scotland
B15 Royal Scots Regimental Association
B16 Black Watch Association, London Branch
B17 Fraserburgh, Macduff & North East Gordon Highlanders Association
B18 Gordon Highlanders London Association
B19 King's Own Scottish Borderers' Association
B20 Queen's Own Highlanders' Association
B21 1st Battalion King's Own Royal Border Regiment
B22 East Surrey Reunion Association
B23 The Queen's Regiment
B24 Royal Hampshire Regimental Association
B25 The Royal Yorkshire Regimental Association
B26 Prince of Wales' Own (West and East Yorkshire) Regimental Association.
B27 Green Howards
B28 Cheshire Regiment Association
B29 Worcestershire & Sherwood Foresters Regimental Association
B30 Staffordshire Regiment
B31 Royal Welsh Comrades Association
B32 Combined Irish Regiments Association
B33 Regimental Association of the Royal Irish Regiment in Northern Ireland
B34 Ulster Defence Regiment Association
B35 Rifles Office
B36 Rifles Regimental Association
B37 Rifles and Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment Regimental Association
B38 Devon and Dorset Regiment Association
B39 1 LI Association
B40 Durham Light Infantry Association
B41 Royal Green Jackets
B42 Rifles, Light Infantry and King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Association
B43 Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) & Family Association
B44 The London Regiment Association
Column C Army, Cavalry, Armoured and Support Corps
C1 The Life Guards Association
C2 The Blues and Royals Association
C3 Royal Pioneers Corps Association
C4 Beachley Old Boys Association
C5 Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps Association
C6 The Royal Corps of Army Music
C7 Northern Ireland Veterans' Association
C8 3rd Regiment Royal Horse Artillery Past and Present Members Association
C9 Regimental Home Headquarters 1st Queen's Dragoon Guards
C10 Royal Scots Dragoon Guards
C11 Home Headquarters Royal Dragoon Guards
C12 Queen's Royal Hussars Regimental Association
C13 Royal Lancers (Queen Elizabeth's Own)
C14 The Queen's Royal Lancers Old Comrades Association
C15 16th/5th Queen's Royal Lancers OCA
C16 17th/21st Lancers (Death or Glory Boys) Veterans
C17 King's Royal Hussars Regimental Association
C18 Light Dragoons Regimental Association
C19 Reconnaissance Corps Association
C20 Parachute Squadron Royal Armoured Corps
C21 Royal Artillery Association
C22 Special Observers' Association
C23 Royal Engineers Association
C24 36 Engineer Regiment Veterans
C25 Royal Engineers Bomb Disposal Association
C26 Airborne Engineers Association
C27 Royal Signals Association
C28 Army Air Corps
C29 7 Regiment AAC(V) Association
C30 Glider Pilot Regiment Society
C31 656 Squadron Army Air Corps Association
C32 Royal Logistics Corps Association
C33 Royal Army Ordnance Corps Association
C34 Royal Army Service Corps & Royal Corps of Transport Association
C35 Army Catering Corps Association
C36 Association of Ammunition Technicians
C37 Royal Army Medical Corps Association
C38 Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers Association
C39 Arborfield Old Boys Association
C40 Adjutant General's Corps Association
C41 Military Provost Staff Association
C42 Royal Army Educational Corps
C43 Royal Military Police Association
C44 Royal Army Pay Corps Regimental Association
C45 Royal Army Veterinary Corps Association
C46 Army Dog Unit Northern Ireland (Royal Army Veterinary Corps) Association
C47 Royal Army Dental Corps Association
C48 Intelligence Corps Association
C49 Royal Army Physical Training Corps
C50 Women's Royal Army Corps Association
C51 The Royal Yeomanry
C52 Allied Command Europe Mobile Force
C53 Gurkha Brigade Association
C54 Media Operations Group
C55 British Gurkha Welfare Society
C56 British Fijian Veterans and Families
C57 The Junior Tradesmen's Regiment
C58 Hong Kong Military Service Corps Veterans
C59 Army Ex-Service Individuals
Column D Royal Air Force
D1 Royal Air Forces Association
D2 6 Squadron (Royal Air Force) Association
D3 No 7 Squadron Association
D4 9 Squadron Association RAF
D5 18 (B) Squadron Association
D6 202 Squadron Association
D7 84 Squadron Association
D8 RAF Yatesbury Association
D9 33 Squadron Association RAF
D10 Harrier Force Association
D11 Air Loadmaster Association
D12 8 Squadron Association RAF
D13 31 Squadron Association
D14 100 Squadron Association
D15 617 Squadron Association
D16 237 OCU Association
D17 is 216 Squadron (RAF) Association
D18 II(AC) Squadron Royal Air Force
D19 WAAF WRAF RAF(W) Association
D20 Women's Royal Air Force Branch of the Royal Air Forces Association
D21 Royal Air Force Police Association
D22 RAFA Caduceus Branch 1373
D23 Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Association
D24 RAF Survival Equipment Association
D25 RAF Music Services Association
D26 RAF and Defence Services Fire Association
D27 RAF Catering Association
D28 Royal Air Forces Association Armourers Association
D29 RAF Trade Group 11 Association
D30 RAF Trade Group 6
D31 Federation of RAF Apprentices and Boy Entrants Association
D32 RAF Engineering and Airfield Construction Branch Association
D33 Flight Engineers and Air Engineers Association
D34 RAF Locking TG3 Association
D35 RAF C-130 Aircraft Ground Engineers Association
D36 RAF Regiment Association
D37 RAF Ex-Prisoners of War Association
D38 1370 Global Branch RAFA
D39 Royal Observer Corps Association
D40 Canopy Club Association
D41 RAF Mountain Rescue Association
D42 Air Sea Rescue & Marine Craft Section Club (RAF)
D43 Coastal Command and Maritime Air Association
D44 RAF Servicing Command and Tactical Supply Wing Association
D45 RAF Movements Association
D46 RAF Linguists' Association
D47 RAF Masirah/RAF Salalah Veterans Association
D48 RAF Physical Education Association
D49 RAF Ex-Service Individuals
Column E Other Veterans Organisations
E1 Spirit of Normandy Trust
E2 Monte Cassino Society
E3 Italy Association 1939 - 1945
E4 Burma Star Memorial Fund
E5 Chindit Society
E6 Commando Society
E7 UK Afghanistan Veterans Community
E8 MERT Club
E9 CASEVAC Club
E10 Royal British Legion
E11 Royal British Legion Scotland
E12 Corps of Commissionaires
E13 Union Jack Club
E14 National Malaya & Borneo Veterans Association
E15 Malayan Volunteers Group
E16 Aden Veterans' Association
E17 South Atlantic Medal Association
E18 National Gulf Veterans and Families Association
E19 British Nuclear Test Veterans Association
E20 Legacy of the Atomic Bomb Recognition for Atomic Test Survivors
E21 British West India Regiments Heritage Trust
E22 Gallantry Medallists' League
E23 King's Volunteer Medal Reserves Association
E24 National Association of Retired Police Officers
E25 Metropolitan Police Armed Forces Veterans Association
E26 International Police Association
E27 The Coastguard Association
E28 Naval Canteen Service and Expeditionary Force Institutes Association
E29 Stoll
E30 Not Forgotten Association
E31 Forces Employment Charity
E32 Armed Forces Veterans Breakfast Club
E33 Devon and Cornwall Armed Forced Veterans Clubs
E34 Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust Veterans Wellbeing Support Group
E35 Care After Combat
E36 HMP Risley Veterans
E37 HM Body of Yeoman Warders of the Tower of London
E38 King's Body Guard of the Yeomen of the Guard
E39 Trucial Oman Scouts Association
E40 15 Psychological Operations Group Black & White Association
E41 South African Legion - UK & Europe
E42 AJEX The Jewish Military Association
E43 Fellowship of the Services 2015
E44 Veterans - War Veterans of the Czech Republic
E45 Hong Kong Ex-Servicemen's Association (UK Branch)
E46 Bond van Wapenbroeders
E47 Memorable Order of Tinhats
E48 Circuit of Service Lodges
E49 Sight Scotland Veterans (formerly Scottish War Blinded)
Column F Widows and Childrens' Organisations
F1 War Widows' Association
F2 Royal Navy and Royal Marines Widows' Association
F3 Army Widows' Association
F4 RAF Widows's Association
F5 Scotty's Little Soldiers
F6 Civilians Killed by Enemy Action Memorial
F7 Children and Families of Far East Prisoners of War
Column R Civilian Organisations
R1 Transport for London
R2 Commonwealth War Graves Commission
R3 First Aid Nursing Yeomanry
R4 Royal National Lifeboat Institution
R5 Gallipoli Association
R6 Gallipoli & Dardanelles International
R7 Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
R8 Blue Cross
R9 PDSA
R10 Civil Defence Association
R11 St Nazaire Society
R12 British Evacuees Association
R13 Women's Royal Voluntary Services / Royal Voluntary Services
R14 The Royal NAAFI
R15 Toc H
R16 Royal Ulster Constabulary GC Association
R17 Metropolitan Special Constabulary
R18 Norfolk Constabulary Ceremonial Association
R19 Post Office Fellowship of Remembrance CIC
R20 St John Ambulance
R21 British Red Cross
R22 St Andrew's First Aid
R23 Munitions Workers Association
R24 Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes
R25 Royal Antediluvian order of Buffaloes Grand Lodge of England Limited
R26 Salvation Army
R27 British Resistance - Coleshill Auxiliary Research Team
R28 National Association of Round Tables of Great Britain and Ireland
R29 National Association of Tangent Clubs
R30 Fighting with Pride
R31 SSAFA, The Armed Forces Charity
R32 Help for Heroes
R33 Polish Contingent
R34 Canadian Veterans
R35 Royal Canadian Legion
R36 Foreign Legion Association of Great Britain
R37 ENSA Memorial
R38 MOD Civilian Support to Operations
R39 Showmen's Guild of Great Britain
R40 Association of Ex-Round Tablers' Clubs
R41 The National Association of Ladies Circles GB&I
Column Y Youth Organisations
Y1 Sea Cadets
Y2 Army Cadets
Y3 RAF Air Cadets
Y4 Combined Cadet Forces
Y5 Volunteer Police Cadets
Y6 Fire Cadets
Y7 St John Ambulance
Y8 The Scout Association
Y9 Girlguiding
Y10 Boys Brigade
Y11 Girls' Brigades Ministries
Y12 Church Lads' and Church Girls' Brigade
Y13 Jewish Lads' and Girls' Brigade
Y14 YMCA
HURLBURT FIELD, Fla. – Elite U.S. military volleyball players from around the world compete for dominance at Hurlburt Field’s Aderholt Fitness Center May 7-11, 2018 to determine the best of the best at the 2018 Armed Forces Volleyball Championship. Army, Navy (with Coast Guard) and Air Force teams squared off at the annual AFVC through three days of round-robin competition, to eventually crown the best men and women volleyball players in the military. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class John Benson (Released)
Armed Forces Day Concert May 17 at Gallivan Center, Utah where Utah National Guard Best Warrior victors were recognized by Assistant Adjutant General BG Dallen Atack.
