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March 19, 2014. Boston, MA.
Kick Butts Day 2014. Representatives from the Department of Public Health (DPH) today joined more than 250 young people from across the Commonwealth at the State House for the national observance of Kick Butts Day, recognizing the contributions of teenagers in smoking cessation and prevention efforts.
The young people participating in today’s event are part of DPH’s youth movement, The 84, which represents the 84 percent of young people in Massachusetts who don’t smoke.
High school students involved in The 84 have been educating their communities and their local lawmakers about issues relating to tobacco and, working with local health boards and other programs; have promoted effective tobacco prevention strategies in their communities. Members of The 84 Movement have been vital in fighting the way tobacco industry markets its products to youth.
© 2014 Marilyn Humphries
Installation view, On Residence, Oslo Architecture Triennale 2016: After Belonging. Photograph by Istvan Virag.
March 19, 2014. Boston, MA.
Kick Butts Day 2014. Representatives from the Department of Public Health (DPH) today joined more than 250 young people from across the Commonwealth at the State House for the national observance of Kick Butts Day, recognizing the contributions of teenagers in smoking cessation and prevention efforts.
The young people participating in today’s event are part of DPH’s youth movement, The 84, which represents the 84 percent of young people in Massachusetts who don’t smoke.
High school students involved in The 84 have been educating their communities and their local lawmakers about issues relating to tobacco and, working with local health boards and other programs; have promoted effective tobacco prevention strategies in their communities. Members of The 84 Movement have been vital in fighting the way tobacco industry markets its products to youth.
© 2014 Marilyn Humphries
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Description: Take a 3D plane and subdivide it to small squares. Apply animated noise to it on the Z axis. Take a gradient of maximum chroma and medium lightness colors, similar to a rainbow, and map it to the elevation view of the noisy plane. Then render the animation, and you get something like this. This could be compared to a geographic elevation map, but with color gradients between lines. It could also be compared to a representation of earth layer evolution.
You need a little bit of Tezos–a newfangled eco-friendly cryptocurrency–to cover the tiny transaction fee to collect free art as part of this art swap. You can get Tezos via the Guarda online wallet and other places, and I recommend the Kukai or Temple web wallets. (If you create your wallet in Guarda, export the private key and import it to the web wallets to access it.)
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Outstanding volunteers of Army Reserve and National Guard Family Programswere recognized for their contributions at the 2011 Annual Family ProgramsVolunteer Appreciation Luncheon held at the Long Beach Yacht Club, Long Beach,Calif., June 3.
The event, hosted by the Association of the United States Army - Greater LosAngeles Chapter recognized more than 30 volunteers who had collectivelyserved more than 11,400 hours in the past 12 months.
Volunteers were recognized and presented certificates by commander of the79th Sustainment Support Command, Maj. Gen. William D. Frink, Jr., Maj. Gen.(Retired) Paul E. Mock, and Brig. Gen. (Retired) James P. Combs.
Guest speakers at the event included Miss America, Teresa Scanlan and MissCalifornia, Arianna Afsar.
Presentation of the Colors was conducted by the Fullerton Union High SchoolJunior ROTC Color Guard under the direction of Lt. Col. Mike Albertson.
Photo by Sgt. 1st Class C.L. Beal, 79th Sustainment Support Command Public Affairs
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
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
The 10th Mountain Division and Fort Drum said goodbye to two outstanding leaders Friday at The Commons. Brig. Gen. Paul Bontrager received his Legion of Merit award after 11 months as the 10th Mountain Division Acting Senior Commander. His wife Kelly received the Dr. Mary E. Walker award for her contributions to the 10th Mountain Division, Fort Drum, and surrounding community. Col. Mark O'Donnell and his wife Lauren said goodbye to the North Country for the second time in his career saying that Fort Drum always felt like home.
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Title: Modern urology in original contributions by American authors
Creator: Cabot, Hugh, 1872-
Publisher: Philadelphia, Lea [and] Febiger
Sponsor: MSN
Contributor: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Date: 1918
Language: eng
Description: Bibliographies at end of most of the chapters
v. 1. General considerations. Diseases of penis and urethra. Diseases of scrotum and testicle. Diseases of prostate and seminal vesicles. - v. 2. Diseases of the bladder. Diseases of the ureter. Diseases of the kidney
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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
The LEGO Foundation and UNICEF support conflict-affected children in Iraq through play
Baghdad, 16 December 2015 – UNICEF Iraq received a contribution from the LEGO Foundation that will help give around 50,000 children in Iraq a chance to play and learn. The organizations welcomed the contribution of 4,800 boxes containing LEGO play materials. The donation is part of the three-year global partnership between UNICEF and the LEGO Foundation signed in early 2015. Through the partnership, the two organizations promote quality early learning through play for children around the world. While play helps children address stress, it also performs a critical role in the development of the intellectual, emotional, social and creative skills needed to build the foundation for human development and lifelong learning.
Iraq has seen decades of conflict. Currently, nearly 3 million children have had their education disrupted, and nearly 1 million are internally displaced. Furthermore, over 100,000 Syrian children have taken refuge in Iraq.
Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Iraq (SRSG), Mr. Ján Kubiš, reaffirmed the United Nations’ commitment to children. “Many Iraqi children bear emotional scars from the violence around them, but it is those rendered homeless by conflict who suffer the heaviest consequences. Millions of children, in camps for displaced people and refugees as well as those in host communities have limited or no access to education or recreational activities. It is with their predicament in mind that UNAMI and UNICEF called on LEGO for assistance to extend children affected by the crisis in Iraq with a combination of study and play in the form of creative toys, which might be the first for many of them since they lost their homes and possessions. The donation from LEGO Foundation should be a reminder to Iraqi politicians of the responsibility they share for the future generations, who deserve to live a life of peace and normalcy.”
Generations of children in Iraq have grown up in the midst of conflict, and have witnessed unimaginable acts of extreme violence and have been displaced from their homes and communities. Some children have been displaced multiple times as conflict reaches their new homes. “The opportunity given by the LEGO Foundation should also be used to call for more support to humanitarian programmes, particularly child protection,” Kubiš added.
Representing UNAMI at the delivery ceremony in Baghdad, Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Iraq, Gyorgy Busztin appealed to the Iraqi politicians to think about the children of Iraq as they “are the hardest hit by violence and lack of stability. Their fate needs to be the responsibility of all decision makers. We want for them a happy future, away from violence, conflict and displacement in a country that provides equal rights to all its men, women and children. We want national reconciliation for Iraq that will give back to the children of Iraq what they were deprived of, play, learning and happiness, in other words a full childhood. The LEGO toys will teach them to build so that in the future they will be able to reconstruct their villages and towns ruined by terrorism. They will prove that building is superior to destruction” added DSRSG Busztin.
“The negative impact of this crisis on children cannot be over-emphasized,” said Peter Hawkins, UNICEF Representative in Iraq. “Continuing violence has cheated millions of children of their fundamental rights to safety, education and play. Many children have come into this world and grown up knowing only displacement and conflict. The donation from the LEGO Foundation is one positive step forward, allowing some of the most disadvantaged children to play and learn in a fun and safe environment and become the next generation to build a better future for Iraq.”
“Play is the most effective and inspiring way for children to acquire the skills needed to create new possibilities and meet the many challenges of the future. In the midst of violence and instability, playing and education can help to alleviate trauma for conflict-affected children,” said Mirjam Schöning, Global Head of Programmes and Partnerships at the LEGO Foundation. “Through play, children can address stress and develop physical, intellectual and social skills, as well as creativity. Together with UNICEF, we work to put a stake in the ground for children and their development through quality play-based learning.”
The LEGO play materials will be distributed to 538 schools, 46 community centres and 8 child-friendly spaces across Iraq, giving over 50,000 children access to learning activities. The LEGO Foundation and UNICEF will provide training to build the capacity of teachers, facilitators and community members who will then guide children through LEGO activities as part of the initiative.
Photos by UNAMI PIO.
CYBÈLE, ATALANTE ET HIPPOMÈNE DANSENT LE FLAMENCO
Voici ma contribution au défi Statues Gréco-Romaines organisé par Raquel Garcia Martinez et Bakerswood. Après plus de 250 ans à gouverner et veiller sur la ville de Madrid, Cybèle, Atalante et Hippomène avaient amplement mérité de se changer un peu les idées. Ils ont donc tous trois sauté de leur fontaine pour danser un peu de flamenco !
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CYBELE, ATLANTA & HIPPOMENES FLAMENCO DANCING
This is my contribution to the Greco-Roman Statues Challenge organized by Raquel Garcia Martinez and Bakerswood. After almost 250 years ruling and looking after the Spanish city of Madrid, Cybele and her two lions Atlanta and Hippomenes well deserved a rest. They jumped off their fountain to party dancing flamenco.
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CIBELES, ATLANTA E HIPÓMENES BAILANDO FLAMENCO
Esta es mi contribución al Desafío Estatuas Grecorromanas organizado por Raquel García Martínez y Bakerswood. Después de casi 250 años gobernando y cuidando de la ciudad de Madrid, Cibeles y sus dos leones Atlanta e Hipómenes se merecían un descanso. Saltaron de su fuente para pasarlo bien bailando un poco de flamenco.
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#graecoroman #grecoroman #griegoromano #grecoromain #statue #estatua #white #cakedesign #grsc #bakerswood #grecoromanstatueschallenge #uncupcakeladdition #cybèle #cibeles #cybel #madrid #cupcake
At St. John's Archcathedral in Warsaw, Her Serene Highness Princess Angelika received Saint Stanislaw’s Order established by Polish King Stanisław August Poniatowski for her contribution to culture and social activities.
Originally built in the 14th century, St. John’s is steeped in history. The last king of Poland, Stanisław August Poniatowski, was crowned and eventually buried here, and he also declared the Constitution of May 3 inside the building.
In 1992, Nicole founded XEODesign, the first player experience design consultancy. Nicole’s design contributions and research on emotion and the fun of games have enhanced over 40 million player experiences, involving several well known franchises for casual gamers. Her clients include Sony, Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, and Sega. In recognition of her efforts, Gamasutra lists her as one of the Top 20 women working in the video game industry.
The Lotus sculptures are a continuation of my work for the Flameworks contribution to TRAIL on the seafront - "Muddy Waters, a large ceramic and mixed-media installation by 4 professional ceramists and sculptors: Lorraine Gilroy, Verity Newman, Jan O’Highway and Christina Peters, all members of Flameworks in Plymouth.
“MUDDY WATERS is based on the symbolically transformative concept of the Lotus rising out of the mud.
