THIS YEARS annual remembrance service and parade in Coventry will take place on November 10, where people can gather and remember all those who lost their lives in conflict.
The parade will start at 10.45am from The Cenotaph in the War Memorial Park and will be led by The Right Reverend Ruth Worsley, Acting Bishop of Coventry.
At 3pm, the city’s civic party will take part in a short service at the Garden of Remembrance and Civilian Monument in London Road Cemetery to remember those lost in the city during the Coventry Blitz over the night of November 14 1940.
West Orchards Shopping Centre will be hosting the Poppy Drop on November 11, beginning at 10.45 on level three of the shopping centre.
Veterans and guests will observe the two-minute silence at 11am, as 4000 poppies fall from the centre’s dome.
The Lord Mayor of Coventry, Councillor Mal Mutton, will also be releasing a video speaking of the Blitz and Coventry’s transformation into the one of the world’s leading cities of peace and reconciliation.
This will be released on November 14 and will be available to view on Coventry city council’s webpages and YouTube.
