Remembrance Day Services 2009
 
Remembrance Sunday in the UK is a national day of
remembrance for those killed in both world
wars and later conflicts. Before
1956 it was called Armistice Day. In
Canada and the UK, the 11th of November
is called Remembrance Day and in the US
its equivalent is Veterans Day. |
Poppies,
symbolic of the blood shed, are sold in aid of
war invalids and their dependants. They are
chosen as a symbol of remembrance because those
flowers bloomed on French, Belgian and Italian
fields during the fiercest battles of both world
wars. Remembrance Sunday is observed by a
two-minute silence at the time of the signature
of the armistice: 11:00 am, 11th November 1918
(although since 1956 the day of commemoration
has been the Sunday). On this day wreaths of
poppies are laid on war memorials and in gardens
of remembrance in countries around the world.
The British monarch lays a wreath at the
Cenotaph, the memorial in Whitehall, in London
on the morning of Remembrance Sunday and two
minutes silence is observed from 11am.
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Remembrance
Day Services in Merton, November 2009
Remebrance Sunday 8th November 2009
| Service of Remembrance, Nelson Hospital, Kingston Road, London, SW20 |
9am |
| Service of Remembrance, St Lawrence's Church, London Road, Morden |
10.30am |
| Service of Remembrance, Mitcham War Memorial, Lower Green West, Mitcham, Surrey |
10.40am |
| Service of Remembrance, Wimbledon
War Memorial, High Street,
Wimbledon Village, London, SW19 |
10.40am |
Remembrance
Sunday Service at the Cenotaph,
Whitehall, London,
Sunday 8th November 2009
| Cenotaph,
Whitehall, London, SW1 |
11am |
Wednesday, 11th November
| Civic Centre, Morden |
10.50am |
| Clock Tower, Fair Green, Mitcham |
10.50am |
Wimbledon War Memorial © WimbledonVisitor.Com
2002 - 2009
Remembrance Day photographs © WimbledonVisitor.Com
2002 - 2009
except poppy image © Microsoft Corporation
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