As sculptors and makers we are all concerned to find ways of making safe the highly poisonous metallic waste materials inevitably produced by working with ceramic glazes. For Muddy Waters we have taken a quantity of this toxic clay sludge from Flameworks, individually formed it into a variety of flower shapes, and then fired these to over 1000C. The heat recombines metal and clay thereby recreating an inert ceramic ‘stone’ material. By combining these forms with discarded plastic and other unloved material we are simultaneously keeping the waste out of the landfill and creating a thriving, dynamic composition of flowers, stems, abstract and open forms – a colourful art work to provoke comment and discussion.”
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
Two-time Man Booker Prize Winner Hilary Mantel was awarded the society's Burke Medal for her contribution to the arts on the 8th of October
Hon Mr Phil Twyford, Minister for Disarmament and Arms Control of New Zealand, and H.E. Ms Odette Melano, Deputy Director-General of the OPCW
Bilateral discussions focus on the future ChemTech Centre’s role in enhancing the Chemical Weapons Convention’s verification regime and preventing the re-emergence of chemical weapons; NZD 180,000 contribution to support OPCW activities
Six different boxes, each one for separate contributions: Zedakah, Tiberias, Jerusalem, Hebron, Safed
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Title: Contribution to the topographical anatomy of the thorax in the fÃ
Âtus at term and the new-born child
Creator: Huntington, George S. (George Sumner), 1861-1927
Publisher: [New York? : s.n.]
Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons, U.S. National Library of Medicine
Contributor: U.S. National Library of Medicine
Date: 1897
Language: eng
Description: "Reprinted from the Medical report of the Society of the Lying-in Hospital of the City of New York, 1897."
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Title: Modern urology in original contributions by American authors
Creator: Cabot, Hugh, 1872-
Publisher: Philadelphia, Lea [and] Febiger
Sponsor: MSN
Contributor: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Date: 1918
Language: eng
Description: Bibliographies at end of most of the chapters
v. 1. General considerations. Diseases of penis and urethra. Diseases of scrotum and testicle. Diseases of prostate and seminal vesicles. - v. 2. Diseases of the bladder. Diseases of the ureter. Diseases of the kidney
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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
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
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
Belgian Air Component F-16A taking off from 20 at RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire, as part of a four-ship of F-16s from the Belgian Air Component contribution to Exercise Cobra Warrior 2023.
March 19, 2014. Boston, MA.
Kick Butts Day 2014. Representatives from the Department of Public Health (DPH) today joined more than 250 young people from across the Commonwealth at the State House for the national observance of Kick Butts Day, recognizing the contributions of teenagers in smoking cessation and prevention efforts.
The young people participating in today’s event are part of DPH’s youth movement, The 84, which represents the 84 percent of young people in Massachusetts who don’t smoke.
High school students involved in The 84 have been educating their communities and their local lawmakers about issues relating to tobacco and, working with local health boards and other programs; have promoted effective tobacco prevention strategies in their communities. Members of The 84 Movement have been vital in fighting the way tobacco industry markets its products to youth.
© 2014 Marilyn Humphries
As a contribution to the legacy of the European Year of Cultural Heritage, the presidency of Bulgaria, the Bulgarian Ministry of Culture and Europeana wanted to highlight the relevance of digital cultural heritage to the aims of the European Union during the next multiannual framework. During this two day event in Varna on May 28-29, 62 participants from 21 countries explored this together with experts and representatives of ministries of culture across Europe and draft a vision that expresses this contribution in concrete terms. Photo by Sebastiaan ter Burg, CC BY 2.0
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
March 19, 2014. Boston, MA.
Kick Butts Day 2014. Representatives from the Department of Public Health (DPH) today joined more than 250 young people from across the Commonwealth at the State House for the national observance of Kick Butts Day, recognizing the contributions of teenagers in smoking cessation and prevention efforts.
The young people participating in today’s event are part of DPH’s youth movement, The 84, which represents the 84 percent of young people in Massachusetts who don’t smoke.
High school students involved in The 84 have been educating their communities and their local lawmakers about issues relating to tobacco and, working with local health boards and other programs; have promoted effective tobacco prevention strategies in their communities. Members of The 84 Movement have been vital in fighting the way tobacco industry markets its products to youth.
© 2014 Marilyn Humphries
On the occasion of birth Anniversary of Late Rosario Rodrigues, father of Khell-tiatr also Late Antonio Moraes, Pioneer of Khell-tiatr, Tiatr Academy of Goa TAG presented Lifetime Contribution to Khell, Khell-Tiatr awards to 3 khell-godde viz. Luis Mariano Fernandes alias Lus Marian, Antonio Remedios Fernandes alias Pandda Remeth and Francisco Cardozo alias F Cardoz at the hands of Fisheries Minister Filip Neri Rodrigues, Dy. Director DAC Ashok Parab, TAG MS Cezar D'Mello, widow of Antonio Moraes - Antonette Moares and widow of Rosario Rodrigues - Carmin Rodrigues
24.10.2019, Panaji
Band with Nolvert Cotta, John de Madel etc
Brussels , Belgium , 05 June 2013 - Green Week 2013 - The contribution of the LIFE programme to air quality in the EU : past , present & future © EU - Justin Toland
A session at this year's Green Week in Brussels has been dedicated to highlighting "The contribution of the LIFE programme to air quality in the EU: past, present and future". The session has been moderated by Alexis Tsalas of the LIFE-Environment & Eco-Innovation Unit, with presentations by Dr Georgia Valaoras, Regional Coordinator for South-East Europe, Astrale GEIE and Stijn Janssen, Environmental Modeling, VITO NV.