Armed forces day display by the red arrows last weekend in Belfast. Took these from across the loch in Holywood so not that close. Not my normal thing to shoot but had to give it a go.
Remembrance Sunday, 10 November 2024
In the United Kingdom, Remembrance Sunday is held on the second Sunday in November, which is the Sunday nearest to 11 November, Armistice Day, the anniversary of the end of hostilities in the First World War at 11 a.m. on 11 November 1918. Remembrance Sunday is held to commemorate the contribution of British and Commonwealth military and civilian servicemen and women in the two World Wars and later conflicts.
Remembrance Sunday is marked by ceremonies at local war memorials in most cities, towns and villages, attended by civic dignitaries, ex-servicemen and -women, members of local armed forces regular and reserve units, military cadet forces and uniformed youth organisations. Two minutes’ silence is observed at 11 a.m. and wreaths of remembrance poppies are then laid on the memorials.
The United Kingdom national ceremony is held in London at the Cenotaph in Whitehall. Wreaths are laid by King Charles III, principal members of the Royal Family, the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Edinburgh and the Princess Royal, the Prime Minister, leaders of the other major political parties, the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, the Home Secretary, Commonwealth High Commissioners and representatives from the Royal Navy, Army and Royal Air Force, the Merchant Navy and Fishing Fleets and the civilian services, and veterans’ groups. In 2024 wreaths were laid by military officers on behalf of Queen Camilla, who did not attend due to illness but normally watches from a balcony, and the Duke of Kent, who viewed the ceremony from a balcony. Two minutes' silence is held at 11 a.m., before the laying of the wreaths. This silence is marked by the firing of a field gun on Horse Guards Parade to begin and end the silence, followed by Royal Marines buglers sounding Last Post.
Other members of the Royal Family watch from the balcony of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. In 2024 the Princess of Wales, the Duchess of Edinburgh, the Duke of Gloucester, the Duchess of Gloucester, the Duke of Kent and Vice Admiral Timothy Laurence watched from the balconies.
After the ceremony, a parade of veterans and other related groups, organised by the Royal British Legion, marches past the Cenotaph, each section of which lays a wreath as it passes. Only ticketed participants can take part in the march past.
From 1919 until the Second World War remembrance observance was always marked on 11 November itself. It was then moved to Remembrance Sunday, but since the 50th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in 1995, it has become usual to hold ceremonies on both Armistice Day and Remembrance Sunday.
Each year, the music at the National Ceremony of Remembrance remains the same, following a programme finalised in 1930:
Rule, Britannia! by Thomas Arne
Heart of Oak by William Boyce
The Minstrel Boy by Thomas Moore
Men of Harlech
The Skye Boat Song
Isle of Beauty by Thomas Haynes Bayly
David of the White Rock
Oft in the Stilly Night by John Stevenson
Flowers of the Forest
Nimrod from the Enigma Variations by Edward Elgar
Dido's lament by Henry Purcell
O Valiant Hearts by Charles Harris
Solemn Melody by Walford Davies
Last Post – a bugle call
Beethoven's Funeral March No. 1, by Johann Heinrich Walch
O God, Our Help in Ages Past – words by Isaac Watts, music by William Croft
Reveille – a bugle call
God Save The King
Other pieces of music are then played during the march past and wreath laying by veterans, starting with Trumpet Voluntary and followed by It's A Long Way To Tipperary, the marching song of the Connaught Rangers, a famous British Army Irish Regiment of long ago.
Following the end of the official service at the Cenotaph, a mammoth column more than 10,000-strong (some 9,000 of whom were veterans) began marching along Whitehall, saluting the Cenotaph as they passed, Parliament Street, Great George Street, Horse Guards Road and back to Horse Guard Parade. The Prince of Wales took the salute from the column on Horse Guards Parade.
In 2024 the column of veterans was led by the Royal Marines Association marking the 360th anniversary of their formation in 1664.
Organisations in the column of veterans are as follows:
Column A Royal Marines and Royal Navy
A1 Royal Marines Association
A2 Royal Naval Association
A3 Royal Fleet Auxiliary Association
A4 Merchant Navy Association National
A5 Fleet Air Arm Association
A6 Aircrewman’s Association
A7 Fleet Air Arm Royal Navy Photographers Association
A8 Royal Navy Medical Branch Ratings and Sick Berth Staff Association
A9 Association of Royal Yachtsmen
A10 HMS Tiger Association
A11 HMS Jupiter Association
A12 Submariners Association
A13 Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service Association
A14 Association of Wrens
A15 Fisgard Association (Artificer Training Establishment Torpoint)
A16 HMS Ganges Association
A17 Royal Naval Communications Association
A18 Royal Navy Physical Training Branch Association
A19 Mine Warfare Association
A20 Royal Navy Clearance Divers Association
A21 Aircraft Handlers Association Royal Navy
A22 AnyFace Association
A23 Fleet Air Arm Armourers Association
A24 Fleet Air Arm Buccaneer Association
A25 Sea Harrier Association
A26 Royal Navy Cloud Observers
A27 Fleet Air Arm Field Gun Association
A28 Fleet Air Arm Junglie Association
A29 Fleet Air Arm Officers Association
A30 Royal Navy Safety Equipment Survival Association
A31 Royal Navy Seaman Specialist Association
A32 Royal Navy Writers Association
A33 TON Class Association
A34 County Class Destroyer Association
A35 Type 21 Association
A36 Type 42 Association
A37 HMS Glasgow Association
A38 HMS Exeter Association
A39 Type 22 Association
A40 HMS Broadsword Association
A41 GLARAC Association (HMS Glorious, Ardent and Ancasta)
A42 HMS Bulwark, Albion & Centaur Association
A43 HMS Hermes Association
A44 HMS Ark Royal Association
A45 HMS Illustrious Association
A46 HMS Blake Association
A47 Fighting G Club, HMS Gloucester Survivor's Association
A48 HMS Ajax and River Plate Veterans' Association
A49 HMS Lowestoft Association
A50 HMS Plymouth
A51 HMS Andromeda Association
A52 HMS Argonaut Association
A53 HMS Ariadne Association
A54 HMS Scylla Association
A55 HMS Penelope Association
A56 Royal Naval Benevolent Trust
A57 Royal Navy Ex-Service Individuals
Column AA Special Veterans' Organisations
AA1 Blind Veterans
AA2 Combat Stress
AA3 BLESMA
AA4 Care for Veterans
AA5 Royal Hospital Chelsea
AA6 Royal Star and Garter
Column B Army, Infantry
B1 Fusilers Association
B2 Royal Northumberland Fusiliers
B3 Royal Anglian Regiment
B4 Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
B5 Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment
B6 London Scottish Regimental Association
B7 Parachute Regimental Association
B8 Guards Parachute Association
B9 Grenadier Guards Association
B10 Coldstream Guards Association
B11 Scots Guards Association
B12 Irish Guards Association, Republic of Ireland Branch
B13 Welsh Guards Association
B14 Royal Regiment of Scotland
B15 Royal Scots Regimental Association
B16 Black Watch Association, London Branch
B17 Fraserburgh, Macduff & North East Gordon Highlanders Association
B18 Gordon Highlanders London Association
B19 King's Own Scottish Borderers' Association
B20 Queen's Own Highlanders' Association
B21 1st Battalion King's Own Royal Border Regiment
B22 East Surrey Reunion Association
B23 The Queen's Regiment
B24 Royal Hampshire Regimental Association
B25 The Royal Yorkshire Regimental Association
B26 Prince of Wales' Own (West and East Yorkshire) Regimental Association.
