Annual Remembrance Day Parade and Service
Posted on Tuesday 6th November 2018
Cenotaph, Newport
The annual Remembrance Day Parade and Service will take place on Sunday, November 11 in Newport city centre.
The Parade Commander RSM Mathew Years of the 104 Regiment Royal Artillery will call participants to order at 10.35am at the top of High Street.
The Boys Brigade will lead the parade followed by the Mayor and Mayoress Councillor Malcolm Linton and Mrs Sharon Linton, led by two mace bearers from Newport Sea Cadets.
The Lord Lieutenant Brigadier Robert Aitken and the High Sheriff Mrs Sharon Linnard will be joined by the Leader of Newport City Council Councillor Debbie Wilcox, the leader of the Opposition Councillor Matthew Evans, along with council officials and councillors who will join the parade with other associations and youth groups.
The service, led by the Reverend Canon Stephen James, will take place at Newport Cenotaph at 10.58am with the guns sounding at 11am to mark the start of the two minutes silence.
After the two minutes silence the wreath laying ceremony will be led by the Lord Lieutenant Brigadier Robert Aitken along with the Mayor, the High Sheriff, representatives of the Royal British Legion and other veterans.
They will be followed by Cllr Wilcox, council leader, Cllr Evans, leader of the opposition Jessica Morden MP and AMs Jane Bryant, John Griffiths and Mohammed Asghar as well as representatives from the Royal Navy, Army, Royal Air Force, the Merchant Navy, the police, South Wales Fire Service, South Wales Ambulance as well as the Police and Crime Commissioner and representatives of other organisations attending.
After the service the Lord Lieutenant, the Mayor, the CO of the 104 Regiment, the High Sheriff and the VIP party will walk over to the dais to take the salute from the parade as it walks past.
The parade will be dismissed from High Street.
Newport City Council is hosting the event and warns that road closures will have to be in place from 7am until noon on parade day.
The closures will affect High Street, Upper Dock Street (from Skinner Street to the Old Green roundabout), Old Green roundabout, slip road to Old Green roundabout from Kingsway, slip road to Old Green roundabout from Wyndham Street, Town Bridge (both directions), Clarence Place (both directions), Caerleon Road from Clarence Place to Church Road, Chepstow Road from Clarence Place to Cedar Road, Corporation Road from Clarence Place to St Vincent Road and East Usk Road from Clarence Place to Tregare Street.