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

    

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

    

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

    

Red Cross Celebrates the achievements and community contribution of Solano County Volunteers at the annual Volunteer Recognition and Awards event.

Welcome & Introduction; Debbie Yee Senior Disaster Program Manager

Mistress of Ceremonies, Diane Delaney, Regional Preparedness (Pillowcase) Program lead.

Opening Remarks and Year End Review; Trevor Riggen, Regional Chief Executive Officer

Photography; Samar M. Salma

 

You helped make our Tails of Independence Luncheon on May 2, 2017, a "pawsome" success.

 

Nearly 300 generous people joined Can Do Canines at the Golden Valley Country Club and contributions and pledges totaled almost $150,000. That's enough to train six new assistance dog teams! Thanks to all in attendance for their incredible support. We could not perform our life-changing work without you!

 

Thank you to our Freedom Partner Sunbelt and to our Independence Partner Henke Foods.

 

Photos courtesy of Sharolyn Hagen Photography.

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Nanjing Xi Lu, Shanghai - 1997

 

Thomas Struth

Born 1954 - Germany

 

Throughout the 1990s Struth photographed people in museums, cathedrals, and other shrines that function as tourist meccas for the secular religion of art. The subject of this work is half of a Japanese-French exchange of treasures. The Japanese sent their prized eighth-century bodhisattva from Nara to the Louvre, where it was encased in bulletproof glass and displayed in an incongruously ornate Second Empire gallery. Struth's photograph shows the French contribution, also behind glass, in the hall the Japanese designed to exhibit it.

Quintessentially Gallic, Delacroix's 1830 painting Liberty Leading the People is a hymn to the supreme rights of the individual, shot through with sex and high drama. The mise-en-scène, however, is an uncanny reflection of late twentieth-century spectacle culture - the movie theater, where the crowd passively absorbs images on a glowing screen. Yet, Struth is not simply demonstrating the collision between Delacroix's characters, who rush forward into history, and those who are immobilized in the face of it; he also discerns a respectful distance on the part of the Japanese toward their visitor, an appreciation of difference and cultural specificity that is a key to this artist's work.

 

As a student of the renowned photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in the 1970s, Thomas Struth absorbed their objective, methodical style of making pictures, often emphasizing the camera’s single-point perspective. To his varied subject matter—city streets, rainforests, family portraits—Struth brings an acute awareness of the act of observation. His use of relatively great depth of field allows him to lead the viewer’s eye to certain details and gloss over other ones.

Struth’s celebrated Museum Photographs series is composed of monumental images of museum visitors in various stages of observation, captivation, and even distraction. As part of this series, Art Institute of Chicago II depicts a woman pushing a stroller facing Gustave Caillebotte’s famous Paris Street; Rainy Day, while another woman reads the label. The women’s clothing harmonizes remarkably with the palette of the painting, and the gallery’s marble floor seems transformed into a continuation of the wet cobblestones rendered so believably by Caillebotte’s paintbrush. As historian Hans Belting concluded of this work, “One no longer knows what is inside the painting and what is in front of it… . We feel like rubbing our eyes when the space in front of the painting transforms itself into a picture that is not separated from the painting.”

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The Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art is a privately owned contemporary art gallery in Oslo in Norway. It was founded and opened to the public in 1993.[1] The collection's main focus is the American appropriation artists from the 1980s, but it is currently developing towards the international contemporary art scene, with artists like Jeff Koons, Richard Prince, Cindy Sherman, Matthew Barney, Tom Sachs, Doug Aitken, Olafur Eliasson, and Cai Guo-Qiang. The museum gives 6-7 temporary exhibitions each year. Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art collaborates with international institutions and produces exhibitions that travel worldwide.[2] In 2012 the museum moved to two new buildings designed by Renzo Piano in Tjuvholmen.

 

The museum opened in 1993, and was funded by two philanthropic foundations established by descendants of the Fearnley shipping family, the Thomas Fearnley Foundation and the Heddy and Nils Astrup Foundation.

 

The two foundations merged in 1995 to become the Thomas Fearnley, Heddy and Nils Astrup Foundation. The Thomas Fearnley Foundation was established by shipping magnate Thomas Fearnley (1880–1961) in 1939; he was the son of shipping magnate Thomas Fearnley (1841–1927) and grandson of romantic painter Thomas Fearnley. The Heddy and Nils Astrup Foundation was named for Nils Ebbessøn Astrup, who was a maternal grandson of Thomas Fearnley (1841–1927).

 

The museum created a stir in the international art world in 2002 when it purchased the American artist Jeff Koons's monumental sculpture in gilt porcelain of the pop star Michael Jackson with Bubbles, his favourite chimpanzee, for US $5.1 million.

 

The permanent collection consists of works of Norwegian and International Contemporary Art. The museum collection was originally based on a private collection that goes back thirty years and has significantly developed with the many changes in modern/contemporary art. There has been an interest in German Abstract Expressionism, English modern painting, and the Young British Artists. Presently the collection is orientated towards the young American art scene. It also encompasses works pertaining to the steadily increasing global art community. The main areas of curatorial expertise in the museum are art from the 1960s to the present, including American and European pop-art, post-modern appropriation art of the 1980s and international contemporary art.

 

Astrup Fearnley Museet is celebrating its thirtieth anniversary in 2023. To mark this significant milestone the museum presents an extensive exhibition featuring iconic works, hidden treasures and recent acquisitions to the Astrup Fearnley Collection, across the museums two buildings. The selected works represent various time periods and highlight a number of key directions that have come to define the identity of the collection and the museum more broadly. The collection includes significant works by Matthew Barney, Paul Chan, Trisha Donnelly, Félix González-Torres, Nan Goldin, Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Glenn Ligon, Bjarne Melgaard, Julie Mehretu and Cindy Sherman.

 

The museum building is designed by renowned Italian architect Renzo Piano, whose other notable museum buildings include Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.

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"The collection does not concentrate on specific eras, styles or groups, but reflects an in-depth attention to the work of a wide variety of artists. The museum maintains the vibrancy of the collection by regularly rehanging the exhibitions, placing the works in new constellations and contexts. The presentation on show focuses on a range of practices, often including several works by individual artists, in order to highlight the breadth and depth of the collection. Well-known artworks are juxtaposed with newly purchased pieces that have never been exhibited before. Not selected according to an overall theme, the different works generate a dialogue through their interplay with one other. This exhibition presents a multitude of topics and concepts that may inspire new directions of exploration. The artworks encourage us to examine complex issues and meditate on questions of aesthetics and politics, of identity, sexuality and violence, and of loss, faith and belonging."

 

www.afmuseet.no/en/

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Our earlier visit to Oslo in September, 2022:

 

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Aker Brygge and Tjuvholmen

 

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A bridge connects Aker Brygge to Tjuvholmen ('the thief islet'). Tjuvholmen is not only one of Oslo’s newest quarters, it is also a must-see for all design and architecture aficionados. The area is known for its rich, architectural diversity and the many art installations in between the houses. There are also a lot of galleries on Tjuvholmen, as well as the AstrupFearnley Museum, which situated at the outermost tip of the island, between its sculpture park and a small beach.

 

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

    

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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

    

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"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.

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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

    

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