Friday 11th November
11am – Worthing War Memorial, Chapel Road two minute silence
Sunday 13th November
11am – Worthing War Memorial, Chapel Road
11am – Shoreham War Memorial, East Street
In Worthing, the Remembrance Service and March Past will take place at the town’s War Memorial in Chapel Road. The two minute silence will start at 11am on the first stroke of the Town Hall clock after which the Mayor’s Chaplain, Major Sarah Evans will take the Service.
Worthing Mayor, Councillor Sean McDonald, accompanied by the Lord Lieutenant of West Sussex Mrs Susan Pyper, will lay poppy wreaths for the fallen from Worthing and West Sussex and take the salute at the March Past in front of the Town Hall at approximately 11.30am after the service.
The Worthing’s Salvation Army Citadel Band led by Bandmaster Alan Slator will play during the service and lead the March Past.
The Civics attending the service include Honorary Aldermen, Borough Councillors, County Councillors, Worthing Youth Mayor David Price, Adur & Worthing Councils Chief Executive, Alex Bailey, Sussex Police Chief Inspector Howard Hodges and Kevin Parvin of the West Sussex Fire and Rescue Service.
The Parade, led by Parade Marshal, Tony Avery, Worthing Combined Ex-Services Association/Royal Naval Association includes the Worthing Combined Ex-Services Contingent with their Standard Bearers and Escorts and Contingents from the Royal British Legion, the Sea Cadet Corps, Army Cadet Force, Air Training Corps, Sussex Police, West Sussex Fire & Rescue Service, St John Ambulance, British Red Cross Society and local Scouting and Guide Associations.
Mayor of Worthing, Councillor Sean McDonald says:
“I am extremely proud and humbled to represent my town and I would like to take this opportunity to say thank you to the many local organisations from Worthing and further afield who continue to support our annual Remembrance Service and Parade.
“I shall be attending the 2 minute silence at 11am on Armistice Day on Friday 11th. Also joining me this year for the 2 minute silence will be children from Downsbrook Primary School who have contributed to an exhibition of poems, being displayed in the foyer of Worthing Town Hall. The exhibition is free to the public from 9.30 – 4.30pm, Friday 11th to Friday 18th November. I warmly invite everyone to join me at these Remembrance services to show their respect.”
The two minute silence for Armistice Day will be signalled by a rocket fired from the Worthing beach office and another to signal at the end of the silence.
In Adur, Councillor Ann Bridges, the Chairman of Adur District Council, will lay a wreath at 11am at the Shoreham War Memorial in East Street as part of the Royal British Legion (RBL) service starting at 10am, and again at 2.45pm before the 3pm RBL service in Lancing.
Councillor James Butcher, Vice Chairman of Adur District Council, will lay a wreath on behalf of the District at the Southwick RBL service on Southwick Green at 11am.