The session presented the findings and highlights of a 2012 study commissioned by the European Commission, "The contribution of LIFE projects to the implementation and development of EU air quality policy and legislation". The actions and outcomes of a LIFE air quality project were hightlighted by a second presentaioin. The final presentation - "The future of LIFE and air quality: the new LIFE Regulation 2014-2020" - has given a brief outline of the future LIFE programme, with emphasis on integrated projects and how these will bring about a multiplier effect to enable local and regional problems to be addressed in a more comprehensive and effective way.
Here: Presentation of ATMOSYS project (LIFE09 ENV/BE/000409)
Monument to Nikola Tesla is a monument to the Serbian scientist Nikola Tesla, located in the capital of Azerbaijan, Baku, in a park at the crossing of the Azadlig Avenue and the Suleiman Rahimov Street. The monument authors are the People's Artist of Azerbaijan, the sculptor Omar Eldarov and the architect Sanan Salamzade. The monument is cast from bronze. Its height together with the pedestal is 3.3 meters. The monument is set against the background of a decorative panel depicting one of Teslas main inventions - an alternator.
The opening ceremony of the monument took place on 8 February 2013. The ceremony was attended by the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, the First Lady of Azerbaijan, Mehriban Aliyeva, the President of Serbia, Tomislav Nikolić, and the First Lady of Serbia, Dragica Nikolić. At the opening ceremony, the presidents delivered speeches.
Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American engineer, futurist, and inventor. He is known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.
Born and raised in the Austrian Empire, Tesla first studied engineering and physics in the 1870s without receiving a degree. He then gained practical experience in the early 1880s working in telephony and at Continental Edison in the new electric power industry. In 1884 he immigrated to the United States, where he became a naturalized citizen. He worked for a short time at the Edison Machine Works in New York City before he struck out on his own. With the help of partners to finance and market his ideas, Tesla set up laboratories and companies in New York to develop a range of electrical and mechanical devices. His AC induction motor and related polyphase AC patents, licensed by Westinghouse Electric in 1888, earned him a considerable amount of money and became the cornerstone of the polyphase system which that company eventually marketed.
Attempting to develop inventions he could patent and market, Tesla conducted a range of experiments with mechanical oscillators/generators, electrical discharge tubes, and early X-ray imaging. He also built a wirelessly controlled boat, one of the first ever exhibited. Tesla became well known as an inventor and demonstrated his achievements to celebrities and wealthy patrons at his lab, and was noted for his showmanship at public lectures. Throughout the 1890s, Tesla pursued his ideas for wireless lighting and worldwide wireless electric power distribution in his high-voltage, high-frequency power experiments in New York and Colorado Springs. In 1893, he made pronouncements on the possibility of wireless communication with his devices. Tesla tried to put these ideas to practical use in his unfinished Wardenclyffe Tower project, an intercontinental wireless communication and power transmitter, but ran out of funding before he could complete it.
After Wardenclyffe, Tesla experimented with a series of inventions in the 1910s and 1920s with varying degrees of success. Having spent most of his money, Tesla lived in a series of New York hotels, leaving behind unpaid bills. He died in New York City in January 1943. Tesla's work fell into relative obscurity following his death, until 1960, when the General Conference on Weights and Measures named the International System of Units (SI) measurement of magnetic flux density the tesla in his honor. There has been a resurgence in popular interest in Tesla since the 1990s.
Omar Hasan oglu Eldarov (Azerbaijani: Ömər Həsən oğlu Eldarov) is an Azerbaijani monumentalist sculptor, Honoured Art Worker of Azerbaijan (1962), People's Artist of Azerbaijan (1982), full member of the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan (2001), full member of the Russian Academy of Arts (1988), president of Azerbaijan State Academy of Fine Arts (2001), and academician.
Creativity of Soviet period
Omar Eldarov was born on December 21, 1927, in Derbent, Dagestan ASSR.
From 1942 to 1945 studied at Azerbaijan State Art School named after Azim Azimzade. In 1951, graduated from the Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after I.Y.Repin. Was the student of such great masters as A.T.Matveyev, M.A.Kerzin, V.B.Pinchuk.
In 1980, he was awarded the USSR State Prize for monument-ensemble to Sadriddin Ayni in Dushanbe (1979). Omar Eldarov is the holder of the "Order of the Badge of Honour". He was awarded the State Prize of the Azerbaijan SSR for the monument to P.A.Dzhaparidze in Baku (1980). The most famous works of the master are-monument to Fizuli in Baku (1962), with the sculptor Tokay Mammadov), for which he was awarded silver medal of the USSR Academy of Arts; monument to Natavan (1960), Baku, with architects E.Ismayilov and F.Leontyev); Monument to Sattar Bahlulzade (1975); conductor Niyazi's portrait (1984); "Head of laughing worker" (1984); "Mahatma Gandhi" (1987); "Avicenna" (1980); Rabindranath Tagore (1987); portraits of Aysel (1988), Ayten (1988).
