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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
On the occasion of birth Anniversary of Late Rosario Rodrigues, father of Khell-tiatr also Late Antonio Moraes, Pioneer of Khell-tiatr, Tiatr Academy of Goa TAG presented Lifetime Contribution to Khell, Khell-Tiatr awards to 3 khell-godde viz. Luis Mariano Fernandes alias Lus Marian, Antonio Remedios Fernandes alias Pandda Remeth and Francisco Cardozo alias F Cardoz at the hands of Fisheries Minister Filip Neri Rodrigues, Dy. Director DAC Ashok Parab, TAG MS Cezar D'Mello, widow of Antonio Moraes - Antonette Moares and widow of Rosario Rodrigues - Carmin Rodrigues
24.10.2019, Panaji
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
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia
Philadelphia, commonly referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the second-most populous city in the Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic regions after New York City. Philadelphia is known for its extensive contributions to United States history, especially the American Revolution, and served as the nation's capital until 1800. It maintains contemporary influence in business and industry, culture, sports, and music. Philadelphia is the nation's sixth-most populous city with a population of 1,603,797 as of the 2020 census and is the urban core of the larger Delaware Valley (or Philadelphia metropolitan area), the nation's seventh-largest and one of the world's largest metropolitan regions consisting of 6.245 million residents in the metropolitan statistical area and 7.366 million residents in its combined statistical area.
Philadelphia was founded in 1682 by William Penn, an English Quaker and advocate of religious freedom. The city served as the capital of the Pennsylvania Colony during the British colonial era and went on to play a historic and vital role as the central meeting place for the nation's founding fathers whose plans and actions in Philadelphia ultimately inspired the American Revolution and the nation's independence following the Revolutionary War. Philadelphia hosted the First Continental Congress in 1774, preserved the Liberty Bell, and hosted the Second Continental Congress during which the founders signed the Declaration of Independence, which historian Joseph Ellis has described as "the most potent and consequential words in American history". Once the Revolutionary War commenced, the Battle of Germantown and the siege of Fort Mifflin were fought within Philadelphia's city limits. The U.S. Constitution was later ratified in Philadelphia at the Philadelphia Convention of 1787. Philadelphia remained the nation's largest city until 1790, when it was surpassed by New York City, and it served as the nation's first capital from May 10, 1775, until December 12, 1776, and on four subsequent occasions during and following the American Revolution, including from 1790 to 1800 during the construction of the new national capital of Washington, D.C.
With 18 four-year universities and colleges, Philadelphia is one of the nation's leading centers for higher education and academic research. As of 2018, the Philadelphia metropolitan area was the state's largest and nation's ninth-largest metropolitan economy with a gross metropolitan product of US$444.1 billion. The city is home to five Fortune 500 corporate headquarters as of 2022. As of 2023, metropolitan Philadelphia ranks among the top five U.S. venture capital centers, facilitated by its proximity to New York City's entrepreneurial and financial ecosystems. The Philadelphia Stock Exchange, owned by Nasdaq since 2008, is the nation's oldest stock exchange and a global leader in options trading. 30th Street Station, the city's primary rail station, is the third-busiest Amtrak hub in the nation, and the city's multimodal transport and logistics infrastructure, includes Philadelphia International Airport, and the rapidly-growing PhilaPort seaport. A migration pattern has been established from New York City to Philadelphia by residents opting for a large city with relative proximity and a lower cost of living.
Philadelphia is a national cultural center, hosting more outdoor sculptures and murals than any other city in the nation. Fairmount Park, when combined with adjacent Wissahickon Valley Park in the same watershed, is 2,052 acres (830 ha), representing one of the nation's largest and the world's 45th-largest urban park. The city is known for its arts, culture, cuisine, and colonial and Revolution-era history; in 2016, it attracted 42 million domestic tourists who spent $6.8 billion, representing $11 billion in economic impact to the city and its surrounding Pennsylvania counties.
