Remembrance Day Parade, Crewe (Sun 9/11/14) /kClyiqR0jJ Mayor inspecting parade at packed Remembrance ceremony at Bath Cenotaph /ZxMpEXA9r3 Many people, including MPs, posted images from events on Twitter. Some footage featuring the military bands taking part in the UK's national Remembrance Ceremony at the Cenotaph in London on Sunday 9 November 2014. In Fort William, in Scotland, a town parade was held and a war memorial service. 2014 also saw the withdrawal of British troops from Afghanistan. first world war and 70 years since the D-day landings. Veterans joined members of the public to pay their respects at the National Memorial Arboretum in Alrewas, Staffordshire, as part of Remembrance Sunday ceremonies. The Queen has led the country in the annual ritual of Remembrance Sunday.
Scotland Yard said it had an “appropriate and proportionate” policing plan in place for the event, after four men were arrested in connection with an alleged Islamist terror plot on British soil on Thursday.ĭavid Cameron described this year’s Remembrance Sunday as “particularly poignant” as 2014 marked the 100th anniversary of the start of the First World War, the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings and the end of Britain’s 13 year conflict in Afghanistan. The Queen laid the first wreath at the Cenotaph in Whitehall, London, where there was a large police presence and a helicopter flying above the site.
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