Guide to services this Remembrance Sunday

SERVICES of remembrance will be held in Henley and the surrounding area on Sunday as follows:

HENLEY

THERE will be the usual service outside the town hall at 11am, which will be led by Rev Jeremy Tayler, the rector of Henley with Remenham.

Richard Pinches, chairman of the Henley and Peppard branch of the Royal British Legion, will read For the Fallen, by Laurence Binyon.

The Last Post will be sounded before a two-minute silence followed by the Reveille.

Richard Pinches will read the Kohima Epitaph and after prayers led by Rev Tayler, Jerusalem will be sung.

Town clerk Sheridan Jacklin-Edward will then give a Bible reading before more prayers.

Mayor Tom Buckley will then give his address and his three cadets, Cadet Corporal Monty Ward, Cadet Corporal Kiera De Sousa and Cadet Corporal Ralphie Barron, will give readings.

This will be followed by the act of commitment, the Lord’s Prayer, the National Anthem and a blessing.

Wreaths will be laid on the town hall steps by David Woodgate DL, deputy lieutenant of Oxfordshire, Cllr Buckley, Henley MP Freddie van Mierlo, Councillor Stefan Gawrysiak, on behalf of Oxfordshire County Council, Councillor Ken Arlett, on behalf of South Oxfordshire District Council and John Green, on behalf of the Royal British Legion.

Wreaths from other groups, including the army, sea and air cadets, Henley Fire Service, Henley Lions Club and the Henley Society will be laid in pairs.

There will be a fly-past courtesy of RAF Benson prior to the service.

Following the service there will be a parade and light refreshments will be served in the town hall.

Market Place will be closed from 10.15am to noon for the duration of the service and parade.

Remembrance services will also take place at Christ Church in Reading Road at 9.30am and the regular service at St Mary’s Church in Hart Street will take place from 8am to 9.30am.

BENSON

CURRENT and former service personnel will join residents of the village and neighbouring Ewelme in a parade that will assemble in High Street at 10.30am. The road will be closed from that time.

At 10.43am the parade will set off for the war memorial at the junction of Oxford Road and Church Road. The service of remembrance will begin at 10.53am and the names of the servicemen and women who died while serving at RAF Benson since 1945 will be read aloud.

At 10.59am the Exhortation will be read. At 11am, the Last Post will be sounded by a bugler, the standards and banners lowered and spectators shall stand.

A two-minute silence will then be observed, followed by Reveille. A fly-past from RAF Benson is scheduled to take place at 11.04am.

This will be followed by the laying of wreaths. There will then be a blessing by Rev Patrick Gilday.

The service at the memorial ends at 11.20am and there will be a church service at St Helen’s from 11.30am to 12.15pm.

BIX AND PISHILL

A JOINT service will be held at 10.45am at St James’s Church in Bix.

Residents are encouraged to encouraged to arrive by 10.40am to watch a fly-over performed by RAF Benson, weather permitting.

CAVERSHAM

AT St Andrew’s Church in Albert Road, Eucharist will be sung, followed by the remembrance liturgy, starting at 10am.

At St Peter’s Church in Church Road the 9.30am service will include prayers in the Memorial Chapel.

At St Margaret’s Church in Church Road its remembrance service will take place from 10.45am with a ceremony at the war memorial gates in the churchyard.

At St John’s Church, the 9.30am service will be a little shorter than usual so that people can attend the service at the war memorial in Christchurch Meadows.

A service will be held at 10am at St Anne’s in South View where the deceased of the two world wars will be remembered. There will also be a blessing of the graves at 2.30pm at the cemetery, off All Hallows Road.

At Caversham Baptist Church in Prospect Street, a service will be held from 10.30am to 12 noon. There will be two minutes’ silence at 11am.

There will also be a remembrance service at the war memorial in Christchurch Meadows, which begins at 10.45am.

CHECKENDON

AT 10.55am the congregation will gather at the lych gate war memorial at St Peter and St Paul’s Church where the names of the fallen from Checkendon and Stoke Row will be read out.

The service will be led by Rev Canon Kevin Davies.

