Remembrance Sunday: 10 November 2024
This is a national opportunity to remember the service and sacrifice of all those that have defended our freedoms and protected our way of life.
In Elmbridge Remembrance parades with road closures are due to take place on Sunday 10 November. We will update this page with the details as soon as its available.
Armistice day: Monday 11 November 2024
At the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh month – we will remember them.
To this day we mark Armistice Day (the Armistice: an agreement to end the fighting of the First World War as a prelude to peace negotiations) around the United Kingdom with a two minute silence at 11am on the 11th day of the 11th month.
Visit the Royal British Legion poppy shop.
Events taking place at our Centres for the Community
- Elmbridge Museum talk: Remembrance, Life on the Homefront: Free talk and a chance for people to share their own memories of the homefront.
- Hersham Centre: Tuesday 5 November, 10:30am to 11:30am
- Cobham Centre: Tuesday 5 November, 1pm to 2pm
- Walton Centre: Thursday 7 November, 1:30pm to 2:30pm
- Claygate Centre Remembrance Lunch: Thursday 7 November, 12pm. With a concert from ex-serviceman trumpeter Vic Gilder.
- Hersham Remembrance Event: Monday 11 November, 10:30am to 11:30am. Will be marking the minute’s silence with St Peter’s Church.
- Molesey Remembrance lunch: Monday 11 November, 12pm.
- Weybridge Remembrance coffee morning: Monday 11 November, 10am to 12pm.