B27 Green Howards
B28 Cheshire Regiment Association
B29 Worcestershire & Sherwood Foresters Regimental Association
B30 Staffordshire Regiment
B31 Royal Welsh Comrades Association
B32 Combined Irish Regiments Association
B33 Regimental Association of the Royal Irish Regiment in Northern Ireland
B34 Ulster Defence Regiment Association
B35 Rifles Office
B36 Rifles Regimental Association
B37 Rifles and Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment Regimental Association
B38 Devon and Dorset Regiment Association
B39 1 LI Association
B40 Durham Light Infantry Association
B41 Royal Green Jackets
B42 Rifles, Light Infantry and King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Association
B43 Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) & Family Association
B44 The London Regiment Association
Column C Army, Cavalry, Armoured and Support Corps
C1 The Life Guards Association
C2 The Blues and Royals Association
C3 Royal Pioneers Corps Association
C4 Beachley Old Boys Association
C5 Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps Association
C6 The Royal Corps of Army Music
C7 Northern Ireland Veterans' Association
C8 3rd Regiment Royal Horse Artillery Past and Present Members Association
C9 Regimental Home Headquarters 1st Queen's Dragoon Guards
C10 Royal Scots Dragoon Guards
C11 Home Headquarters Royal Dragoon Guards
C12 Queen's Royal Hussars Regimental Association
C13 Royal Lancers (Queen Elizabeth's Own)
C14 The Queen's Royal Lancers Old Comrades Association
C15 16th/5th Queen's Royal Lancers OCA
C16 17th/21st Lancers (Death or Glory Boys) Veterans
C17 King's Royal Hussars Regimental Association
C18 Light Dragoons Regimental Association
C19 Reconnaissance Corps Association
C20 Parachute Squadron Royal Armoured Corps
C21 Royal Artillery Association
C22 Special Observers' Association
C23 Royal Engineers Association
C24 36 Engineer Regiment Veterans
C25 Royal Engineers Bomb Disposal Association
C26 Airborne Engineers Association
C27 Royal Signals Association
C28 Army Air Corps
C29 7 Regiment AAC(V) Association
C30 Glider Pilot Regiment Society
C31 656 Squadron Army Air Corps Association
C32 Royal Logistics Corps Association
C33 Royal Army Ordnance Corps Association
C34 Royal Army Service Corps & Royal Corps of Transport Association
C35 Army Catering Corps Association
C36 Association of Ammunition Technicians
C37 Royal Army Medical Corps Association
C38 Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers Association
C39 Arborfield Old Boys Association
C40 Adjutant General's Corps Association
C41 Military Provost Staff Association
C42 Royal Army Educational Corps
C43 Royal Military Police Association
C44 Royal Army Pay Corps Regimental Association
C45 Royal Army Veterinary Corps Association
C46 Army Dog Unit Northern Ireland (Royal Army Veterinary Corps) Association
C47 Royal Army Dental Corps Association
C48 Intelligence Corps Association
C49 Royal Army Physical Training Corps
C50 Women's Royal Army Corps Association
C51 The Royal Yeomanry
C52 Allied Command Europe Mobile Force
C53 Gurkha Brigade Association
C54 Media Operations Group
C55 British Gurkha Welfare Society
C56 British Fijian Veterans and Families
C57 The Junior Tradesmen's Regiment
C58 Hong Kong Military Service Corps Veterans
C59 Army Ex-Service Individuals
Column D Royal Air Force
D1 Royal Air Forces Association
D2 6 Squadron (Royal Air Force) Association
D3 No 7 Squadron Association
D4 9 Squadron Association RAF
D5 18 (B) Squadron Association
D6 202 Squadron Association
D7 84 Squadron Association
D8 RAF Yatesbury Association
D9 33 Squadron Association RAF
D10 Harrier Force Association
D11 Air Loadmaster Association
D12 8 Squadron Association RAF
D13 31 Squadron Association
D14 100 Squadron Association
D15 617 Squadron Association
D16 237 OCU Association
D17 is 216 Squadron (RAF) Association
D18 II(AC) Squadron Royal Air Force
D19 WAAF WRAF RAF(W) Association
D20 Women's Royal Air Force Branch of the Royal Air Forces Association
D21 Royal Air Force Police Association
D22 RAFA Caduceus Branch 1373
D23 Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Association
D24 RAF Survival Equipment Association
D25 RAF Music Services Association
D26 RAF and Defence Services Fire Association
D27 RAF Catering Association
D28 Royal Air Forces Association Armourers Association
D29 RAF Trade Group 11 Association
D30 RAF Trade Group 6
D31 Federation of RAF Apprentices and Boy Entrants Association
D32 RAF Engineering and Airfield Construction Branch Association
D33 Flight Engineers and Air Engineers Association
D34 RAF Locking TG3 Association
D35 RAF C-130 Aircraft Ground Engineers Association
D36 RAF Regiment Association
D37 RAF Ex-Prisoners of War Association
D38 1370 Global Branch RAFA
D39 Royal Observer Corps Association
D40 Canopy Club Association
D41 RAF Mountain Rescue Association
D42 Air Sea Rescue & Marine Craft Section Club (RAF)
D43 Coastal Command and Maritime Air Association
D44 RAF Servicing Command and Tactical Supply Wing Association
D45 RAF Movements Association
D46 RAF Linguists' Association
D47 RAF Masirah/RAF Salalah Veterans Association
D48 RAF Physical Education Association
D49 RAF Ex-Service Individuals
Column E Other Veterans Organisations
E1 Spirit of Normandy Trust
E2 Monte Cassino Society
E3 Italy Association 1939 - 1945
E4 Burma Star Memorial Fund
E5 Chindit Society
E6 Commando Society
E7 UK Afghanistan Veterans Community
E8 MERT Club
E9 CASEVAC Club
E10 Royal British Legion
E11 Royal British Legion Scotland
E12 Corps of Commissionaires
E13 Union Jack Club
E14 National Malaya & Borneo Veterans Association
E15 Malayan Volunteers Group
E16 Aden Veterans' Association
E17 South Atlantic Medal Association
E18 National Gulf Veterans and Families Association
E19 British Nuclear Test Veterans Association
E20 Legacy of the Atomic Bomb Recognition for Atomic Test Survivors
E21 British West India Regiments Heritage Trust
E22 Gallantry Medallists' League
E23 King's Volunteer Medal Reserves Association
E24 National Association of Retired Police Officers
E25 Metropolitan Police Armed Forces Veterans Association
E26 International Police Association
E27 The Coastguard Association
E28 Naval Canteen Service and Expeditionary Force Institutes Association
E29 Stoll
E30 Not Forgotten Association
E31 Forces Employment Charity
E32 Armed Forces Veterans Breakfast Club
E33 Devon and Cornwall Armed Forced Veterans Clubs
E34 Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust Veterans Wellbeing Support Group
E35 Care After Combat
E36 HMP Risley Veterans
E37 HM Body of Yeoman Warders of the Tower of London
E38 King's Body Guard of the Yeomen of the Guard
E39 Trucial Oman Scouts Association
E40 15 Psychological Operations Group Black & White Association
E41 South African Legion - UK & Europe
E42 AJEX The Jewish Military Association
E43 Fellowship of the Services 2015
E44 Veterans - War Veterans of the Czech Republic
E45 Hong Kong Ex-Servicemen's Association (UK Branch)
E46 Bond van Wapenbroeders
E47 Memorable Order of Tinhats
E48 Circuit of Service Lodges
E49 Sight Scotland Veterans (formerly Scottish War Blinded)
Column F Widows and Childrens' Organisations
F1 War Widows' Association
F2 Royal Navy and Royal Marines Widows' Association
F3 Army Widows' Association
F4 RAF Widows's Association
F5 Scotty's Little Soldiers
F6 Civilians Killed by Enemy Action Memorial
F7 Children and Families of Far East Prisoners of War
Column R Civilian Organisations
R1 Transport for London
R2 Commonwealth War Graves Commission
R3 First Aid Nursing Yeomanry
R4 Royal National Lifeboat Institution
R5 Gallipoli Association
R6 Gallipoli & Dardanelles International
R7 Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
R8 Blue Cross
R9 PDSA
R10 Civil Defence Association
R11 St Nazaire Society
R12 British Evacuees Association
R13 Women's Royal Voluntary Services / Royal Voluntary Services
R14 The Royal NAAFI
R15 Toc H
R16 Royal Ulster Constabulary GC Association
R17 Metropolitan Special Constabulary
R18 Norfolk Constabulary Ceremonial Association
R19 Post Office Fellowship of Remembrance CIC
R20 St John Ambulance
R21 British Red Cross
R22 St Andrew's First Aid
R23 Munitions Workers Association
R24 Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes
R25 Royal Antediluvian order of Buffaloes Grand Lodge of England Limited
R26 Salvation Army
R27 British Resistance - Coleshill Auxiliary Research Team
R28 National Association of Round Tables of Great Britain and Ireland
R29 National Association of Tangent Clubs
R30 Fighting with Pride
R31 SSAFA, The Armed Forces Charity
R32 Help for Heroes
R33 Polish Contingent
R34 Canadian Veterans
R35 Royal Canadian Legion
R36 Foreign Legion Association of Great Britain
R37 ENSA Memorial
R38 MOD Civilian Support to Operations
R39 Showmen's Guild of Great Britain
R40 Association of Ex-Round Tablers' Clubs
R41 The National Association of Ladies Circles GB&I
Column Y Youth Organisations
Y1 Sea Cadets
Y2 Army Cadets
Y3 RAF Air Cadets
Y4 Combined Cadet Forces
Y5 Volunteer Police Cadets
Y6 Fire Cadets
Y7 St John Ambulance
Y8 The Scout Association
Y9 Girlguiding
Y10 Boys Brigade
Y11 Girls' Brigades Ministries
Y12 Church Lads' and Church Girls' Brigade
Y13 Jewish Lads' and Girls' Brigade
Y14 YMCA
Remembrance Sunday, 10 November 2024
In the United Kingdom, Remembrance Sunday is held on the second Sunday in November, which is the Sunday nearest to 11 November, Armistice Day, the anniversary of the end of hostilities in the First World War at 11 a.m. on 11 November 1918. Remembrance Sunday is held to commemorate the contribution of British and Commonwealth military and civilian servicemen and women in the two World Wars and later conflicts.
Remembrance Sunday is marked by ceremonies at local war memorials in most cities, towns and villages, attended by civic dignitaries, ex-servicemen and -women, members of local armed forces regular and reserve units, military cadet forces and uniformed youth organisations. Two minutes’ silence is observed at 11 a.m. and wreaths of remembrance poppies are then laid on the memorials.
The United Kingdom national ceremony is held in London at the Cenotaph in Whitehall. Wreaths are laid by King Charles III, principal members of the Royal Family, the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Edinburgh and the Princess Royal, the Prime Minister, leaders of the other major political parties, the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, the Home Secretary, Commonwealth High Commissioners and representatives from the Royal Navy, Army and Royal Air Force, the Merchant Navy and Fishing Fleets and the civilian services, and veterans’ groups. In 2024 wreaths were laid by military officers on behalf of Queen Camilla, who did not attend due to illness but normally watches from a balcony, and the Duke of Kent, who viewed the ceremony from a balcony. Two minutes' silence is held at 11 a.m., before the laying of the wreaths. This silence is marked by the firing of a field gun on Horse Guards Parade to begin and end the silence, followed by Royal Marines buglers sounding Last Post.
Other members of the Royal Family watch from the balcony of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. In 2024 the Princess of Wales, the Duchess of Edinburgh, the Duke of Gloucester, the Duchess of Gloucester, the Duke of Kent and Vice Admiral Timothy Laurence watched from the balconies.