DUNSDEN

A SERVICE of the Eucharist will be sung at All Saints’ Church in Dunsden at 9am and followed by a remembrance service at the war memorial on Dunsden Green at 10.15am.

EMMER GREEN

AT St Barnabas’s Church in Grove Road, there is an online and in-person service from 9.30am to 10.30am and a family communion from 11.15am to noon.

FINGEST

THERE will be a short service of remembrance at St Bartholomew’s Church at 9am.

FRIETH

THERE will be a remembrance reflection, prayers and talk at the church of St John the Evangelist at 10am.

GORING

AT St Thomas’s Church in Manor Road, there will be a remembrance service at 10.50am.

HAMBLEDEN

THERE will be a remembrance service at the Church of St Mary the Virgin at 10.50am.

HARPSDEN

ST Margaret of Antioch in Harpsden Way will hold a remembrance service at 10.15am.

IPSDEN

A REMEMBRANCE Sunday service will be held in St Mary’s Church in North Stoke from 10.45am.

Wreath laying will take place at Ipsden village war memorial afterwards at noon, followed by a curry lunch in North Stoke village hall.

KIDMORE END

A SERVICE will be held at the war memorial at St John the Baptist Church in Wood Lane. Visitors are asked to assemble at 10.50am.

After the service at the memorial, there will be another service inside the church.

MAPLEDURHAM

ST Margaret’s Church will hold a church service at 11.15am.

MEDMENHAM

THERE will be a wild church remembrance service at Pullingshill Wood at 2.30pm.

NETTLEBED

A REMEMBRANCE day parade will take place in Nettlebed on Sunday.

The parade will meet at the bus shelter at 10.30am and then walk to St Bartholomew's Church.

Following a short ceremony of remembrance, there will be a service at the church.

PEPPARD AND ROTHERFIELD GREYS

RESIDENTS of both villages are welcome to a service of remembrance around the war memorial at All Saints’ Church in Peppard from 10.50am. Chairs will be provided for those who need them.

REMENHAM

A SERVICE will be held at St Nicholas’s Church at 10.55am.

SHIPLAKE

A SERVICE will be held at St Peter’s and St Paul’s Church at 10.50am. This will be followed by a service at the war memorial in Shiplake Cross from noon.

Parents and families of pupils of Shiplake College can attend the school’s remembrance service in the Great Hall from 10.45am.

SONNING

A SERVICE will be held at St Andrew’s Church in Thames Street at 10.30am, conducted by Rev Jamie Taylor.

SONNING COMMON

A REMEMBRANCE Day service will be held at Sonning Common village hall.

The hall will open at 10.45am for a 10.50am start. Two minutes’ silence will be observed at 11am, followed by words of remembrance given by retired Lieutenant Commanders Alex and Gillian Manning.

A poppy wreath will be installed in memory of former Chiltern Edge pupils Francis (Fred) Slough, Cyrus Thatcher and Barry Weston.

SOUTH STOKE

AT St Andrew’s Church, there will be a remembrance service at 10.50am.

STOKE ROW

AT St John the Evangelist in School Lane a remembrance service will be held at 9.30am.

WARGRAVE

A REMEMBRANCE day service will be held at St Mary’s Church in Wargrave on Sunday at 10am.

It will be followed by a Royal British Legion service at 10.45am on Mill Green.

All are welcome.

WATLINGTON

ST Leonard’s Church in Watlington will hold a remembrance service with Holy Communion at 9.30am.

A parade and march past will take place along High Street to the memorial cross. Participants should meet at the town hall by 10.30am to take part. This will be followed by wreath laying by representatives of Watlington organisations.

There will be a service of remembrance and music from the Watlington Concert Band and a helicopter fly-past by RAF Benson at about 10.45am.

In neighbouring Pyrton, there will be a service of remembrance at St Mary’s Church at 9.15am.

WHITCHURCH/WHITCHURCH HILL

RESIDENTS of both villages are invited to attend a service at the war memorial in Whitchurch Hill from 10.45am to 11.15am.

WOODCOTE

VILLAGERS will observe the service of remembrance at 10.50am at the war memorial followed by a remembrance service in St Leonard’s Church.