Creativity (1991-up till now)
The author of Sattar Bahlulzade's portrait, Muslim Mogomayev's bust, monument to Huseyn Javid (1993), monument to Mammed Amin Rasulzade (1995), Azim Azimzade (2002), Rashid Behbudov's bas-relief (2002), Nizami Ganjavi's bust in Cheboksary (2004), gravestones of Zarifa Aliyeva, Haydar Aliyev, Sikh-Ali Gurbanov, Tofig Guliyev in the Alley of Honorable Burial in Baku, gravestone and bas-relief of Uzeyir Hajibeyov in Vienna (2005), Niyazi's bas-relief (2006), monument to Haydar Aliyev in Nakhchivan (2006), monument to İhsan Doğramacı in Ankara (2003), memorial plaque of Tofig Guliyev (2006), memorial plaques of Haydar Aliyev and academician Zarifa Aliyeva (2008).
Omar Eldarov was awarded "Gold medal" for the contribution and development of Azerbaijani visual arts during solemn ceremonies dedicated to 65th anniversary of the Azerbaijan Artists Union. He was awarded commemorative medal "For merits for Academy in honor of 250th anniversary", in the honor of 250th anniversary of the Russian Academy of Arts [2007).
From 1995 to 2000, Omar Eldarov was the deputy of parliament- the National Assembly of Azerbaijan. Married, has three children: daughters-Lala Eldarova (art critic), the Institute of Arts and Architecture of the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan, Kamilla Eldarova (painter), son-Muslim Eldarov (sculptor, publisher of the State book of Azerbaijan-2002, magazine "Caspian").
Baku is the capital of Azerbaijan Republic, which was also the capital of Shirvan (during the reigns of Akhsitan I and Khalilullah I), Baku Khanate, Azerbaijan Democratic Republic and Azerbaijan SSR and the administrative center of Russian Baku governorate. Baku is derived from the old Persian Bagavan, which translates to "City of God". A folk etymology explains the name Baku as derived from the Persian Bādkube (بادکوبه ), meaning "city where the wind blows", due to frequent winds blowing in Baku. However, the word Bādkube was invented only in the 16th or 17th century, whereas Baku was founded at least before the 5th century AD.
Starting from the 13th century AD the name of Baku begins to appear in mediaeval European Sources. Spelling of the name varies from Vahcüh (Pietro Della Valle), to Bakhow, Baca, Bakuie and Backu.
On the coins minted by Shirvanshahs name appears as Bakuya.
Various different hypotheses have been proposed to explain the etymology of the word Baku. According to L.G.Lopatinski[3] and Ali Huseynzade "Baku" is derived from Turkic word for "hill". K.P. Patkanov, a specialist in Caucasian history, also explains the name as "hill" but in Lak language.
Around 1000 years ago, the territory of modern Baku and Absheron was savanna with rich flora and fauna. Traces of human settlement go back to the Stone Age. From the Bronze Age there have been rock carvings discovered near Bayil, and a bronze figure of a small fish discovered in the territory of the Old City. This have led some to suggest the existence of a Bronze Age settlement within the city's territory. Near Nardaran in a place called Umid Gaya, a prehistoric observatory was discovered, where on the rock the images of sun and various constellations are carved together with a primitive astronomic table. Further archeological excavations revealed various prehistoric settlements, native temples, statues and other artifacts within the territory of the modern city and around it.
In the 1st century, Romans organized two Caucasian campaigns and reached Baku. Near Baku, in Gobustan, Roman inscriptions dating from 84–96 AD were discovered. The remnant of this period is the village of Ramana in the Sabunchu district of Baku.
In the Life of the Apostle Bartholomew, Baku is identified as Armenian albanus. Some historians assume that during the existence of Caucasian Albania Baku was called Albanopolis. Local church traditions record the belief that Bartholomew's martyrdom occurred at the bottom of the Maiden Tower within the Old City, where according to historical data, a Christian church was built on the site of the pagan temple of Arta.
A record from the 5th-century historian Priscus of Panium was the first to mention the famous Bakuvian fires (ex petra maritima flamma ardet – from the maritime stone flame emerges). Owing to these eternal fires Baku became a major center of ancient Zoroastrianism. Sassanid shah Ardashir I gave orders "to keep an inextinguishable fire of the god Ormazd" in the city temples.
There is little or no information regarding Baku in medieval sources until the 10th century. The earliest numismatic evidence found in the city is an Abbasid coin dating from the 8th century AD. At that time Baku was a domain of the Arab Caliphate and later of Shirvanshahs. During this period, they frequently came under assault of the Khazars and (starting from the 10th century) the Rus. Shirvanshah Akhsitan I built a navy in Baku and successfully repelled another Rus assault in 1170. After a devastating earthquake struck Shamakhy, the capital of Shirvan, Shirvanshah's court moved to Baku in 1191. A mint was put into operation.
Between the 12th and 14th centuries, a massive fortification was undertaken in the city and around it. The Maiden Tower, castles of Ramana, Nardaran, Shagan and Mardakan, and also famous Sabayel castle on the island of the Baku bay was built during this period. The city walls were also rebuilt and strengthened.
The biggest problem of Baku during this time was the transgression of the Caspian Sea. The rising levels of the water from time to time engulfed much of the city and the famous castle of Sabayel went completely into the sea in the 14th century. These led to several legends about submerged cities such as Shahriyunan ("Greek city").
Hulagu Khan occupied Baku under the domain of the Shirvan state during the third Mongol campaign in Azerbaijan (1231–1239) and it became a winter residence for Ilkhanids. In the 14th century, the city prospered under Muhammad Oljeitu who relieved it from some of the heavy taxes. Bakuvian poet Nasir Bakui wrote a panegyric to Oljeitu thus creating the first piece of poetry in Azerbaijani language.
