Remembrance Day 2023

Service personnel share what Remembrance Day means to them, as people around the world pause to reflect on Saturday 11 November

'There's only one day a year where all the services come together, where even the general public can come together and commemorate the loss, what it actually means to go to war, what it actually means to people around, civilians as well as military, and that is Remembrance Day.'
 Chris Mulryne, Sergeant, Royal Army Pay Corps, British Army

Service personnel share what Remembrance Day means to them, as people around the world pause to reflect on Saturday 11 November.

In London

Learn more about the commemoration at the Gallery 101 Remembrance Day exhibition, open until Monday 13 November. Find a quiet moment to pray amidst the busyness of the city and add the names of loved ones who served or are serving in the armed forces to our wall of remembrance.

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