After the ceremony, a parade of veterans and other related groups, organised by the Royal British Legion, marches past the Cenotaph, each section of which lays a wreath as it passes. Only ticketed participants can take part in the march past.
From 1919 until the Second World War remembrance observance was always marked on 11 November itself. It was then moved to Remembrance Sunday, but since the 50th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in 1995, it has become usual to hold ceremonies on both Armistice Day and Remembrance Sunday.
Each year, the music at the National Ceremony of Remembrance remains the same, following a programme finalised in 1930:
Rule, Britannia! by Thomas Arne
Heart of Oak by William Boyce
The Minstrel Boy by Thomas Moore
Men of Harlech
The Skye Boat Song
Isle of Beauty by Thomas Haynes Bayly
David of the White Rock
Oft in the Stilly Night by John Stevenson
Flowers of the Forest
Nimrod from the Enigma Variations by Edward Elgar
Dido's lament by Henry Purcell
O Valiant Hearts by Charles Harris
Solemn Melody by Walford Davies
Last Post – a bugle call
Beethoven's Funeral March No. 1, by Johann Heinrich Walch
O God, Our Help in Ages Past – words by Isaac Watts, music by William Croft
Reveille – a bugle call
God Save The King
Other pieces of music are then played during the march past and wreath laying by veterans, starting with Trumpet Voluntary and followed by It's A Long Way To Tipperary, the marching song of the Connaught Rangers, a famous British Army Irish Regiment of long ago.
Following the end of the official service at the Cenotaph, a mammoth column more than 10,000-strong (some 9,000 of whom were veterans) began marching along Whitehall, saluting the Cenotaph as they passed, Parliament Street, Great George Street, Horse Guards Road and back to Horse Guard Parade. The Prince of Wales took the salute from the column on Horse Guards Parade.
In 2024 the column of veterans was led by the Royal Marines Association marking the 360th anniversary of their formation in 1664.
Organisations in the column of veterans are as follows:
Column A Royal Marines and Royal Navy
A1 Royal Marines Association
A2 Royal Naval Association
A3 Royal Fleet Auxiliary Association
A4 Merchant Navy Association National
A5 Fleet Air Arm Association
A6 Aircrewman’s Association
A7 Fleet Air Arm Royal Navy Photographers Association
A8 Royal Navy Medical Branch Ratings and Sick Berth Staff Association
A9 Association of Royal Yachtsmen
A10 HMS Tiger Association
A11 HMS Jupiter Association
A12 Submariners Association
A13 Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service Association
A14 Association of Wrens
A15 Fisgard Association (Artificer Training Establishment Torpoint)
A16 HMS Ganges Association
A17 Royal Naval Communications Association
A18 Royal Navy Physical Training Branch Association
A19 Mine Warfare Association
A20 Royal Navy Clearance Divers Association
A21 Aircraft Handlers Association Royal Navy
A22 AnyFace Association
A23 Fleet Air Arm Armourers Association
A24 Fleet Air Arm Buccaneer Association
A25 Sea Harrier Association
A26 Royal Navy Cloud Observers
A27 Fleet Air Arm Field Gun Association
A28 Fleet Air Arm Junglie Association
A29 Fleet Air Arm Officers Association
A30 Royal Navy Safety Equipment Survival Association
A31 Royal Navy Seaman Specialist Association
A32 Royal Navy Writers Association
A33 TON Class Association
A34 County Class Destroyer Association
A35 Type 21 Association
A36 Type 42 Association
A37 HMS Glasgow Association
A38 HMS Exeter Association
A39 Type 22 Association
A40 HMS Broadsword Association
A41 GLARAC Association (HMS Glorious, Ardent and Ancasta)
A42 HMS Bulwark, Albion & Centaur Association
A43 HMS Hermes Association
A44 HMS Ark Royal Association
A45 HMS Illustrious Association
A46 HMS Blake Association
A47 Fighting G Club, HMS Gloucester Survivor's Association
A48 HMS Ajax and River Plate Veterans' Association
A49 HMS Lowestoft Association
A50 HMS Plymouth
A51 HMS Andromeda Association
A52 HMS Argonaut Association
A53 HMS Ariadne Association
A54 HMS Scylla Association
A55 HMS Penelope Association
A56 Royal Naval Benevolent Trust
A57 Royal Navy Ex-Service Individuals
Column AA Special Veterans' Organisations
AA1 Blind Veterans
AA2 Combat Stress
AA3 BLESMA
AA4 Care for Veterans
AA5 Royal Hospital Chelsea
AA6 Royal Star and Garter
Column B Army, Infantry
B1 Fusilers Association
B2 Royal Northumberland Fusiliers
B3 Royal Anglian Regiment
B4 Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
B5 Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment
B6 London Scottish Regimental Association
B7 Parachute Regimental Association
B8 Guards Parachute Association
B9 Grenadier Guards Association
B10 Coldstream Guards Association
B11 Scots Guards Association
B12 Irish Guards Association, Republic of Ireland Branch
B13 Welsh Guards Association
B14 Royal Regiment of Scotland
B15 Royal Scots Regimental Association
B16 Black Watch Association, London Branch
B17 Fraserburgh, Macduff & North East Gordon Highlanders Association
B18 Gordon Highlanders London Association
B19 King's Own Scottish Borderers' Association
B20 Queen's Own Highlanders' Association
B21 1st Battalion King's Own Royal Border Regiment
B22 East Surrey Reunion Association
B23 The Queen's Regiment
B24 Royal Hampshire Regimental Association
B25 The Royal Yorkshire Regimental Association
B26 Prince of Wales' Own (West and East Yorkshire) Regimental Association.
B27 Green Howards
B28 Cheshire Regiment Association
B29 Worcestershire & Sherwood Foresters Regimental Association
B30 Staffordshire Regiment
B31 Royal Welsh Comrades Association
B32 Combined Irish Regiments Association
B33 Regimental Association of the Royal Irish Regiment in Northern Ireland
B34 Ulster Defence Regiment Association
B35 Rifles Office
B36 Rifles Regimental Association
B37 Rifles and Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment Regimental Association
B38 Devon and Dorset Regiment Association
B39 1 LI Association
B40 Durham Light Infantry Association
B41 Royal Green Jackets
B42 Rifles, Light Infantry and King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Association
B43 Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) & Family Association
B44 The London Regiment Association
Column C Army, Cavalry, Armoured and Support Corps
C1 The Life Guards Association
C2 The Blues and Royals Association
C3 Royal Pioneers Corps Association
C4 Beachley Old Boys Association
C5 Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps Association
C6 The Royal Corps of Army Music
C7 Northern Ireland Veterans' Association
C8 3rd Regiment Royal Horse Artillery Past and Present Members Association
C9 Regimental Home Headquarters 1st Queen's Dragoon Guards
C10 Royal Scots Dragoon Guards
C11 Home Headquarters Royal Dragoon Guards
C12 Queen's Royal Hussars Regimental Association
C13 Royal Lancers (Queen Elizabeth's Own)
C14 The Queen's Royal Lancers Old Comrades Association
C15 16th/5th Queen's Royal Lancers OCA
C16 17th/21st Lancers (Death or Glory Boys) Veterans
C17 King's Royal Hussars Regimental Association
C18 Light Dragoons Regimental Association
C19 Reconnaissance Corps Association
C20 Parachute Squadron Royal Armoured Corps
C21 Royal Artillery Association
C22 Special Observers' Association
C23 Royal Engineers Association
C24 36 Engineer Regiment Veterans
C25 Royal Engineers Bomb Disposal Association
C26 Airborne Engineers Association
C27 Royal Signals Association
C28 Army Air Corps
C29 7 Regiment AAC(V) Association
C30 Glider Pilot Regiment Society
C31 656 Squadron Army Air Corps Association
C32 Royal Logistics Corps Association
C33 Royal Army Ordnance Corps Association
C34 Royal Army Service Corps & Royal Corps of Transport Association
C35 Army Catering Corps Association
C36 Association of Ammunition Technicians
C37 Royal Army Medical Corps Association
C38 Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers Association
C39 Arborfield Old Boys Association
C40 Adjutant General's Corps Association
C41 Military Provost Staff Association
C42 Royal Army Educational Corps
C43 Royal Military Police Association
C44 Royal Army Pay Corps Regimental Association
C45 Royal Army Veterinary Corps Association
C46 Army Dog Unit Northern Ireland (Royal Army Veterinary Corps) Association
C47 Royal Army Dental Corps Association
C48 Intelligence Corps Association
C49 Royal Army Physical Training Corps
C50 Women's Royal Army Corps Association
C51 The Royal Yeomanry
C52 Allied Command Europe Mobile Force
C53 Gurkha Brigade Association
C54 Media Operations Group
C55 British Gurkha Welfare Society
C56 British Fijian Veterans and Families
C57 The Junior Tradesmen's Regiment
C58 Hong Kong Military Service Corps Veterans
C59 Army Ex-Service Individuals
Column D Royal Air Force
D1 Royal Air Forces Association
D2 6 Squadron (Royal Air Force) Association
D3 No 7 Squadron Association
D4 9 Squadron Association RAF
D5 18 (B) Squadron Association
D6 202 Squadron Association
D7 84 Squadron Association
D8 RAF Yatesbury Association
D9 33 Squadron Association RAF
D10 Harrier Force Association
D11 Air Loadmaster Association
D12 8 Squadron Association RAF
D13 31 Squadron Association
D14 100 Squadron Association
D15 617 Squadron Association
D16 237 OCU Association
D17 is 216 Squadron (RAF) Association
D18 II(AC) Squadron Royal Air Force
D19 WAAF WRAF RAF(W) Association
D20 Women's Royal Air Force Branch of the Royal Air Forces Association
D21 Royal Air Force Police Association
D22 RAFA Caduceus Branch 1373
