Maidenhead & Windsor

The Royal Windsor and Maidenhead Borough will once again join the country's tribute to those who gave their lives in two world wars and the many subsequent conflicts with acts of remembrance in both Maidenhead and Windsor on Remembrance Day (Sunday November 9).

At 10.45am in Windsor the Deputy Mayor, Cllr Catherine Bursnall, will lead the Act of Remembrance at the war memorial in the High Street, where there will be a wreath-laying ceremony. Rev Mary Barnes will officiate at both the war memorial and at the service to follow in the parish church, both of which will be attended by local ex-service men and women and members of uniformed youth organisations.

Drivers should avoid Park Street, High Street, River Street, Goswell Road, Osborne Road, Alma Road, Claremont Road and Sheet Street between 10.30am and 12 noon.

In Maidenhead the Mayor, Cllr Dorothy Kemp, will lead the civic party for the Act of Remembrance and wreath-laying at the war memorial, St Ives Road. Starting at 10.50am, the event will also be attended by representatives of ex-service and uniformed youth organisations.

The service of remembrance will be held afterwards in the Borough Church of St Mary, conducted by Rev Will Stileman, and afterwards there will be a march past with the salute taken by Cllr Kemp outside the Town Hall.

Drivers are advised to avoid the High Street, St Ives Road and Bridge Avenue area from 10am to 11.10am and from about 12.30pm to 1pm.

The events in both towns are traditionally well attended by people from throughout the community, including MPs, local magistrates, former mayors and councillors and the general public.

Orders of service will be available at the two war memorials so that everyone who attends will have the opportunity to play a full part in the proceedings.

Armistice Day - Tuesday 11 November
Members of the public in both Windsor and Maidenhead are invited to join councillors to mark the occasion.

The Mayor, Cllr Dorothy Kemp, will attend the short ceremony at the war memorial outside the Town Hall, while at the Guildhall in Windsor the Deputy Mayor, Cllr Catherine Bursnall, will be carrying out a similar duty.

At the Town Hall, a ceremonial cannon will be fired prior to 11am. A bugler will play The Last Post to mark the beginning of the two minutes' silence, which will end with the firing of the second cannon and the sounding of Reveille.

To allow members of the public to gather safely for the occasion, arrangements have been made for traffic to be stopped briefly from approximately 10.55am.

A bugler from the RAF will take part in the Windsor event, where The Last Post will be sounded just before 11am, followed by the silence and Reveille.

Again, members of the public are invited to be in place at the Guildhall by 10.55am (there will be no road closure so people are requested to keep on the footways or the paved areas outside the building).

The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead