This year’s Remembrance Day ceremony in Brixton on Sunday (10 November) will be the first unified ceremony for several years. Previous years have seen two separate events.
The service, starting at 2pm, will take place at the African and Caribbean war memorial in Windrush Square and marks the 10th anniversary of its unveiling in the Black Cultural Archives three years before it was installed on the square, and the 110th year since the start of the First World War.
High Commissioners from countries who sent people to fight for Britain in two world wars, MPs, veterans, military personnel, and special guests will take part in the service.
A wreath-laying ceremony will follow the playing of the Last Post and a minute’s silence.
Lambeth council said that, of the 17.3 million service personnel who served in two World Wars, it is estimated that 2 million were drawn from Africa and the Caribbean.
The 2024 event is organised by the Nubian Jak Community Trust, which worked so hard to create and install the African and Caribbean war memorial, in partnership with the West Indian Association of Service Personnel (WASP), the Black Cultural Archives, and Friends of Windrush Square and is supported by the Ministry of Defence and Lambeth council.
Other public remembrance services and wreath-laying ceremonies across Lambeth on Sunday include:
- Stockwell (Clock) War Memorial Gardens, next to Stockwell Underground Station, from 10.45am
- Albert Carr Gardens War Memorial, on the corner of the High Road and Streatham Common Northside, from 10.30am
- Kennington Park War Memorial, Kennington Park, the gate to the memorial will be open for those wishing to lay a wreath from 11am
- The SOE Agents Monument, Lambeth Palace Road, on a grassed area between Lambeth Palace and the River Thames, from 10.30am
- Vincennes War Memorial, Vincennes Estate, in Hamilton Road, SE27, from 3pm
- There will be an international peace parade in Windrush Square, from 1.50pm