D23 Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Association
D24 RAF Survival Equipment Association
D25 RAF Music Services Association
D26 RAF and Defence Services Fire Association
D27 RAF Catering Association
D28 Royal Air Forces Association Armourers Association
D29 RAF Trade Group 11 Association
D30 RAF Trade Group 6
D31 Federation of RAF Apprentices and Boy Entrants Association
D32 RAF Engineering and Airfield Construction Branch Association
D33 Flight Engineers and Air Engineers Association
D34 RAF Locking TG3 Association
D35 RAF C-130 Aircraft Ground Engineers Association
D36 RAF Regiment Association
D37 RAF Ex-Prisoners of War Association
D38 1370 Global Branch RAFA
D39 Royal Observer Corps Association
D40 Canopy Club Association
D41 RAF Mountain Rescue Association
D42 Air Sea Rescue & Marine Craft Section Club (RAF)
D43 Coastal Command and Maritime Air Association
D44 RAF Servicing Command and Tactical Supply Wing Association
D45 RAF Movements Association
D46 RAF Linguists' Association
D47 RAF Masirah/RAF Salalah Veterans Association
D48 RAF Physical Education Association
D49 RAF Ex-Service Individuals
Column E Other Veterans Organisations
E1 Spirit of Normandy Trust
E2 Monte Cassino Society
E3 Italy Association 1939 - 1945
E4 Burma Star Memorial Fund
E5 Chindit Society
E6 Commando Society
E7 UK Afghanistan Veterans Community
E8 MERT Club
E9 CASEVAC Club
E10 Royal British Legion
E11 Royal British Legion Scotland
E12 Corps of Commissionaires
E13 Union Jack Club
E14 National Malaya & Borneo Veterans Association
E15 Malayan Volunteers Group
E16 Aden Veterans' Association
E17 South Atlantic Medal Association
E18 National Gulf Veterans and Families Association
E19 British Nuclear Test Veterans Association
E20 Legacy of the Atomic Bomb Recognition for Atomic Test Survivors
E21 British West India Regiments Heritage Trust
E22 Gallantry Medallists' League
E23 King's Volunteer Medal Reserves Association
E24 National Association of Retired Police Officers
E25 Metropolitan Police Armed Forces Veterans Association
E26 International Police Association
E27 The Coastguard Association
E28 Naval Canteen Service and Expeditionary Force Institutes Association
E29 Stoll
E30 Not Forgotten Association
E31 Forces Employment Charity
E32 Armed Forces Veterans Breakfast Club
E33 Devon and Cornwall Armed Forced Veterans Clubs
E34 Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust Veterans Wellbeing Support Group
E35 Care After Combat
E36 HMP Risley Veterans
E37 HM Body of Yeoman Warders of the Tower of London
E38 King's Body Guard of the Yeomen of the Guard
E39 Trucial Oman Scouts Association
E40 15 Psychological Operations Group Black & White Association
E41 South African Legion - UK & Europe
E42 AJEX The Jewish Military Association
E43 Fellowship of the Services 2015
E44 Veterans - War Veterans of the Czech Republic
E45 Hong Kong Ex-Servicemen's Association (UK Branch)
E46 Bond van Wapenbroeders
E47 Memorable Order of Tinhats
E48 Circuit of Service Lodges
E49 Sight Scotland Veterans (formerly Scottish War Blinded)
Column F Widows and Childrens' Organisations
F1 War Widows' Association
F2 Royal Navy and Royal Marines Widows' Association
F3 Army Widows' Association
F4 RAF Widows's Association
F5 Scotty's Little Soldiers
F6 Civilians Killed by Enemy Action Memorial
F7 Children and Families of Far East Prisoners of War
Column R Civilian Organisations
R1 Transport for London
R2 Commonwealth War Graves Commission
R3 First Aid Nursing Yeomanry
R4 Royal National Lifeboat Institution
R5 Gallipoli Association
R6 Gallipoli & Dardanelles International
R7 Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
R8 Blue Cross
R9 PDSA
R10 Civil Defence Association
R11 St Nazaire Society
R12 British Evacuees Association
R13 Women's Royal Voluntary Services / Royal Voluntary Services
R14 The Royal NAAFI
R15 Toc H
R16 Royal Ulster Constabulary GC Association
R17 Metropolitan Special Constabulary
R18 Norfolk Constabulary Ceremonial Association
R19 Post Office Fellowship of Remembrance CIC
R20 St John Ambulance
R21 British Red Cross
R22 St Andrew's First Aid
R23 Munitions Workers Association
R24 Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes
R25 Royal Antediluvian order of Buffaloes Grand Lodge of England Limited
R26 Salvation Army
R27 British Resistance - Coleshill Auxiliary Research Team
R28 National Association of Round Tables of Great Britain and Ireland
R29 National Association of Tangent Clubs
R30 Fighting with Pride
R31 SSAFA, The Armed Forces Charity
R32 Help for Heroes
R33 Polish Contingent
R34 Canadian Veterans
R35 Royal Canadian Legion
R36 Foreign Legion Association of Great Britain
R37 ENSA Memorial
R38 MOD Civilian Support to Operations
R39 Showmen's Guild of Great Britain
R40 Association of Ex-Round Tablers' Clubs
R41 The National Association of Ladies Circles GB&I
Column Y Youth Organisations
Y1 Sea Cadets
Y2 Army Cadets
Y3 RAF Air Cadets
Y4 Combined Cadet Forces
Y5 Volunteer Police Cadets
Y6 Fire Cadets
Y7 St John Ambulance
Y8 The Scout Association
Y9 Girlguiding
Y10 Boys Brigade
Y11 Girls' Brigades Ministries
Y12 Church Lads' and Church Girls' Brigade
Y13 Jewish Lads' and Girls' Brigade
Y14 YMCA
Estonian Defence Force Soldiers serving with Estcoy-19 take part in live-fire tactical training while serving in Iraq as part of Operation Inherent Resolve
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Remembrance Sunday, 10 November 2024
In the United Kingdom, Remembrance Sunday is held on the second Sunday in November, which is the Sunday nearest to 11 November, Armistice Day, the anniversary of the end of hostilities in the First World War at 11 a.m. on 11 November 1918. Remembrance Sunday is held to commemorate the contribution of British and Commonwealth military and civilian servicemen and women in the two World Wars and later conflicts.
Remembrance Sunday is marked by ceremonies at local war memorials in most cities, towns and villages, attended by civic dignitaries, ex-servicemen and -women, members of local armed forces regular and reserve units, military cadet forces and uniformed youth organisations. Two minutes’ silence is observed at 11 a.m. and wreaths of remembrance poppies are then laid on the memorials.
The United Kingdom national ceremony is held in London at the Cenotaph in Whitehall. Wreaths are laid by King Charles III, principal members of the Royal Family, the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Edinburgh and the Princess Royal, the Prime Minister, leaders of the other major political parties, the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, the Home Secretary, Commonwealth High Commissioners and representatives from the Royal Navy, Army and Royal Air Force, the Merchant Navy and Fishing Fleets and the civilian services, and veterans’ groups. In 2024 wreaths were laid by military officers on behalf of Queen Camilla, who did not attend due to illness but normally watches from a balcony, and the Duke of Kent, who viewed the ceremony from a balcony. Two minutes' silence is held at 11 a.m., before the laying of the wreaths. This silence is marked by the firing of a field gun on Horse Guards Parade to begin and end the silence, followed by Royal Marines buglers sounding Last Post.
Other members of the Royal Family watch from the balcony of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. In 2024 the Princess of Wales, the Duchess of Edinburgh, the Duke of Gloucester, the Duchess of Gloucester, the Duke of Kent and Vice Admiral Timothy Laurence watched from the balconies.
After the ceremony, a parade of veterans and other related groups, organised by the Royal British Legion, marches past the Cenotaph, each section of which lays a wreath as it passes. Only ticketed participants can take part in the march past.
From 1919 until the Second World War remembrance observance was always marked on 11 November itself. It was then moved to Remembrance Sunday, but since the 50th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in 1995, it has become usual to hold ceremonies on both Armistice Day and Remembrance Sunday.
Each year, the music at the National Ceremony of Remembrance remains the same, following a programme finalised in 1930:
Rule, Britannia! by Thomas Arne
Heart of Oak by William Boyce
The Minstrel Boy by Thomas Moore
Men of Harlech
The Skye Boat Song
Isle of Beauty by Thomas Haynes Bayly
David of the White Rock
Oft in the Stilly Night by John Stevenson
Flowers of the Forest
Nimrod from the Enigma Variations by Edward Elgar
Dido's lament by Henry Purcell
O Valiant Hearts by Charles Harris
Solemn Melody by Walford Davies
Last Post – a bugle call
Beethoven's Funeral March No. 1, by Johann Heinrich Walch
O God, Our Help in Ages Past – words by Isaac Watts, music by William Croft
Reveille – a bugle call
God Save The King
Other pieces of music are then played during the march past and wreath laying by veterans, starting with Trumpet Voluntary and followed by It's A Long Way To Tipperary, the marching song of the Connaught Rangers, a famous British Army Irish Regiment of long ago.
Following the end of the official service at the Cenotaph, a mammoth column more than 10,000-strong (some 9,000 of whom were veterans) began marching along Whitehall, saluting the Cenotaph as they passed, Parliament Street, Great George Street, Horse Guards Road and back to Horse Guard Parade. The Prince of Wales took the salute from the column on Horse Guards Parade.
In 2024 the column of veterans was led by the Royal Marines Association marking the 360th anniversary of their formation in 1664.
