Stockton Parish Church will hold its usual Sunday Service at 9.30am with a remembrance theme, ending with the Act of Remembrance at the Cenotaph at 10.45am. The Annual Remembrance Day Service and Parade took place in Middlesbrough (Image: Doug Moody Photography) S t ockton The Parade will form at 10.30am ready to march up to the Cenotaph for the Service, which should finish at 12.30pm. Like in previous years, the Civic Party will march to the Cenotaph. The Mayor is also set to attend the Remembrance Sunday Parade and Service to be held on Sunday, November 13. This year will mark the centenary of the Cenotaph and an accompanying small display will be shown at the Dorman Museum. Pupils from across Middlesbrough's primary and secondary schools have been invited to lay a poppy cross in the field of remembrance.Ī further service will be held at the Cenotaph to observe the two-minute silence for Armistice Day which will start at 10.45am on Friday, November 11. Following the ceremony, the Mayor and Civic Party will assemble at the Town Hall when at noon the Mayor will turn a page in each of the Books of Remembrance to honour the men and women from the Middlesbrough area who lost their lives the two World Wars and other conflicts. The Elected Mayor of Middlesbrough, Andy Preston, will be laying the First Poppy on the Field of Remembrance at the Cenotaph, Linthorpe Road, Middlesbrough at 10.40am on Thursday, November 10. Here is the full list of events and timings across Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland, Stockton, Hartlepool and Darlington for the next few days: Middlesbrough READ MORE: Rogue builder cheated and fiddled customers who paid for home improvements - including Alzheimer's sufferer Parades and the 'laying of wreaths' ceremonies will take place earlier in the week, whilst the main services across Teesside will take place on Sunday, November 13. This year, various acts of remembrance will be observed across our region, as the anniversary of Armistice Day, November 11, falls on a Friday. It gives us as a nation the opportunity to come together to remember all the soldiers who sacrificed themselves so that we were able to live free of our own volition. Remembrance Day marks the day that World War One ended, at 11am on the eleventh day of the eleventh month, in 1918. People across Teesside are preparing to pay their respects to all those who bravely gave their lives in service to our country.
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