Marco Polo had written of Baku oil exports to Near Eastern countries. The city also traded with the Golden Horde, the Moscow Princedom, and European countries.
In 1501, Safavid shah Ismail I laid siege to Baku. The besieged inhabitants resisted, relying for defense on their fortifications. Due to the resistance, Ismail ordered part of the fortification's wall to be undermined. The fortress's defense was destroyed and many inhabitants were slaughtered. In 1538, the Safavid Shah Tahmasp I put an end to the Shirvanshahs' reign and in 1540, Baku was recaptured by Safavid troops again.
Between 1568 and 1574 there is a record of six English missions to Baku. English men named Thomas Bannister and Jeffrey Duckett described Baku in their correspondence. They wrote that the "...town is a strange thing to behold, for there issueth out of the ground a marvelous quantity of oil, which serveth all the country to burn in their houses. This oil is black and is called nefte. There is also by the town of Baku, another kind of oil which is white and very precious, and it is called petroleum." The first oil well outside of Baku was drilled in 1594 by a craftsman named A. Mamednur oglu. This man finished the construction of a high-efficiency oil well in the Balakhany settlement. This area was historically outside city territory.
In 1636, German diplomat and traveler Adam Olearius described Baku's 30 oil fields, noting that there was a great quantity of brown oil.[citation needed] In 1647, famous Turkish traveler Evliya Çelebi visited Baku. In April 1660, Cossacks under Stepan Razin attacked the Baku coast and plundered the village of Mashtaga. In 1683, Baku was visited by the ambassador of the Kingdom of Sweden, Engelbert Kaempfer. In the following year, Baku was temporarily recaptured by the Ottoman Empire.
Baku is noted for being a focal point for traders from all across the world during the Early modern period, commerce was active and the area was prosperous. Notably, traders from the Indian subcontinent established themselves in the region. These Indian traders built the Ateshgah of Baku during 17th–18th centuries; the temple was used as a Hindu, Sikh, and Parsi place of worship.
The fall of the Safavid dynasty in 1722 caused widespread chaos.[citation needed] Baku was invaded by the Russian and Ottoman empires.
On 26 June 1723, after a long siege, Baku surrendered to the Russians and the Safavids were forced to cede the city alongside many other of their Caucasian territories. In accordance with Peter the Great's decree, the soldiers of two regiments (2,382 people) were left in the Baku garrison under the command of Prince Baryatyanski, the commandant of the city. Peter the Great, while equipping a new military expedition commanded by General Mikhail Matyushkin, charged him with sending more oil from Baku to St. Petersburg, "which is a basis of an eternal and sacred flame"—Old Russian: "коя является основой вечного и священного пламени". However, due to Peter's death, this order was not carried out.
In 1733, Baku was visited by physician Ioann Lerkh, an employee of the Russian embassy and, like many others before him, described the city oil fields. By 1730, the situation had deteriorated for the Russians as Nadir Shah's successes in Shirvan forced the Russians to make an agreement near Ganja on 10 March 1735, ceding the city and all other conquered territories in the Caucasus back to Persia.
After the disintegration of the Safavid Empire and after the death of Nader Shah, the semi-independent principality of Baku Khanate was formed in 1747 following the power vacuum which had been created. It was ruled by Mirza Muhammed Khan and soon became a dependency of the much stronger Quba Khanate. The population of Baku was small (approximately 5,000), and the economy was ruined as a result of constant warfare, banditry, and inflation. The khans benefited, however, from the sea trade with the rest of Iran. Feudal infighting in the 1790s resulted in the dominance of an anti-Russian faction in the city resulting in the Russian-leaning brother of the Khan being exiled to Quba.
By the end of the 18th century, Tsarist Russia now began a more firm policy with the intent to conquer all of the Caucasus at the expense of Persia and Ottoman Turkey. In the spring of 1796, by Yekaterina II's order, General Valerian Zubov's troops started a large campaign against Qajar Persia following the sack of Tbilisi and Persia's aim to restore its suzerainty over Georgia and Dagestan. Zubov had sent 13,000 men to capture Baku, and it was overrun subsequently without any resistance. On 13 June 1796, a Russian flotilla entered Baku Bay, and a garrison of Russian troops was placed inside the city. Later, however, Pavel I ordered the cessation of the campaign and the withdrawal of Russian forces following the death of his predecessor, Yekatarina II. In March 1797, the tsarist troops left Baku.
Prince Pavel Tsitsianov was shot to death when he tried to make Baku surrender during the Russo-Persian War (1804–1813).
Coat of arms of Baku Governorate
Tsar Alexander I set out to conquer Baku once again during the Russo-Persian War (1804-1813) during which Pavel Tsitsianov tried to capture Baku in January 1806. But aide-de-camp and cousin of Huseyngulu Khan suddenly shot Tsitsianov to death during the presentation of the city's keys to him. Left without a commander, the Russian Army left Baku and the occupation of Baku Khanate was delayed for a year. Baku was captured on October of the same year and eventually absorbed into the Russian Empire after formal ceding of the city amongst other integral territories in the North Caucasus and South Caucasus by Persia in the Treaty of Gulistan, in 1813. However, it was not until the aftermath of the Russo-Persian War (1826-1828) and the Treaty of Turkmenchay that Baku came under nominal Russian rule, as the city was retaken by Persia during the war.
