Tuesday 11th November 2024 10.45- 11.30am

All welcome

Join us for our annual Remembrance ceremony at the Great War Memorial at Soldiers' Corner War Memorial on 11th November 2024. The ceremony will include readings from local organisations, prayers for the fallen read by the Reverend Pete Slee,  and wreath laying by representatives of the Armed Forces. The ceremony will begin at 10.50am. A two minutes silence will be held at 11am sharp. 

Our Commemoration event

Approximately 900 WW1 casualties are buried in Bristol cemeteries and graveyards.  There are over 350 at Arnos Vale cemetery and 240 of these men are buried in in front of the memorial at ’Soldiers’ Corner’ in front of the Great War Memorial. This small part of the cemetery contains the largest concentration of Great War dead in the city.

The war memorial is found near the front gates of the cemetery by the Bath Road.  It was commissioned and funded by the Bristol branch of the British Red Cross Society in the early 20th Century.  On Friday 21 October 1921 the memorial was unveiled by Emily, Duchess of Beaufort.  It was dedicated by the Right Reverend George Nickson, the Bishop of Bristol . The Bristol Times and Mirror  estimated that two to three thousand attended the ceremony. Our ceremony follows this tradition of remembrance in the cemetery.