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Ypres Poppy Parade and Remembrance Ceremony

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The annual Remembrance ceremony in Ypres this year will commemorate the 106th Anniversary of the Armistice. There will be a number of events in the city and surrounding area on the day. 08.45 A.M. - Commemoration French cemetery St. Charles de Potyze 09.15 A.M. - Service in St. George's Memorial Church 09.30 A.M. - Eucharist in the St. Martin's...

Lochnagar Remembrance Ceremony - 11th November 2023

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The Friends of Lochnagar invites everyone to an Armistice Day remembrance Ceremony at Lochnagar Crater which will commence at 12.00 midday on 11th November 2023. Attendees should arrive at the Crater by 11.50am and if you have a whistle from the period, please bring it along. There will also be a Facebook Livestream from the Lochnagar Ceremony w...

Dawn Commemoration of the Battle of Arras 2025

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In the early hours of the morning of 9th April 1917, the Battle of Arras commenced with 24,000 British soldiers emerging from the protection of underground chalk quarries under the south-eastern part of the city, painstakingly and intricately connected by tunnellers from New Zealand in the months preceding the attack. In what has become a noted...

ANZAC Day Dawn Service 2025: Australian National Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux

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This moving service will take place at the Australian National Memorial, France at 5.30am on Friday 25th April 2025. This year’s ceremony marks the 107th Anniversary of the Second Battle of Villers-Bretonneux, when Australian Troops finally captured the town after fierce fighting. This action represents the high-water mark of the German Spring O...

ANZAC Day Dawn Service 2025: Polygon Wood

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The municipality of Zonnebeke, the Passchendaele Museum and the Passchendaele Society 1917 will be holding a dawn service to commemorate ANZAC Day at the Buttes, New British Cemetery at 6am on Friday 25th April 2025. The cemetery is in Polygon Wood, south of Zonnebeke, where 2,108 Commonwealth soldiers are either buried or commemorated including...

Thiepval Memorial Commemoration - 1st July 2024

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At 10.30am on the 1st of July 2024, there will be a commemoration service at the Thiepval Memorial to mark the 108th Anniversary of the Battle of the Somme. Etched on the walls of this iconic monument, cared for by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, are the names of 72,000 British and South African soldiers who fought and died in the area,...

Ulster Memorial Tower Service of Remembrance - 1st July 2024

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A Service of Remembrance to commemorate the 108th anniversary of The Battle of the Somme will be held at the Ulster Memorial Tower, Thiepval, France on the 1st of July 2024 at 2.30pm. The memorial is a replica of Helen’s Tower on the Clandeboye Estate in Co. Down and this is the area, including the nearby Schwaben Redoubt, around which the 36th...

Commemoration at the Ginchy Cross in Guillemont - 1st July 2024

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On the 1st of July 2024, there will be an Act of Remembrance to commemorate the 108th anniversary of The Battle of the Somme at the Ginchy Cross, Guillemont, France at 4.30pm. The 16th (Irish) Division went into action here in September 1916, suffering over 4,300 casualties and the memorial is inscribed in Gaelic “Do chum Gloire De agus Onora na...