Our guide to Remembrance Sunday and Armistice Day events in and around Cambridge
Communities will fall silent to remember the sacrifices made by so many on Remembrance Sunday and on Armistice Day.
In Cambridge, shortly before 11am on Sunday (10 November), mayor Cllr Baiju Thittala will be part of a procession from Station Road to the war memorial on Hills Road, where a wreath will be laid.
Representatives of different organisations, including the Armed Forces and the Royal British Legion, will take part in the commemorative service at the memorial.
Deputy mayor Cllr Dinah Pounds will join a procession to the county, city and University of Cambridge’s annual service of remembrance at Great St Mary’s Church. Both services will pause at 11am for two minutes’ silence.
On Monday (11 November), there will be a gathering outside the Guildhall from 10.55am with a reading from the deputy mayor, a bugler and Scottish pipes.
Cllr Thittala said: “I hope people will be able to take a moment to remember the sacrifices made by so many of their fellow Cambridge residents.”
Residents can listen to live coverage from 10.30am on Sunday on Cambridge 105 Radio or watch via youtube.com/Cambridge105.
A church service will also be held on Saturday (9 November) to honour the fallen Indian soldiers of World War I and World War II.
The service will include readings, prayers, and reflections to pay tribute to the pivotal contributions of the Indian soldiers during both wars where a combined total of four million brave soldiers served.
Services will also be held in communities across the region. In Melbourn, a Remembrance Day parade will take place through the village.
The high street will be closed from 10.30am to 11.15am from the village car park to The Cross.
In Duxford, the Royal Anglian Regimental Remembrance Sunday service will take place at the memorial at Imperial War Museum Duxford at 10.45am and end by 11.05am.
Veterans and serving military personnel can gain free admission to IWM Duxford. There will be a flypast and a poppy drop at 12.30pm.
On Sunday in Cottenham, at 10.30-11.30am, there will be a service at the war memorial, and then on Monday, 11 November, at 10.40-11.20am, there will be another short service again at the memorial.
Cambourne’s Remembrance Parade in Eastgate will take place before and after the Act of Remembrance, which starts at 10.50am outside the church, while in Sawston, the Remembrance ceremony will be held at the war memorial at 10.45am.
In Bassingbourn, there will be an Act of Remembrance and service at the village’s war memorial, starting at 10.45am.
Those taking part in the parade in Royston are asked to arrive at the forming up point in Queens Road at 10am.
The parade steps off at 10.25am, arriving at the war memorial at 10.35. The service is due to start at 10.40.
There will also be a service at the war memorial on Melbourn Street at 10.50am, followed by a service at the 91st Bomb Group memorial in Priory Memorial Gardens.
On Remembrance Sunday in Histon and Impington, uniformed services will take part in a parade that will set off from the Royal British Legion Club, Saffron Road, Histon, at 9.15am. Road closures will be in place.
The parade will form up at the Histon war memorial, with the service from 9.30am. On Monday, there will be a short service at the war memorial from 10.50am.
The American Cemetery at Madingley will mark Veterans Day at 11am on Monday.
