Multiple touching Remembrance Day services will be held in St Albans, Harpenden and London Colney this year. 

2022 will mark the 106 years since the start of the Battle of the Somme. Remembrance Day is celebrated every year on November 11, marking the end of WWI.

St Albans

This year, the Mayor of St Albans City and District will lead a Remembrance Day Parade and Service on Sunday, November 13. 

Councillor Geoff Harrison will be joined by leaders of major faiths at the event to honour the nation’s war dead. 

All are welcome to come and pay their respects to the members of Britain’s armed forces who lost their lives in two World Wars and other conflicts. 

The Mayor will lead a parade through the city centre at 10.30am with representatives of the Royal British Legion, air, sea and army cadets, the Guiding and Scout movements, the police and other uniformed services. 

In attendance will also be Honorary Aldermen and councillors from county, district, town and parish councils. 

The procession will walk to the War Memorial near St Peter’s Church for the start of the service at 10.50am. A bugler will play the last post which will be followed by a two-minute silence at 11am. 

After the National Anthem is sung, the Vice Lord-Lieutenant, Mayor and councillors will return in procession to a saluting stand where the Mayor will take the salute of the parade. 

Harpenden

In Harpenden, a parade will take place on November 13 from Rothamsted Park at 10.50am to the Warn Memorial, Church Green. 

A service of Remembrance will be held from 10.50am at the War Memorial. 

London Colney

London Colney will host a parade that leaves Caledon Community Centre at 10.45am on November 13. The parade will lead up to the War Memorial in High Street, where a service of Remembrance will be led by Rev’d Adrian Wood from the Baptist Church on Kings Road. 

After the service, the parade will come back to the Caledon Community Centre. 

Residents and those parading are invited back to the Caledon Community Centre afterwards for a cup of tea. 

A road closure will be in place from 10.30am to 11.45am from Caledon Community Centre, Caledon Road, Haseldine Road, and on the High Street from Haseldine Road to St. Anne’s Road.