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Nearly 3,000 people marched from Horse Guards Parade down Whitehall to the Cenotaph.
A catafalque party is a guard, usually of four people, that stands watch over the coffin and catafalque of a distinguished person or over a significant monument. [1] In Australia, a catafalque party acts as sentries for the memorial or cenotaph during annual Anzac day commemorations. [2]
The ceremony at the Cenotaph in November 2010. The National Service of Remembrance is held every year on Remembrance Sunday at the Cenotaph on Whitehall, London.It commemorates "the contribution of British and Commonwealth military and civilian servicemen and women in the two World Wars and later conflicts". [1]
Remembrance Sunday 2024 is being marked at London's Cenotaph with its annual wreath-laying ceremony, ahead of a two-minute silence at 11:00 GMT. Members of the Royal family will join politicians ...
Watch as Britain marks Remembrance Sunday at the Cenotaph on Whitehall, commemorating British military service members who died in both World Wars and later conflicts. The nation fell silent on ...
The Cenotaph and Eternal Flame. The cenotaph is a tall pillar constructed of Harcourt granite. Inscribed on its surface are the names of the defence forces, together with the theatres of war they served in. [68] Atop the cenotaph is a basalt sculpture of six servicemen carrying a bier with a corpse, draped by the Australian flag. The sculpture ...
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The Ceremonial Guard (CG; French: Garde de cérémonie) is an ad hoc military unit in the Canadian Armed Forces that performs the changing the guard ceremony on Parliament Hill and posts sentries at Rideau Hall, with the National War Memorial being sentried by the National Sentry Program (NSP), which is carried out by different regiments and other units in order of precedence throughout the ...