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Citizen magazine Winter 2024 - text version - Celebrating our veterans
Published: 6 December 2024
Celebrating our veterans
As a community it’s critical that we continue to commemorate and remember veterans of our Armed Forces for their immense sacrifices in conflicts all around the world.
In this spirit, the council has held two annual events to commemorate our Armed Forces, both past and present over the past few months. Back on Monday 9 September the council marked the Battle of Britain, paying tribute
to the Royal Air Force pilots whose heroics are often regarded as the “turning point” in World War II.
Members of the public joined the Lord Mayor, Sheriff, serving airmen and airwomen from RAF Marham and other distinguished guests in a wreath laying ceremony remembering what then Prime Minister Winston Churchill described as “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few”.
On Remembrance Sunday (10 November) the council also led the city’s commemorations for the remembrance period.
A sacred time for many in our community as we joined the wider country coming together in gratitude, solidarity, and respect to remember all those who have served and died in conflict.
Reverend Canon Edward Carter, of St Peter Mancroft, led the service of remembrance, which included laying wreaths at Norwich War Memorial and prayers, followed by The Last Post (the traditional final salute to the fallen) marking the start of the national two-minute silence.
