Cathedral to host city's Remembrance commemorations - The Worcester Observer

Cathedral to host city's Remembrance commemorations

Worcester Editorial 9th Nov, 2017   0

CITY RESIDENTS are being invited to remember all those who gave their lives for peace and freedom at Worcester’s main Remembrance Sunday commemoration.

This year’s event on Sunday will allow the Faithful City to once again pay its respects to those who made the ultimate sacrifice both in the two world wars and subsequent conflicts worldwide.

A service will take place at Worcester Cathedral from 10am with a wreath-laying ceremony at the War Memorial in the cathedral grounds beginning at 10.55am

This will include the two minutes’ silence at 11am, which will end with the firing of a gun in the cathedral grounds, followed by the playing of the Last Post.




A large number of city residents are expected to gather to witness the wreath-laying ceremony and among those laying wreaths will be Mayor of Worcester, Coun Steve Mackay.

“This will be a solemn, important and moving ceremony to remember the many people who have fallen to protect the freedoms we all enjoy. I hope as many people as possible are able to attend,” he said.


Other organisations involved in Worcester’s Remembrance Sunday commemorations will include contingents from 214 Battery Royal Artillery; Royal British Legion, Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regimental Association, Navy, Army and Air Force Cadets; West Mercia Police; Hereford and Worcester Fire and Rescue Service; St John’s Ambulance; British Red Cross; and the Scouts and Guides from across the area.

The service will be followed by a parade along High Street, with the Mayor and the Lord Lieutenant of Worcestershire, Lt Col Patrick Holcroft LVO OBE, taking the salute outside the Guildhall as veterans and uniformed organisations march past.

Road closures in the city centre will be in place to accommodate the parade and the War Memorial ceremony.

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