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Remembrance Sunday 2024

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Ormskirk Parish Church hosts the annual West Lancashire Civic Remembrance Sunday Service. Following an opening service held at St Anne’s Catholic Church in the town, the procession moves to the War Memorial, originally at the Comrades of the Great War Club on Southport Road but moved to Coronation Park on the demolition of the club, where an Act of Remembrance takes place. Following that, it moves to the Parish Church for the formal Service, including the sounding of the Last Post, Silence and Reveille/Rouse at 11:00 a.m.

Poppy-themed hanging on the pulpit
The Derby Chapel has served as a War Memorial Chapel since the Great War; its East Window commemorates all the nations which were Britain’s Allies at that time, including the USA, Argentina, Montenegro, Greece, Italy, France, Japan, Russia, Belgium, Portugal, Romania and Serbia
Knitted poppy-based decorations adorn the church interior for Remembrance Sunday; the theme is continued on the iron gates and finials of the churchyard retaining wall.