Remembrance Day 2024
Banbury Town Council’s 2024 Remembrance event welcomed large crowds, with attendees from every corner of the town and beyond joining in with the commemorations and paying their respects to those who have lost their lives to conflict.
The large military parade disembarked Town Hall and up High Street towards St. Mary’s Church, where a service in honour of those who have lost their lives to conflict was held.
Afterwards, a wreath-laying ceremony, which was contributed to by veterans, cadets, and regiments from across Banbury and well-beyond (including members of the US armed forces).
The parade then returned past Banbury Cross and back down High Street, where it completed its journey back outside Town Hall.
The parade, service, and wreath-laying arrived after weeks of Council-led projects and activities celebrating Remembrance Day 2024, which fell 110 years after the start of World War I, the conflict that initiated Remembrance services across the country ever since.
While WWI led to the creation of Remembrance Sunday and Remembrance Day, every conflict – and the lives to them – is acknowledged during these events.
Other Remembrance initiatives included 800 hand-stitched crocheted poppies, created by local group All Things Woolly.
These poppies, attached to camouflage netting – hung over the balcony of Town Hall, which was also illuminated nightly with red lighting and eye-catching projections commemorating the occasion.
The Council also worked with several schools, including St. Leonard’s, St. Mary’s, Wroxton Primary, Bishop Loveday School, and Frankwise School to decorate dozens of large poppies with the names of fallen soldiers who lost their lives during WWI and WWII.
The names of these soldiers were taken from the war memorials within Saint Mary’s Church, with Banbury Air Cadets 1460 also assisting in transferring these names onto the poppies.
Meanwhile, art students from Activate Learning have been hard at work on a number of pieces in honour of Remembrance Day, with a wide range of subjects covered, including the D-Day landings, the 80th anniversary of which was celebrated earlier in the year, on the 6th June.
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