Organisations in the column of veterans are as follows:
Column A Royal Marines and Royal Navy
A1 Royal Marines Association
A2 Royal Naval Association
A3 Royal Fleet Auxiliary Association
A4 Merchant Navy Association National
A5 Fleet Air Arm Association
A6 Aircrewman’s Association
A7 Fleet Air Arm Royal Navy Photographers Association
A8 Royal Navy Medical Branch Ratings and Sick Berth Staff Association
A9 Association of Royal Yachtsmen
A10 HMS Tiger Association
A11 HMS Jupiter Association
A12 Submariners Association
A13 Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service Association
A14 Association of Wrens
A15 Fisgard Association (Artificer Training Establishment Torpoint)
A16 HMS Ganges Association
A17 Royal Naval Communications Association
A18 Royal Navy Physical Training Branch Association
A19 Mine Warfare Association
A20 Royal Navy Clearance Divers Association
A21 Aircraft Handlers Association Royal Navy
A22 AnyFace Association
A23 Fleet Air Arm Armourers Association
A24 Fleet Air Arm Buccaneer Association
A25 Sea Harrier Association
A26 Royal Navy Cloud Observers
A27 Fleet Air Arm Field Gun Association
A28 Fleet Air Arm Junglie Association
A29 Fleet Air Arm Officers Association
A30 Royal Navy Safety Equipment Survival Association
A31 Royal Navy Seaman Specialist Association
A32 Royal Navy Writers Association
A33 TON Class Association
A34 County Class Destroyer Association
A35 Type 21 Association
A36 Type 42 Association
A37 HMS Glasgow Association
A38 HMS Exeter Association
A39 Type 22 Association
A40 HMS Broadsword Association
A41 GLARAC Association (HMS Glorious, Ardent and Ancasta)
A42 HMS Bulwark, Albion & Centaur Association
A43 HMS Hermes Association
A44 HMS Ark Royal Association
A45 HMS Illustrious Association
A46 HMS Blake Association
A47 Fighting G Club, HMS Gloucester Survivor's Association
A48 HMS Ajax and River Plate Veterans' Association
A49 HMS Lowestoft Association
A50 HMS Plymouth
A51 HMS Andromeda Association
A52 HMS Argonaut Association
A53 HMS Ariadne Association
A54 HMS Scylla Association
A55 HMS Penelope Association
A56 Royal Naval Benevolent Trust
A57 Royal Navy Ex-Service Individuals
Column AA Special Veterans' Organisations
AA1 Blind Veterans
AA2 Combat Stress
AA3 BLESMA
AA4 Care for Veterans
AA5 Royal Hospital Chelsea
AA6 Royal Star and Garter
Column B Army, Infantry
B1 Fusilers Association
B2 Royal Northumberland Fusiliers
B3 Royal Anglian Regiment
B4 Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
B5 Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment
B6 London Scottish Regimental Association
B7 Parachute Regimental Association
B8 Guards Parachute Association
B9 Grenadier Guards Association
B10 Coldstream Guards Association
B11 Scots Guards Association
B12 Irish Guards Association, Republic of Ireland Branch
B13 Welsh Guards Association
B14 Royal Regiment of Scotland
B15 Royal Scots Regimental Association
B16 Black Watch Association, London Branch
B17 Fraserburgh, Macduff & North East Gordon Highlanders Association
B18 Gordon Highlanders London Association
B19 King's Own Scottish Borderers' Association
B20 Queen's Own Highlanders' Association
B21 1st Battalion King's Own Royal Border Regiment
B22 East Surrey Reunion Association
B23 The Queen's Regiment
B24 Royal Hampshire Regimental Association
B25 The Royal Yorkshire Regimental Association
B26 Prince of Wales' Own (West and East Yorkshire) Regimental Association.
B27 Green Howards
B28 Cheshire Regiment Association
B29 Worcestershire & Sherwood Foresters Regimental Association
B30 Staffordshire Regiment
B31 Royal Welsh Comrades Association
B32 Combined Irish Regiments Association
B33 Regimental Association of the Royal Irish Regiment in Northern Ireland
B34 Ulster Defence Regiment Association
B35 Rifles Office
B36 Rifles Regimental Association
B37 Rifles and Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment Regimental Association
B38 Devon and Dorset Regiment Association
B39 1 LI Association
B40 Durham Light Infantry Association
B41 Royal Green Jackets
B42 Rifles, Light Infantry and King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Association
B43 Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) & Family Association
B44 The London Regiment Association
Column C Army, Cavalry, Armoured and Support Corps
C1 The Life Guards Association
C2 The Blues and Royals Association
C3 Royal Pioneers Corps Association
C4 Beachley Old Boys Association
C5 Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps Association
C6 The Royal Corps of Army Music
C7 Northern Ireland Veterans' Association
C8 3rd Regiment Royal Horse Artillery Past and Present Members Association
C9 Regimental Home Headquarters 1st Queen's Dragoon Guards
C10 Royal Scots Dragoon Guards
C11 Home Headquarters Royal Dragoon Guards
C12 Queen's Royal Hussars Regimental Association
C13 Royal Lancers (Queen Elizabeth's Own)
C14 The Queen's Royal Lancers Old Comrades Association
C15 16th/5th Queen's Royal Lancers OCA
C16 17th/21st Lancers (Death or Glory Boys) Veterans
C17 King's Royal Hussars Regimental Association
C18 Light Dragoons Regimental Association
C19 Reconnaissance Corps Association
C20 Parachute Squadron Royal Armoured Corps
C21 Royal Artillery Association
C22 Special Observers' Association
C23 Royal Engineers Association
C24 36 Engineer Regiment Veterans
C25 Royal Engineers Bomb Disposal Association
C26 Airborne Engineers Association
C27 Royal Signals Association
C28 Army Air Corps
C29 7 Regiment AAC(V) Association
C30 Glider Pilot Regiment Society
C31 656 Squadron Army Air Corps Association
C32 Royal Logistics Corps Association
C33 Royal Army Ordnance Corps Association
C34 Royal Army Service Corps & Royal Corps of Transport Association
C35 Army Catering Corps Association
C36 Association of Ammunition Technicians
C37 Royal Army Medical Corps Association
C38 Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers Association
C39 Arborfield Old Boys Association
C40 Adjutant General's Corps Association
C41 Military Provost Staff Association
C42 Royal Army Educational Corps
C43 Royal Military Police Association
C44 Royal Army Pay Corps Regimental Association
C45 Royal Army Veterinary Corps Association
C46 Army Dog Unit Northern Ireland (Royal Army Veterinary Corps) Association
C47 Royal Army Dental Corps Association
C48 Intelligence Corps Association
C49 Royal Army Physical Training Corps
C50 Women's Royal Army Corps Association
C51 The Royal Yeomanry
C52 Allied Command Europe Mobile Force
C53 Gurkha Brigade Association
C54 Media Operations Group
C55 British Gurkha Welfare Society
C56 British Fijian Veterans and Families
C57 The Junior Tradesmen's Regiment
C58 Hong Kong Military Service Corps Veterans
C59 Army Ex-Service Individuals
Column D Royal Air Force
D1 Royal Air Forces Association
D2 6 Squadron (Royal Air Force) Association
D3 No 7 Squadron Association
D4 9 Squadron Association RAF
D5 18 (B) Squadron Association
D6 202 Squadron Association
D7 84 Squadron Association
D8 RAF Yatesbury Association
D9 33 Squadron Association RAF
D10 Harrier Force Association
D11 Air Loadmaster Association
D12 8 Squadron Association RAF
D13 31 Squadron Association
D14 100 Squadron Association
D15 617 Squadron Association
D16 237 OCU Association
D17 is 216 Squadron (RAF) Association
D18 II(AC) Squadron Royal Air Force
D19 WAAF WRAF RAF(W) Association
D20 Women's Royal Air Force Branch of the Royal Air Forces Association
D21 Royal Air Force Police Association
D22 RAFA Caduceus Branch 1373
D23 Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Association
D24 RAF Survival Equipment Association
D25 RAF Music Services Association
D26 RAF and Defence Services Fire Association
D27 RAF Catering Association
D28 Royal Air Forces Association Armourers Association
D29 RAF Trade Group 11 Association
D30 RAF Trade Group 6
D31 Federation of RAF Apprentices and Boy Entrants Association
D32 RAF Engineering and Airfield Construction Branch Association
D33 Flight Engineers and Air Engineers Association
D34 RAF Locking TG3 Association
D35 RAF C-130 Aircraft Ground Engineers Association
D36 RAF Regiment Association
D37 RAF Ex-Prisoners of War Association
D38 1370 Global Branch RAFA
D39 Royal Observer Corps Association
D40 Canopy Club Association
D41 RAF Mountain Rescue Association
D42 Air Sea Rescue & Marine Craft Section Club (RAF)
D43 Coastal Command and Maritime Air Association
D44 RAF Servicing Command and Tactical Supply Wing Association
D45 RAF Movements Association
D46 RAF Linguists' Association
D47 RAF Masirah/RAF Salalah Veterans Association
D48 RAF Physical Education Association
D49 RAF Ex-Service Individuals
Column E Other Veterans Organisations
E1 Spirit of Normandy Trust
E2 Monte Cassino Society
E3 Italy Association 1939 - 1945
E4 Burma Star Memorial Fund
E5 Chindit Society
E6 Commando Society
E7 UK Afghanistan Veterans Community
E8 MERT Club
E9 CASEVAC Club
E10 Royal British Legion
E11 Royal British Legion Scotland
E12 Corps of Commissionaires
E13 Union Jack Club
E14 National Malaya & Borneo Veterans Association
E15 Malayan Volunteers Group
E16 Aden Veterans' Association
E17 South Atlantic Medal Association
E18 National Gulf Veterans and Families Association
E19 British Nuclear Test Veterans Association
E20 Legacy of the Atomic Bomb Recognition for Atomic Test Survivors
E21 British West India Regiments Heritage Trust
E22 Gallantry Medallists' League
E23 King's Volunteer Medal Reserves Association
E24 National Association of Retired Police Officers
E25 Metropolitan Police Armed Forces Veterans Association
E26 International Police Association
E27 The Coastguard Association
E28 Naval Canteen Service and Expeditionary Force Institutes Association
E29 Stoll
E30 Not Forgotten Association
E31 Forces Employment Charity
E32 Armed Forces Veterans Breakfast Club
E33 Devon and Cornwall Armed Forced Veterans Clubs
E34 Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust Veterans Wellbeing Support Group
E35 Care After Combat
E36 HMP Risley Veterans
E37 HM Body of Yeoman Warders of the Tower of London
E38 King's Body Guard of the Yeomen of the Guard
E39 Trucial Oman Scouts Association
E40 15 Psychological Operations Group Black & White Association
E41 South African Legion - UK & Europe
E42 AJEX The Jewish Military Association
E43 Fellowship of the Services 2015
E44 Veterans - War Veterans of the Czech Republic
E45 Hong Kong Ex-Servicemen's Association (UK Branch)
E46 Bond van Wapenbroeders
E47 Memorable Order of Tinhats
E48 Circuit of Service Lodges
E49 Sight Scotland Veterans (formerly Scottish War Blinded)
Column F Widows and Childrens' Organisations
F1 War Widows' Association
F2 Royal Navy and Royal Marines Widows' Association
F3 Army Widows' Association
F4 RAF Widows's Association
F5 Scotty's Little Soldiers
F6 Civilians Killed by Enemy Action Memorial
F7 Children and Families of Far East Prisoners of War
Column R Civilian Organisations
R1 Transport for London
R2 Commonwealth War Graves Commission
R3 First Aid Nursing Yeomanry
R4 Royal National Lifeboat Institution
R5 Gallipoli Association
R6 Gallipoli & Dardanelles International
R7 Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
R8 Blue Cross
R9 PDSA
R10 Civil Defence Association
R11 St Nazaire Society
R12 British Evacuees Association
R13 Women's Royal Voluntary Services / Royal Voluntary Services
R14 The Royal NAAFI
R15 Toc H
R16 Royal Ulster Constabulary GC Association
R17 Metropolitan Special Constabulary
R18 Norfolk Constabulary Ceremonial Association
R19 Post Office Fellowship of Remembrance CIC
R20 St John Ambulance
R21 British Red Cross
R22 St Andrew's First Aid
R23 Munitions Workers Association
R24 Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes
R25 Royal Antediluvian order of Buffaloes Grand Lodge of England Limited
R26 Salvation Army
R27 British Resistance - Coleshill Auxiliary Research Team
R28 National Association of Round Tables of Great Britain and Ireland
R29 National Association of Tangent Clubs
R30 Fighting with Pride
R31 SSAFA, The Armed Forces Charity
R32 Help for Heroes
R33 Polish Contingent
R34 Canadian Veterans
R35 Royal Canadian Legion
R36 Foreign Legion Association of Great Britain
R37 ENSA Memorial
R38 MOD Civilian Support to Operations
R39 Showmen's Guild of Great Britain
R40 Association of Ex-Round Tablers' Clubs
R41 The National Association of Ladies Circles GB&I
Column Y Youth Organisations
Y1 Sea Cadets
Y2 Army Cadets
Y3 RAF Air Cadets
Y4 Combined Cadet Forces
Y5 Volunteer Police Cadets
Y6 Fire Cadets
Y7 St John Ambulance
Y8 The Scout Association
Y9 Girlguiding
Y10 Boys Brigade
Y11 Girls' Brigades Ministries
Y12 Church Lads' and Church Girls' Brigade
Y13 Jewish Lads' and Girls' Brigade
Y14 YMCA
Uns Landratten haben die Wellen und ihre Kräfte immer wieder beeindruckt.