With five professional sports teams and one of the nation's most loyal fan bases, Philadelphia is often ranked as the nation's best city for professional sports fans. The city has a culturally and philanthropically active LGBTQ+ community. Philadelphia also has played an immensely influential historic and ongoing role in the development and evolution of American music, especially R&B, soul, and rock.
Philadelphia is a city of many firsts, including the nation's first library (1731), hospital (1751), medical school (1765), national capital (1774), university (by some accounts) (1779), stock exchange (1790), zoo (1874), and business school (1881). Philadelphia contains 67 National Historic Landmarks, including Independence Hall. From the city's 17th century founding through the present, Philadelphia has been the birthplace or home to an extensive number of prominent and influential Americans. In 2021, Time magazine named Philadelphia one of the world's greatest 100 places.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masonic_Temple_(Philadelphia,_Pennsylvania)
The Masonic Temple is a historic Masonic building in Philadelphia. Located at 1 North Broad Street, directly across from Philadelphia City Hall, it serves as the headquarters of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania, Free and Accepted Masons. The Temple features the Masonic Library and Museum of Pennsylvania, and receives thousands of visitors every year to view the ornate structure, which includes seven lodge rooms, where today a number of Philadelphia lodges and the Grand Lodge conduct their meetings.
Additional Foreign Language Tags:
(United States) "الولايات المتحدة" "Vereinigte Staaten" "アメリカ" "美国" "미국" "Estados Unidos" "États-Unis"
(Pennsylvania) "بنسلفانيا" "宾夕法尼亚州" "Pennsylvanie" "पेंसिल्वेनिया" "ペンシルベニア" "펜실베니아" "Пенсильвания" "Pensilvania"
(Philadelphia) "فيلادلفيا" "费城" "Philadelphie" "फिलाडेल्फिया" "フィラデルフィア" "필라델피아" "Филадельфия" "Filadelfia"
Asia's Contribution to Greening Transport event organised by Asian Development Bank (ADB), Asian Infrastructure and Investment Bank (AIIB), United Nations Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD)-DSDG/UN DESA at the International Transport Forum Summit on 22 May 2024 in Leipzig, Germany. Speakers include James Leather, Director, Transport Sector Office, Asian Development Bank; Pilar Lopez Camacho, Investment Operations Specialist – Transport, Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank; Choudhury Rudra Charan Mohanty, Environment Programme Coordinator/Expert, United Nations Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD)-DSDG/UN DESA; Zheng Huaiyu, Deputy Director of the International Engineering Department, Global Sustainable Transport Innovation and Knowledge Center (GSTIKC) – China; Liu Yuanlue, Deputy Manager, China Railway Electrification Engineering Group (EEB) Co., Ltd.; Viney Sethi, Group General Manager/Finance, National Capital Region Transport Corporation (NCRTC) – India; Sungphil Hwang, Deputy Director, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MOLIT) – South Korea. Moderated by Alvin Mejia, Program Manager, Asian Transport Outlook (ATO).
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
(c) Stephen Voss and Embassy of the Netherlands.
The Holland on the Hill Heineken Award honors industry leaders who have made a substantial contribution to the US-Dutch economic relationship. This year's winner is Netflix.
April 12, 2018.
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Asia's Contribution to Greening Transport event organised by Asian Development Bank (ADB), Asian Infrastructure and Investment Bank (AIIB), United Nations Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD)-DSDG/UN DESA at the International Transport Forum Summit on 22 May 2024 in Leipzig, Germany. Speakers include James Leather, Director, Transport Sector Office, Asian Development Bank; Pilar Lopez Camacho, Investment Operations Specialist – Transport, Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank; Choudhury Rudra Charan Mohanty, Environment Programme Coordinator/Expert, United Nations Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD)-DSDG/UN DESA; Zheng Huaiyu, Deputy Director of the International Engineering Department, Global Sustainable Transport Innovation and Knowledge Center (GSTIKC) – China; Liu Yuanlue, Deputy Manager, China Railway Electrification Engineering Group (EEB) Co., Ltd.; Viney Sethi, Group General Manager/Finance, National Capital Region Transport Corporation (NCRTC) – India; Sungphil Hwang, Deputy Director, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MOLIT) – South Korea. Moderated by Alvin Mejia, Program Manager, Asian Transport Outlook (ATO).
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
Recognition for President & Vice-Chancellor's contributions: www.staffnet.manchester.ac.uk/news/display/?id=30786
Portrait of university's first female leader unveiled: www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crggrwzgl81o
Portrait of Nancy Rothwell unveiled at the Whitworth Art Gallery: www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/portrait-of-professor-dame-nancy-rothwell-unveiled-at-the-whitworth-manchester
Nancy Rothwell (born 1955) is a British physiologist who served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Manchester from 2010 to 2024. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Rothwell
Carla van de Puttelaar (born 1967) is a Dutch fine art photographer and art historian. She holds a PhD in art history from Utrecht University. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carla_van_de_Puttelaar
Celebrating our bicentenary www.manchester.ac.uk/200
Contributions by the Sinclair family as celebrated in the technology section of the National Museum of Scotland.
IBEW 569 celebrates Black History Month! Join us in highlighting the contributions and achievements of our African-American sisters and brothers within Local 569, the labor movement, and our communities. #BlackHistoryMonth
IBEW / International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers: “As we recognize Black History Month, let us never forget the invaluable contributions made by Black workers to North America’s labor movement. Standing up against discrimination, they have been on the forefront of the fight for not just civil rights but economic justice as well. And today, more than ever, Black workers are crucial to building a more robust and bigger IBEW and labor movement in the years to come. Ending systematic racism is inseparable from the goal of economic justice, and Black trade unionists will remain at the forefront of making real the full promise of democracy.”
EWMC / Electrical Workers Minority Caucus of San Diego and Imperial Counties
Photos by Rashad Autman of Revamped Ventures in collaboration with Young Black & N' Business.
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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
My contribution to our office picnic tomorrow.
1 pound unsalted butter
1 pound semisweet chocolate chips
1 package mint chocolate chips (mine was 10 oz)
6 ounces unsweetened chocolate
6 extra-large eggs
2 tablespoons vanilla extract
2 1/4 cups sugar
1 1/4 cups flour, divided
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
3 cups chopped walnuts
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour a 13x18 sheet pan. The pan I used in this photo is 12x17, which works but a bigger one would be better.
Melt together the butter, chocolate chips, and unsweetened chocolate. Cool slightly. Stir together the eggs, vanilla and sugar. Stir into the warm chocolate mixture and cool to room temperature.
Stir together 1 cup flour, baking powder and salt. Add to cooled chocolate mixture. Toss the walnuts and chocolate chips with reserved 1/4 cup flour to coat. Then mix into the chocolate batter. Pour into prepared pan.
Bake for 30 minutes or until toothpick tester comes out clean. Don't over bake!
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
This is my contribution to Photo 365 Project. The basic premise is, for one entire year, take and publish one photo for every single day.
For further information on the concept of the Photo 365 Project, follow this link content.photojojo.com/tutorials/project-365-take-a-photo-... .
This photo was taken in my garden in my back yard. It was taken during the summer of 2017. In this picture, it is showing a bee pollinating. Pollination is when pollen is moved from plant to plant or in this case flower to flower. Animals such as birds, bees, butterflies all take a part in pollination. Transfering pollen from flower to flower can help in the fertilization of the flowers.
Photo credit: Alyssa Granillo
Contribution in new e-book entitled "Strapped for Bags, Vol. 2" published by Straight from Today's Designers.
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
TEDxSingapore's 9th idea event on 19 March 2011 celebrates Wonder and countless contributions of people, passion and purpose.
Hosted by The Thought Collective Social Innovation Centre.
Photography by Kevin Lee www.kevin365.com