Oxford will mark Remembrance Sunday on 9 November, with a parade to, and a service at, the War Memorial on St Giles.
The parade will assemble in Magdalen Street East and West and march on from 10am, under the direction of the RSM on the day, WO1 James Massey from the Mercian Regiment.
The service will start at 10.45am, with a two minute silence at 11am.
If members of the public require a British Sign Language (BSL) interpretation, an interpreter will be located on the junction of St Giles’ and Woodstock Road to the west of the dais.
Organisations attending the Parade include:
- The Salvation Army Band
- 4624 County of Oxford Movements Squadron
- Royal Auxiliary Air Force
- Activate Learning City of Oxford College
- Oxford Spires District Scouts
- Royal Air Force Cadets
- Oxfordshire Army Cadet Force
- Thames Valley Police Oxford Cadets
- Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service
- Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Cadets
- Oxford University Officers' Training Corps (OUTC)
- St John Ambulance
- Oxford Nepalese Community
- Headington Rye Oxford Combined Cadet Force (CCF)
- Quebec Company Oxfordshire Army Cadet Force
- Girlguiding Oxford
Road closures
Several road closures will be in place on Sunday 9 November from 12.01am to 2pm:
- The whole of St Giles’ will be closed
- Parking will be suspended during the Remembrance Sunday event
- The pavement on Banbury Road, opposite the war memorial, will be closed. Members of the public are advised to follow pedestrian diversions or use Woodstock Road
- Banbury Road from its junction with Parks Road to its junction with St Giles’
- Beaumont Street from its junction with St John Street to its junction with St Giles’
- Keble Road
- Junction from Keble Road to Blackhall Road
- Magdalen Street East and West
