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Remembrance Sunday march 2023: Map shows full route of today’s parade as King prepares to lead memorial service at the Cenotaph


The National Service of Remembrance will take place later today at the Cenotaph in London to mark the end of the First World War

The annual event, which takes place on the Sunday closest to November 11, will be led by King Charles, with wreaths being laid by members of the Royal Family and senior politicians at the base of the war memorial.

A two minute silence will be held at 11am to commemorate the contribution of British and Commonwealth military and civilian servicemen and women. 

Around 10,000 veterans and 800 armed forces personnel will also take part in a march past the Cenotaph after the service ends. 

MailOnline has put together a map of the march, which will feature members from more than 300 organisations including active servicemen and women, veterans, cadets, health workers and religious groups. 

Remembrance Sunday march 2023: Map shows full route of today’s parade as King prepares to lead memorial service at the Cenotaph

A map showing the route of the Remembrance Day March on Sunday November 12

The National Service of Remembrance will take place later today at the Cenotaph (pictured) in London to mark the end of the First World War

The annual event, which takes place on on the Sunday closest to November 11, will be led by King Charles (pictured), with wreaths being laid by members of the Royal Family and senior politicians at the base of the war memorial

Today’s events will start with all detachments involved in the march forming up at the Cenotaph at 10:30am. Participants will then process out onto the Cenotaph at 10:50am. 

A two minute silence will then be held at 11am across the UK, beginning at the first stroke of Big Ben and marked by the firing guns from the King’s Troop on Horse Guards Parade. 

The end of the silence will then be marked by The Last Post, a short musical call which is historically used by the British Army to tell its soldiers to stand down. 

Wreaths will then be laid by members of the Royal Family and senior politicians at the base of the Cenotaph. 

Prayers will then be read out by the Lord Bishop of London, accompanied by a hymn sung by the Bands of the Guards Division.

The service will conclude at 11:25am and the Royal British Legion detachments will begin their march past the Cenotaph. 

They will march from the Cenotaph down towards Parliament Square before turning right along Great George Street.

The procession will then continue towards St James’s Park, turning right down Horse Guards Road. 

Participants will then salute the Guards Memorial before continuing over to the Horse Guards Parade where the march will end. 



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