When Baku was occupied by the Russian troops during the war of 1804–1813, nearly the entire population of some 8,000 people was ethnic Tat.
In 1809, at the time of the Russian conquest, the Muslim population grew to become 95% of the city's population.
On 10 July 1840, the Russian Duma approved "The Principles of Ruling of the Transcaucasian Region", and Baku uyezd was turned into an administrative region of the Russian Empire.
Fortstadt, a new suburb, grew from the dispersed buildings scattered within the city's fortifications. Medieval seaside fortifications were demolished in 1861 to allow for the creation of the port and a customs house in the quay.
Baku became a center of the eponymous province after the devastating earthquake of 1859 in Shamakha. The population of Baku Governorate began to increase steadily. It is recorded that the number of police stations increased. The first Baku stock exchange had ten brokers, all of Russian nationality.
In 1823, the world's first paraffin factory was built in the city, and in 1846, the world's first oil well was drilled in Bibi-Heybat. Javad Melikov from Baku had built the first kerosene factory in 1863. In 1873, the Russian government offered competition for free land, and Baku caught the eye of the Nobel brothers. In 1882, Ludvig Nobel invited technical staff to Baku from Finland, Sweden, Norway, and Germany and founded a colony that he called Villa Petrolea. This colony was located in the "Black City". Bullock-cart drivers used wineskins and flasks to transport oil until the 1870s. In 1883, a Rothschild's plenipotentiary arrived from Paris and created the "Caspian-Black Sea Joint-Stock Company". Famous Baku oil magnates of the era included Musa Nagiyev, Murtuza Mukhtarov, Shamsi Asadullayev, Seid Mirbabayev, and many others.
The companies owned by Musa Nagiyev and Shamsi Asadullayev were the largest of Baku's oil producers. Established respectively in 1887 and 1893, they produced between 7 million and 12 million poods (110 to 200 Gg) of oil annually. The companies owned oil fields, refineries, and tankers. By the beginning of the next century, more than a hundred oil firms operated in Baku.
The oil boom of the late 19th and early 20th centuries contributed to massive growth of Baku. Between 1856 and 1910 Baku's population grew at a faster rate than that of London, Paris or New York.
The second half of the 19th century was notable for its advancement in communication. In 1868, the first telegraph line to Tiflis was established, and in 1879, an under-sea telegraph line connected Baku with Krasnovodsk. In the same year, the Baku-Sabunchi-Surakhany was in operation. The tracks were 520 versts (555 kilometres) from Tiflis and was completed in a relatively short time on 8 May 1883. The first telephone line was in operation in 1886. In 1899, the first horse tramway appeared.
In 1870, a Lutheran-Evangelical community was established in Baku. However, in 1937, the clerics as well as the representatives of other religious communities were banished or shot. The Lutheran community was not revived until 1994, after the fall of the Soviet Union.
In the 1870s, the number of administrative and public institutions had grown, among them a provincial court and arbitration. In the first years of the 20th century, a case considered in the district court won great popularity and lawyers from Petersburg, Moscow, Tiflis, and Kiev became involved because of fabulous fees often received there.[clarification needed] The loudest litigations passed with the participation of a certain Karabek, who knew by heart the extensive code of laws of the Russian Empire and remembered all decrees of the Sacred Synod with exact reference numbers and dates.
In the beginning of October 1883, tsar Alexander III with his wife and two sons, accompanied by a huge retinue, arrived to Baku from Tiflis. The railway station had been prepared for the solemn ceremony. The city authorized Haji Zeynalabdin Taghiyev to welcome Alexander. The visitors examined the oil storage of Nobel brothers, the pump station, and three powerful oil wells of Shamsi Asadullayev. Beginning from the 1890s, Baku provided 95% of the oil production in the Russian Empire and approximately half of world oil production. Within ten years, the city had become the foremost producer of oil overtaking the United States.
In 1914–1917, Baku produced 7 million tons of oil each year, totaling 28,683,000 tons of oil , which constituted 15% of world production at the time. Germany did not trust Turkey in oil matters and transferred General Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein from the Middle Eastern front with his troops to Georgia in order to enter Baku, through Ukraine, the Black Sea and Georgia. Great Britain, in February 1918, urgently sent General Lionel Dunsterville with troops to Baku through Anzali to block the German troops. Having studied the Caucasus from the strategic point of view, Dunsterville concluded: "Those who capture Baku, will control the sea. That's why it was necessary for us to invade this city." On 23 August 1918, Lenin in his telegram to Tashkent wrote: "Germans agree to attack Baku provided that we would kick the British out of Baku".
Having been defeated in World War I, Turkey had to withdraw its forces from the borders of Azerbaijan in the middle of November 1918. Led by General William Thomson, British troops of 5,000 soldiers arrived in Baku on 17 November, and martial law was implemented on the capital of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic until "the civil power would be strong enough to release the forces from the responsibility to maintain the public order".
In the same year, Thompson was faced with an enormous challenge to recreate confidence in the economy. His fundamental requirement was to recreate a sound and reliable banking system. He wrote, however: "the political situation in Baku does not permit the opening of a British Bank because this would have increased suspicion and jealousy as to British intentions".
In the spring of 1918, Armenian interests in Baku were protected by the Baku Soviet of People's Commissars, who became known as the 26 Baku Commissars.
