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Remembrance Day events 2024

Remembrance events 2024

Remembrance Sunday falls on the second Sunday in November each year. It is a day for the nation to remember and honour all those who have sacrificed themselves to secure and protect our freedom.

Armistice Day marks the end of the First World War. It falls on 11 November each year. A 2-minute silence is observed on the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh month.

Thurrock Museum are holding a free Armistice Day Exhibition between Saturday 2nd  - Friday 15th November. The exhibition will feature six of the war memorials in Thurrock and commemorate local men from the First and Second World Wars. 

Many remembrance events are held in towns and villages across Thurrock each year.

Sunday 3 November 2024

Time Place Town or village
1:55pm service West Thurrock Memorial Park, London Road, West Thurrock West Thurrock 

9:45am service

Purfleet Heritage Centre, Centurion Way, Purfleet and onto St Stephen’s Church Purfleet 

Sunday 10 November 2024

9:00am service

Turps Corner, Little Thurrock

Little Thurrock 

9:15am service

War Memorial on wall in church

St Michael’s Fobbing

9.45am service

St. Michael’s Church, High Street, Aveley RM15 4AD

Aveley

10:00am service

Grays War Memorial

Grays

10:00am service

Orsett War Memorial, (Opposite Whitmore Arms), Orsett, Cenotaph for Orsett

Orsett

10:30am service

Tilbury War Memorial (Civic Square), Town Centre, Tilbury

Tilbury

10:30am service

St Margaret’s Parish Church, Stanford-le-Hope War Memorial, The Green, Stanford-le-Hope

Stanford-le-Hope

10:30am service

St Johns, 8A Victoria Avenue, Grays, RM16 2RP

Grays

10:45am service

War memorial on wall in church, Rookery Hill, War Memorial, Corringham

Corringham

10:45am service

Bata War Memorial, East Tilbury

East Tilbury

10:45am service

St. Peter & St. Paul Church, Orsett Road, Horndon-on-the-Hill

Horndon-on-the-Hill

10:45am service

St. Nicholas Church, The Green, South Ockendon

South Ockendon

10:50am service

St. Mary’s Church, Linford Road (Chadwell Hill)

Chadwell St. Mary

10.50am service  Stifford War Memorial, Cemetery at St Mary’s Church, High Road, North Stifford, RM16 5UE North Stifford

2.00pm service approx

War Memorial – located on wall in Kershaw Close, Chafford

Chafford

2:00pm service

St Mary-the-Virgin, Bulphan

Bulphan

Monday 11 November 2024 (Armistice Day) 

10.50am 

War Memorial on Stifford Green, Guardian Avenue

North Stifford 

Other events

Other remembrance events may be taking place around the borough. If you have organised an event for your community and would like us to list it here, please email us the details.

Communications team

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Royal British Legion

The Royal British Legion supports serving members of the Armed Forces, veterans and their families. Go to Royal British Legion: Remembrance to find out more about Remembrance and Remembrance events in the UK on the website.