Remembrance Day Cornwall events and services taking place this year

Lorna Hughes

4 November 2024 at 9:00 am·6-min read

Remembrance Sunday is marked in Truro with a wreath-laying ceremony at the war memorial on Boscawen Street — -Credit: (Image: Greg Martin / Cornwall Live)

Cornwall will fall silent to commemorate fallen war heroes at moving Remembrance services. People will gather at towns and villages across the county to pay their respects to the servicemen and women who have given their lives in conflicts past and present.

Parades and services will take place both on Remembrance Sunday on November 10 and Armistice Day on Monday (November 11). Two minute silences are observed on the 11th day at the 11th hour of the 11th month to remember the end of the First World War.

Armistice Day marks the day when fighting was suspended on the Western Front in 1918, so Germany and the Allies could reach a peace agreement.

Read on to find out about the services taking place across Cornwall this year.

Penzance

Remembrance Sunday - Sunday, November 10

The Remembrance Sunday Parade and Service will take place on Sunday, November 10. The service will take place outdoors at the War Memorial at Battery Rocks and will be led by Rev Howard Peskett.

Penzance Council says the Cornish language will again feature prominently in the service. Here is what will happen and when:

10.15am – The Civic Parade will form-up in the forecourt of St John’s Hall
10.35am – The parade will set off for the march to The War Memorial at Battery Rocks
10.50am – Remembrance Service wreath laying

Members of the public are welcome to watch the parade and attend the service. Following the service, Penzance Royal British Legion will be providing refreshments and a buffet at their clubhouse on Bread Street. All are welcome to attend

A rolling road closure will be in place from 10.30am-11am which includes:

Alverton Street
The Greenmarket
Market Place
Chapel Street
Under Chapel Yard
Battery Road (from the junction of Under Chapel Yard to the War Memorial)

Armistice Day – Monday, November 11

There will be a short service led by Rev Howard Peskett and Pastor Charles Fleming, Chaplain to the Mayor of Penzance, followed by a two-minute silence observed at 11am at the Memorial Gardens in Penlee Park.

Members of the public are welcome to attend and are invited to gather in the gardens from 10.45am.

Truro

Remembrance Sunday - Sunday, November 10

A service will take place at Truro Cathedral between 10am and 11.30am. Find out more here.

The act of remembrance will also be repeated at the war memorial from 11am, with a civic procession from Truro Cathedral to Boscawen Street at 2.15pm in preparation for the wreath laying service and two minute silence.

The wreath laying ceremony will take place at the war memorial in Boscawen Street at 2.30pm followed by a military parade, pausing for the salute with the King’s Lord Lieutenant Colonel Sir Edward Bolitho KCVO OBE on Boscawen Street. The military parade will make its way to High Cross for the formation of the Guard of Honour, before joining the Civic precession.

From 3.15-4.15pm the Royal British Legion Service of Remembrance will take place at Truro Cathedral. This year poppies will be dropped from the central tower during the silence, with the playing of the Last Post.

Armistice Day – Monday, November 11

Truro will come together at the War Memorial on Boscawen Street at 11am for a two minute silence.

Redruth

The annual Redruth Remembrance Sunday parade and service will take place on Sunday, November 10. All are welcome to attend. The parade will departs Seaview Terrace at 10:40am.

The procession will go along Albany Road before turning left into Victoria Park, where at 11am a two-minute silence will be held. Wreaths will then be laid around the war memorial.

The parade will then leave Victoria Park, head back down Albany Road, before concluding at St Andrew's Church where all are welcome for a service and light refreshments.

Porthleven

Those who want to be a part of the Remembrance Sunday procession in Porthleven on Sunday, November 10 are being asked to assemble at the Public Hall at 2pm. This year's service will take place at the Methodist Chapel at 2.15pm followed by wreath laying at the War Memorial.

There will also be an Act of Remembrance at the War Memorial on November 11 at 11am.

Camborne

The Remembrance Parade in Camborne will be held on Sunday, November 10, organised by the Camborne branch of the Royal British Legion and facilitated by Camborne Town Council. The parade will muster from 10am in Commercial Square.

It will depart around 10.25, ending outside Camborne Church, for a Remembrance Service to be held at around 11am.

Newquay

Newquay's Remembrance parade will form at the car park on Fore Street from 9.30am on Sunday, November 10 setting off at 10am to St Michaels Church. Wreaths will be laid at Newquay War Memorial following a church service.

The Royal British Legion (RBL) Newquay Branch will hold a wreath laying ceremony at the Newquay War Memorial, Dane Road, on Monday, November from 10.45am.

St Ives

The remembrance parade in St Ives will leave from the Guildhall at 10.50am on Sunday, November 10 and proceed to the war memorial via Tregenna Place and the High Street. At 11.15am the parade will then proceed to St Ives Parish Church, St Andrews Street, for the Service of Remembrance.

Hayle

A service of remembrance will take place at St Elwyn's Church on Sunday, November 10 at 10am. The parade to Hayle war memorial will set off at 10.45am, followed by a service at the war memorial at 10.55am. Refreshments will be served afterwards at the Drill Hall.

Falmouth

Remembrance Sunday - Sunday, November 10

In Falmouth, there will be a Remembrance Sunday parade and service at Kimberley Park. The timings are as follows: The parade will depart the Moor at 10.35am. At 11am there will be a service at the war memorial, including a two-minute silence and wreath laying.

At 11.30am the parade will depart Kimberley Park for the return to the Moor for a march past and salute by the town's mayor.

Armistice Day – Monday, November 11

A two-minute silence will be observed. Meet at the St Nazaire Memorial on the Prince of Wales Pier at 10.50am for the two-minute silence at 11am.

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Camborne

Newquay

St Ives

Hayle

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