THIS IS A PAST EVENT
13th November 2011
Nottingham's Civic Service of Remembrance will take place at the War Memorial, Victoria Embankment, on Sunday 13th November, starting at 10.45am.
It will be conducted by the Bishop of Southwell and Nottingham, the Rt. Revd. Paul Butler; the Bishop of Nottingham, the Rt. Revd. Malcolm McMahon; the Lord Mayor's Chaplain, Revd. Christopher Harrison, and Bishop James Stapleton of the Open Christian Fellowship.
The Act of Homage will be delivered by the Venerable Robin Turner CB, DL, County President of the Royal British Legion, and Major Paul Binnie.
The Lord Mayor of Nottingham, Councillor Michael Wildgust, will lay a wreath at the War Memorial for the Service. The Lord Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire, Sir Andrew Buchanan, will take the salute at the March Past at the end of the service.
Music before and during the service will be provided by the Nottinghamshire Band of the Royal Engineers Volunteers and Farnborough School Technology College Choir.
The Lord Mayor and other dignitaries will return to the Council House in the Old Market Square at the end of the service to take the salute during a March Past of the South Notts Hussars Association following their service at St Mary's Church in The Lace Market.
The commemorations to honour those killed in conflict begin on Friday, November 11, when the Lord Mayor and the Sheriff of Nottingham join members of the Royal British Legion and members of the public on the forecourt of the Council House to observe the official two-minutes silence at 11am. Chairman of the Nottingham Branch of the Royal British Legion, Honorary Alderman Roy Greensmith, will give the Exhortation and Kohima Epitaph .
The bugler, Max Carty, a pupil at Nottingham High School, will sound the Last Post and Reveille and members of the 307 Battery South Notts Hussars will fire the gun to begin and end the silence.
The commemoration in the Old Market Square on November 11 is organised by the Royal British Legion. For more information please contact Janet Baker from the Royal British Legion on 0115 974 6347.
