Please note that this event has already occured.
Key information
Date: Friday 10 November 2023
Venue: City Hall, Kamal Chunchie Way, London, E16 1ZE, GB
Cost: Free
About the event
The Remembrance Day service will be attended by an audience of invited guests.
The Greater London Authority, London Assembly and the City Hall Branch of the Royal British Legion are hosting the Annual Remembrance Day service, at City Hall, on Friday 10 November.
The 60 minutes service 10.40am - 11.40am includes;
- Welcome speech: Mary Harpley (Chief Officer, GLA)
- Opening: The Rt Revd Lynne Cullen, the Bishop of Barking
- Reading: Honorary Alderman Frances Blois
- The Collect: Col Sir Neil Thorne OBE
- Address: The Rt Revd Lynne Cullen, the Bishop of Barking
- Two minutes silence
- Reveille: Bugler
- Reading: Andrew Boff AM
- Reading: 'The Soldier' by Rupert Brooke
- Interfaith prayers (faith leaders);
- Zara Mohammed, Muslim Council of Britain
- Rajnish Kashyap, Hindu Council UK
- Gurpreet Singh Anand, Sikh Council UK
- Rabbi Miriam Berger, Finchley Reform Synagogue
- The Blessing: The Rt Revd Lynne Cullen, the Bishop of Barking
- Act of Commitment: Sir Ken Knight
- Poem: Captain (Retd) Sue Liburd MBE DL
- Reading: Jamaican High Commissioner, H.E. Alexander Williams
- Reading: Vice Admiral Sir Clive Johnstone KBE CB
- Laying of the wreaths
- Thanks: Len Duvall OBE AM
- Close: Mary Harpley
Hymns performed by The London International Gospel Choir
The service will include a series of readings, prayers and hymns, a two-minute silence observed at 11am, followed by a wreath laying ceremony.