Remembrance Sunday Service

Remembrance Sunday comes to Plymouth Hoe on Sunday 8 November, with the service starting at 11:00. The two-minute silence happens right at 11am, and the whole thing lasts about twenty minutes. It's held at the Royal Naval Memorial, Plymouth Hoe, Plymouth, Devon, PL1 2PJ.

The Bishop of Exeter, The Rt Revd Dr Mike Harris, leads the service. He's joined by the Lord Mayor, Councillor Kevin Sproston, the Vice Lord-Lieutenant of Devon, Rear Admiral Chris Snow, MPs and elected members representing all political groups, and representatives from the visiting Brazilian navy ship NDM Oiapoque and the US Coastguard. Once the service finishes, the processional party moves to the Civilian Memorial in Lockyer Street, where Arezoo Farahzad, Chair of the Plymouth Centre for Faiths and Cultural Diversity, reads a poem.

The service remembers all those who lost their lives in both world wars and in all conflicts. It's streamed on the council's YouTube channel, so you can follow along from home if you can't make it down. On the Hoe, the morning brings together hundreds of veterans, serving members of the armed forces, dignitaries and members of the public. It sits alongside further acts of remembrance across Dartmoor and the surrounding area, so it's part of a wider day of marking the occasion across the region.

If you're planning to go, the main service is at the Royal Naval Memorial on the Hoe, starting at 11:00, with the two-minute silence at 11am and the whole thing wrapping up in about twenty minutes. The processional then moves to the Civilian Memorial in Lockyer Street for the reading.