The Lord Mayor’s Chaplain the Rev Canon Paul Greenwell will also make an address. The Service of Remembrance will be conducted by the Rev Dominic Black, vicar of Hull Minster and the Bishop of Hull, the Rt Rev Dr Eleanor Sanderson. A procession of civic heads and dignitaries will make their way to the Cenotaph from the Guildhall.Ĭrowds gather in Hull for the 2021 Remembrance Day service at the Cenotaph (Image: Katie Pugh)Ī two-minute silence will be held at 11am. Remembrance events taking place in and around Hull this year include the following: Hull CenotaphĪt 10.30am on Sunday, November 13, a parade will leave from Pease Street and travel to the city centre Cenotaph before the annual Service of Remembrance takes place at 10.55am. The wearing of a red poppy is central to the observing of Remembrance, a symbol that represents hope for a positive future and a peaceful world. The Armistice (Armistice is Latin for to stand, or still arms), an agreement to end the fighting as a prelude to peace negotiations, began at 11am, on November 11, 1918, and has been marked around the UK with a two-minute silence ever since. Read more: Hull's Remembrance Sunday 2022 service details confirmedĪ separate but connected commemoration is Remembrance Day, or Armistice Day, marked at 11am on the 11th day of the 11th month. Honouring members of the Armed Forces who have fallen in the line of duty, similar tributes are also held on the day – this year it falls on Sunday, November 13 - around the country, at war monuments, in churches, in memorial gardens and other public spaces. Government leaders also attend the huge ceremony that features a march-past involving 10,000 veterans. That service is attended by senior members of the Royal Family - this year will be King Charles III’s first Remembrance Sunday, when he is expected to break with tradition and lay a wreath in a different design to that of his mother, the late Queen Elizabeth II. Remembrance Sunday falls on the second Sunday of November, the closest Sunday to Armistice Day, when the National Service of Remembrance takes place at the Cenotaph in London’s Whitehall, at 11am. Traditional Acts of Remembrance will be performed in Hull and East Yorkshire communities this coming weekend.
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