The force of the waves impressed us much.
2023 Armed Forces Sports Men's Rugby Championship held in conjunction with the Rugbytown 7's Rugby Tournament in Glendale, Colo. Championship features teams from the Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force (with Space Force players), and Coast Guard. (Dept. of Defense photo by Mr. Steven Dinote, released)
Remembrance Sunday, 10 November 2024
In the United Kingdom, Remembrance Sunday is held on the second Sunday in November, which is the Sunday nearest to 11 November, Armistice Day, the anniversary of the end of hostilities in the First World War at 11 a.m. on 11 November 1918. Remembrance Sunday is held to commemorate the contribution of British and Commonwealth military and civilian servicemen and women in the two World Wars and later conflicts.
Remembrance Sunday is marked by ceremonies at local war memorials in most cities, towns and villages, attended by civic dignitaries, ex-servicemen and -women, members of local armed forces regular and reserve units, military cadet forces and uniformed youth organisations. Two minutes’ silence is observed at 11 a.m. and wreaths of remembrance poppies are then laid on the memorials.
The United Kingdom national ceremony is held in London at the Cenotaph in Whitehall. Wreaths are laid by King Charles III, principal members of the Royal Family, the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Edinburgh and the Princess Royal, the Prime Minister, leaders of the other major political parties, the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, the Home Secretary, Commonwealth High Commissioners and representatives from the Royal Navy, Army and Royal Air Force, the Merchant Navy and Fishing Fleets and the civilian services, and veterans’ groups. In 2024 wreaths were laid by military officers on behalf of Queen Camilla, who did not attend due to illness but normally watches from a balcony, and the Duke of Kent, who viewed the ceremony from a balcony. Two minutes' silence is held at 11 a.m., before the laying of the wreaths. This silence is marked by the firing of a field gun on Horse Guards Parade to begin and end the silence, followed by Royal Marines buglers sounding Last Post.
Other members of the Royal Family watch from the balcony of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. In 2024 the Princess of Wales, the Duchess of Edinburgh, the Duke of Gloucester, the Duchess of Gloucester, the Duke of Kent and Vice Admiral Timothy Laurence watched from the balconies.
After the ceremony, a parade of veterans and other related groups, organised by the Royal British Legion, marches past the Cenotaph, each section of which lays a wreath as it passes. Only ticketed participants can take part in the march past.
From 1919 until the Second World War remembrance observance was always marked on 11 November itself. It was then moved to Remembrance Sunday, but since the 50th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in 1995, it has become usual to hold ceremonies on both Armistice Day and Remembrance Sunday.
Each year, the music at the National Ceremony of Remembrance remains the same, following a programme finalised in 1930:
Rule, Britannia! by Thomas Arne
Heart of Oak by William Boyce
The Minstrel Boy by Thomas Moore
Men of Harlech
The Skye Boat Song
Isle of Beauty by Thomas Haynes Bayly
David of the White Rock
Oft in the Stilly Night by John Stevenson
Flowers of the Forest
Nimrod from the Enigma Variations by Edward Elgar
Dido's lament by Henry Purcell
O Valiant Hearts by Charles Harris
Solemn Melody by Walford Davies
Last Post – a bugle call
Beethoven's Funeral March No. 1, by Johann Heinrich Walch
O God, Our Help in Ages Past – words by Isaac Watts, music by William Croft
Reveille – a bugle call
God Save The King
Other pieces of music are then played during the march past and wreath laying by veterans, starting with Trumpet Voluntary and followed by It's A Long Way To Tipperary, the marching song of the Connaught Rangers, a famous British Army Irish Regiment of long ago.
Following the end of the official service at the Cenotaph, a mammoth column more than 10,000-strong (some 9,000 of whom were veterans) began marching along Whitehall, saluting the Cenotaph as they passed, Parliament Street, Great George Street, Horse Guards Road and back to Horse Guard Parade. The Prince of Wales took the salute from the column on Horse Guards Parade.
In 2024 the column of veterans was led by the Royal Marines Association marking the 360th anniversary of their formation in 1664.
Organisations in the column of veterans are as follows:
Column A Royal Marines and Royal Navy
A1 Royal Marines Association
A2 Royal Naval Association
A3 Royal Fleet Auxiliary Association
A4 Merchant Navy Association National
A5 Fleet Air Arm Association
A6 Aircrewman’s Association
A7 Fleet Air Arm Royal Navy Photographers Association
A8 Royal Navy Medical Branch Ratings and Sick Berth Staff Association
A9 Association of Royal Yachtsmen
A10 HMS Tiger Association
A11 HMS Jupiter Association
A12 Submariners Association
A13 Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service Association
A14 Association of Wrens
A15 Fisgard Association (Artificer Training Establishment Torpoint)
A16 HMS Ganges Association
A17 Royal Naval Communications Association
A18 Royal Navy Physical Training Branch Association
A19 Mine Warfare Association
A20 Royal Navy Clearance Divers Association
A21 Aircraft Handlers Association Royal Navy
A22 AnyFace Association
A23 Fleet Air Arm Armourers Association
A24 Fleet Air Arm Buccaneer Association
A25 Sea Harrier Association
A26 Royal Navy Cloud Observers
A27 Fleet Air Arm Field Gun Association
A28 Fleet Air Arm Junglie Association
A29 Fleet Air Arm Officers Association
A30 Royal Navy Safety Equipment Survival Association
A31 Royal Navy Seaman Specialist Association
A32 Royal Navy Writers Association
A33 TON Class Association
A34 County Class Destroyer Association
A35 Type 21 Association
A36 Type 42 Association
A37 HMS Glasgow Association
A38 HMS Exeter Association
A39 Type 22 Association
A40 HMS Broadsword Association
A41 GLARAC Association (HMS Glorious, Ardent and Ancasta)
A42 HMS Bulwark, Albion & Centaur Association
A43 HMS Hermes Association
A44 HMS Ark Royal Association
A45 HMS Illustrious Association
A46 HMS Blake Association
A47 Fighting G Club, HMS Gloucester Survivor's Association
A48 HMS Ajax and River Plate Veterans' Association
A49 HMS Lowestoft Association
A50 HMS Plymouth
A51 HMS Andromeda Association
A52 HMS Argonaut Association
A53 HMS Ariadne Association
A54 HMS Scylla Association
A55 HMS Penelope Association
A56 Royal Naval Benevolent Trust
A57 Royal Navy Ex-Service Individuals
Column AA Special Veterans' Organisations
AA1 Blind Veterans
AA2 Combat Stress
AA3 BLESMA
AA4 Care for Veterans
AA5 Royal Hospital Chelsea
AA6 Royal Star and Garter
Column B Army, Infantry
B1 Fusilers Association
B2 Royal Northumberland Fusiliers
B3 Royal Anglian Regiment
B4 Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
B5 Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment
B6 London Scottish Regimental Association
B7 Parachute Regimental Association
B8 Guards Parachute Association
B9 Grenadier Guards Association
B10 Coldstream Guards Association
B11 Scots Guards Association
B12 Irish Guards Association, Republic of Ireland Branch
B13 Welsh Guards Association
B14 Royal Regiment of Scotland
B15 Royal Scots Regimental Association
B16 Black Watch Association, London Branch
B17 Fraserburgh, Macduff & North East Gordon Highlanders Association
B18 Gordon Highlanders London Association
B19 King's Own Scottish Borderers' Association
B20 Queen's Own Highlanders' Association
B21 1st Battalion King's Own Royal Border Regiment
B22 East Surrey Reunion Association
B23 The Queen's Regiment
B24 Royal Hampshire Regimental Association
B25 The Royal Yorkshire Regimental Association
B26 Prince of Wales' Own (West and East Yorkshire) Regimental Association.