In February 1920, the 1st Congress of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan legally took place in Baku and made a decision about preparation of the armed revolt. On 27 April of the same year, units of the Russian 11th Red Army crossed the border of Azerbaijan and began to march towards Baku. Soviet Russia presented the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic with an ultimatum to surrender, and the troops entered Baku the next day, accompanied by Grigory Ordzhonikidze and Sergey Kirov of the Bolshevik Kavbiuro. The city became a capital of the Azerbaijan SSR and underwent many major changes. As a result, Baku played a great role in many branches of the Soviet life. Since about 1921, the city was headed by the Baku City Executive Committee, commonly known in Russian as Bakgorispolkom. Together with the Baku Party Committee (known as the Baksovet), it developed the economic significance of the Caspian metropolis. From 1922 to 1930, Baku was the venue for one of the major Trade fairs of the Soviet Union, serving as a commercial bridgehead to Iran and the Middle East.
On 8 February 1924, the first tram line and two years later the electric railway Baku-Surakhany—the first in the USSR—started to operate.
While being in Baku in May 1925 Russian poet Sergei Yesenin wrote a verse "Farewell to Baku":
Farewell to Baku! I'll see you no more
A sorrow and fright are now in the soul
And a heart under the hand is more painful and closer
And I feel the simple word "friend" more distinctly.
However Yesenin returned to the city on 28 July of the same year.
Maxim Gorkiy wrote after visiting Baku: "The oil fields remained in my memory as a perfect picture of the grave hell. This picture suppressed all the fantastic ideas of depressed mind, I was aware of." Well-known—at that time—industrialist V. Rogozin noted, in relation with the Baku oil fields, that everything there was done "without counting and calculating". In 1940, 22.2 million tons of oil were extracted in Baku which comprised nearly 72% of all the oil extracted in the entire USSR.
In 1941, the trolley bus line started to operate in the city, meanwhile the first buses appeared in Baku in 1928.
The US Ambassador to France, W. Bullitt, dispatched a telegram to Washington concerning "the possibilities of bombing and demolition of Baku" which were being discussed in Paris at the time. Charles de Gaulle was extremely critical of the plan according to both his wartime and postwar statements. Such ideas, he believed, were made by some "crazy heads that were thinking more of how to destroy Baku than of resisting Berlin". In his report submitted on 22 February 1940, to French Prime Minister Édouard Daladier, General Maurice Gamelin believed the Soviets would fall into crisis if those resources were lost. However, during the Soviet-German War, ten defense zones were built around the city to prevent possible German invasion, planned within the Operation Edelweiss.
Even a cake for Hitler was adorned by a map of the Caspian Sea with the letters B-A-K-U spelled out in chocolate cream. After eating the cake, Hitler said: "Unless we get Baku oil, the war is lost".
The first offshore oil platform in the world, originally called "The Black Rocks", was built in 1947 within the city's metropolitan area. In 1960, the first Caucasus house-building plant was built in Baku, and on 25 December 1975, the only plant producing air-conditioners in the Soviet Union was turned over for operation.
In 1964–1968, the level of oil extraction rose to the stable level and comprised about 21 million tons per year. By the 1970s, Azerbaijan became one of the largest producers of grapes, and a champagne factory was subsequently constructed in Baku. In 1981, a record quantity of 15 billion m³ of gas was extracted in Baku.
In 1990, Shaumyan rayon of Baku was renamed to Khatai and Ordzhonikidze rayon to Narimanov. In 1991, following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Bakgorispolkom as a result, the first independent city mayor Rafael Allahverdiyev was appointed. On 29 April 1992, the names of some more city rayons were changed:
With the initiatives for saving the city in the 2000s, Baku embarked on a process of restructuring on a scale unseen in its history. Thousands of buildings from Soviet Period were demolished to make way for a green belt on its shores; parks and gardens were built on the land claimed by filling up the beaches of the Baku Bay. Improvements were made in the general cleaning, maintenance, garbage collection fields and these services are now at Western European standards. The city is growing dynamically and developing at full speed on an east-west axis along the shores of the Caspian Sea.
Most Soviet era street names have been replaced after the collapse of the Soviet Union. More than 225 streets have been renamed since 1988; however, some people still use the old names. Namely, the first street ever to be built outside the Inner City, originally called Nikolayevskaya after Nicolas I, was renamed to Parlaman Kuchesi, because the Parliament of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic held its meeting in a building located at that street, then during soviet era it became Kommunisticheskaya Ulitsa and now is called İstiqlaliyyet Kuchesi (Azeri: "independence").
My contribution to the Queen's Platinum Jubilee: Flight Lieutenant Rif Raff and his
"Spitsfire."
Just a fun little model to assemble. A 7 inch wingspan. The model had a total of 30 parts, so I spent more time on the painting than I did on the assembly. Used the paints that I already had, so the colors are not exact. Did have the correct color for the bottom of the plane, left over from when I build a Hawker Hurricane.
Remembrance Sunday, 10 November 2024
Chelsea Pensioners, residents of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, March past the Cenotaph as part of the parade of veterans.
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
Hon Mr Phil Twyford, Minister for Disarmament and Arms Control of New Zealand, and H.E. Ms Odette Melano, Deputy Director-General of the OPCW
Bilateral discussions focus on the future ChemTech Centre’s role in enhancing the Chemical Weapons Convention’s verification regime and preventing the re-emergence of chemical weapons; NZD 180,000 contribution to support OPCW activities
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