Remembrance services 2018
At the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh month. The Two Minute Silence is observed on Armistice Day, the day which marks the end of the First World War.
Everyone is welcome to attend the remembrance services taking place in West Lane in SE16, Borough High Street in SE1 and Burgess Park
Bermondsey & Rotherhithe Remembrance Sunday in West Lane
Sunday 11th November |10:50 am
West Lane War MemorialWest Ln, London SE16 4NY
In 1915, the 22nd battalion set off to take part in the Great War in which hundreds of Bermondsey men fought on the Western Front and in the Salonika Campaign in the Balkans. By the end of the war, 970 Bermondsey men fighting in the regiment had died. Their names are inscribed on the memorial located at West Lane. This Sunday there will be a ceremony to show tributes to those who died in battle.