B27 Green Howards
B28 Cheshire Regiment Association
B29 Worcestershire & Sherwood Foresters Regimental Association
B30 Staffordshire Regiment
B31 Royal Welsh Comrades Association
B32 Combined Irish Regiments Association
B33 Regimental Association of the Royal Irish Regiment in Northern Ireland
B34 Ulster Defence Regiment Association
B35 Rifles Office
B36 Rifles Regimental Association
B37 Rifles and Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment Regimental Association
B38 Devon and Dorset Regiment Association
B39 1 LI Association
B40 Durham Light Infantry Association
B41 Royal Green Jackets
B42 Rifles, Light Infantry and King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Association
B43 Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) & Family Association
B44 The London Regiment Association
Column C Army, Cavalry, Armoured and Support Corps
C1 The Life Guards Association
C2 The Blues and Royals Association
C3 Royal Pioneers Corps Association
C4 Beachley Old Boys Association
C5 Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps Association
C6 The Royal Corps of Army Music
C7 Northern Ireland Veterans' Association
C8 3rd Regiment Royal Horse Artillery Past and Present Members Association
C9 Regimental Home Headquarters 1st Queen's Dragoon Guards
C10 Royal Scots Dragoon Guards
C11 Home Headquarters Royal Dragoon Guards
C12 Queen's Royal Hussars Regimental Association
C13 Royal Lancers (Queen Elizabeth's Own)
C14 The Queen's Royal Lancers Old Comrades Association
C15 16th/5th Queen's Royal Lancers OCA
C16 17th/21st Lancers (Death or Glory Boys) Veterans
C17 King's Royal Hussars Regimental Association
C18 Light Dragoons Regimental Association
C19 Reconnaissance Corps Association
C20 Parachute Squadron Royal Armoured Corps
C21 Royal Artillery Association
C22 Special Observers' Association
C23 Royal Engineers Association
C24 36 Engineer Regiment Veterans
C25 Royal Engineers Bomb Disposal Association
C26 Airborne Engineers Association
C27 Royal Signals Association
C28 Army Air Corps
C29 7 Regiment AAC(V) Association
C30 Glider Pilot Regiment Society
C31 656 Squadron Army Air Corps Association
C32 Royal Logistics Corps Association
C33 Royal Army Ordnance Corps Association
C34 Royal Army Service Corps & Royal Corps of Transport Association
C35 Army Catering Corps Association
C36 Association of Ammunition Technicians
C37 Royal Army Medical Corps Association
C38 Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers Association
C39 Arborfield Old Boys Association
C40 Adjutant General's Corps Association
C41 Military Provost Staff Association
C42 Royal Army Educational Corps
C43 Royal Military Police Association
C44 Royal Army Pay Corps Regimental Association
C45 Royal Army Veterinary Corps Association
C46 Army Dog Unit Northern Ireland (Royal Army Veterinary Corps) Association
C47 Royal Army Dental Corps Association
C48 Intelligence Corps Association
C49 Royal Army Physical Training Corps
C50 Women's Royal Army Corps Association
C51 The Royal Yeomanry
C52 Allied Command Europe Mobile Force
C53 Gurkha Brigade Association
C54 Media Operations Group
C55 British Gurkha Welfare Society
C56 British Fijian Veterans and Families
C57 The Junior Tradesmen's Regiment
C58 Hong Kong Military Service Corps Veterans
C59 Army Ex-Service Individuals
Column D Royal Air Force
D1 Royal Air Forces Association
D2 6 Squadron (Royal Air Force) Association
D3 No 7 Squadron Association
D4 9 Squadron Association RAF
D5 18 (B) Squadron Association
D6 202 Squadron Association
D7 84 Squadron Association
D8 RAF Yatesbury Association
D9 33 Squadron Association RAF
D10 Harrier Force Association
D11 Air Loadmaster Association
D12 8 Squadron Association RAF
D13 31 Squadron Association
D14 100 Squadron Association
D15 617 Squadron Association
D16 237 OCU Association
D17 is 216 Squadron (RAF) Association
D18 II(AC) Squadron Royal Air Force
D19 WAAF WRAF RAF(W) Association
D20 Women's Royal Air Force Branch of the Royal Air Forces Association
D21 Royal Air Force Police Association
D22 RAFA Caduceus Branch 1373
D23 Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Association
D24 RAF Survival Equipment Association
D25 RAF Music Services Association
D26 RAF and Defence Services Fire Association
D27 RAF Catering Association
D28 Royal Air Forces Association Armourers Association
D29 RAF Trade Group 11 Association
D30 RAF Trade Group 6
D31 Federation of RAF Apprentices and Boy Entrants Association
D32 RAF Engineering and Airfield Construction Branch Association
D33 Flight Engineers and Air Engineers Association
D34 RAF Locking TG3 Association
D35 RAF C-130 Aircraft Ground Engineers Association
D36 RAF Regiment Association
D37 RAF Ex-Prisoners of War Association
D38 1370 Global Branch RAFA
D39 Royal Observer Corps Association
D40 Canopy Club Association
D41 RAF Mountain Rescue Association
D42 Air Sea Rescue & Marine Craft Section Club (RAF)
D43 Coastal Command and Maritime Air Association
D44 RAF Servicing Command and Tactical Supply Wing Association
D45 RAF Movements Association
D46 RAF Linguists' Association
D47 RAF Masirah/RAF Salalah Veterans Association
D48 RAF Physical Education Association
D49 RAF Ex-Service Individuals
Column E Other Veterans Organisations
E1 Spirit of Normandy Trust
E2 Monte Cassino Society
E3 Italy Association 1939 - 1945
E4 Burma Star Memorial Fund
E5 Chindit Society
E6 Commando Society
E7 UK Afghanistan Veterans Community
E8 MERT Club
E9 CASEVAC Club
E10 Royal British Legion
E11 Royal British Legion Scotland
E12 Corps of Commissionaires
E13 Union Jack Club
E14 National Malaya & Borneo Veterans Association
E15 Malayan Volunteers Group
E16 Aden Veterans' Association
E17 South Atlantic Medal Association
E18 National Gulf Veterans and Families Association
E19 British Nuclear Test Veterans Association
E20 Legacy of the Atomic Bomb Recognition for Atomic Test Survivors
E21 British West India Regiments Heritage Trust
E22 Gallantry Medallists' League
E23 King's Volunteer Medal Reserves Association
E24 National Association of Retired Police Officers
E25 Metropolitan Police Armed Forces Veterans Association
E26 International Police Association
E27 The Coastguard Association
E28 Naval Canteen Service and Expeditionary Force Institutes Association
E29 Stoll
E30 Not Forgotten Association
E31 Forces Employment Charity
E32 Armed Forces Veterans Breakfast Club
E33 Devon and Cornwall Armed Forced Veterans Clubs
E34 Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust Veterans Wellbeing Support Group
E35 Care After Combat
E36 HMP Risley Veterans
E37 HM Body of Yeoman Warders of the Tower of London
E38 King's Body Guard of the Yeomen of the Guard
E39 Trucial Oman Scouts Association
E40 15 Psychological Operations Group Black & White Association
E41 South African Legion - UK & Europe
E42 AJEX The Jewish Military Association
E43 Fellowship of the Services 2015
E44 Veterans - War Veterans of the Czech Republic
E45 Hong Kong Ex-Servicemen's Association (UK Branch)
E46 Bond van Wapenbroeders
E47 Memorable Order of Tinhats
E48 Circuit of Service Lodges
E49 Sight Scotland Veterans (formerly Scottish War Blinded)
Column F Widows and Childrens' Organisations
F1 War Widows' Association
F2 Royal Navy and Royal Marines Widows' Association
F3 Army Widows' Association
F4 RAF Widows's Association
F5 Scotty's Little Soldiers
F6 Civilians Killed by Enemy Action Memorial
F7 Children and Families of Far East Prisoners of War
Column R Civilian Organisations
R1 Transport for London
R2 Commonwealth War Graves Commission
R3 First Aid Nursing Yeomanry
R4 Royal National Lifeboat Institution
R5 Gallipoli Association
R6 Gallipoli & Dardanelles International
R7 Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
R8 Blue Cross
R9 PDSA
R10 Civil Defence Association
R11 St Nazaire Society
R12 British Evacuees Association
R13 Women's Royal Voluntary Services / Royal Voluntary Services
R14 The Royal NAAFI
R15 Toc H
R16 Royal Ulster Constabulary GC Association
R17 Metropolitan Special Constabulary
R18 Norfolk Constabulary Ceremonial Association
R19 Post Office Fellowship of Remembrance CIC
R20 St John Ambulance
R21 British Red Cross
R22 St Andrew's First Aid
R23 Munitions Workers Association
R24 Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes
R25 Royal Antediluvian order of Buffaloes Grand Lodge of England Limited
R26 Salvation Army
R27 British Resistance - Coleshill Auxiliary Research Team
R28 National Association of Round Tables of Great Britain and Ireland
R29 National Association of Tangent Clubs
R30 Fighting with Pride
R31 SSAFA, The Armed Forces Charity
R32 Help for Heroes
R33 Polish Contingent
R34 Canadian Veterans
R35 Royal Canadian Legion
R36 Foreign Legion Association of Great Britain
R37 ENSA Memorial
R38 MOD Civilian Support to Operations
R39 Showmen's Guild of Great Britain
R40 Association of Ex-Round Tablers' Clubs
R41 The National Association of Ladies Circles GB&I
Column Y Youth Organisations
Y1 Sea Cadets
Y2 Army Cadets
Y3 RAF Air Cadets
Y4 Combined Cadet Forces
Y5 Volunteer Police Cadets
Y6 Fire Cadets
Y7 St John Ambulance
Y8 The Scout Association
Y9 Girlguiding
Y10 Boys Brigade
Y11 Girls' Brigades Ministries
Y12 Church Lads' and Church Girls' Brigade
Y13 Jewish Lads' and Girls' Brigade
Y14 YMCA