Remembrance Day 2024
ORGANIZED BY ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION, MERRITT BRANCH 096
Monday, November 11 | 10:45 am
Laying of Wreaths | 11:00 am
Cenotaph (by the Merritt Civic Centre)
On Remembrance Day, we commemorate the brave men and women who gave their lives fighting for our freedom. In honour of these fallen soldiers, the Royal Canadian Legion Merritt Branch 096 invites everyone to attend this annual Remembrance Day ceremony.
The ceremony will take place outside by the cenotaph. There will be barricades set up so that the immediate area around the cenotaph is clear and the street where the Legion’s color party marches is free from obstructions.
Businesses, organizations and individuals may lay their own wreaths this year if they wish to do so. There will be an open house at the Legion Lounge after ceremony. Everyone is welcome to attend. Businesses, organizations and individuals wishing to purchase a wreath please call the Legion at 250-378-5631 or email Legion096@outlook.com.
PROGRAM (tentative)
SERVICE
Cenotaph – A vigil shall be mounted on the cenotaph 15 minutes prior to the service,
10:50 am | Color Party marches to cenotaph along with drummer and pipers and RCMP
10:57 am | O Canada – The flag is to be raised while O Canada is played (Ross Fairweather)
- Opening Remarks – MC Roger White
- President – read a Poem
- Prayer Pastor Matthew Westerguard
- Last Post (Bugler) Mason Hintz– 11:00 to 11:02 hours just prior to commencement of the two minutes period of silence
- Silence (two Minutes)
- Reveille – Bugler – Mason Hintz
- Lament (Piper) Duncan Ross
- Act of Remembrance – Nick Tolerton
They shall grow not old
As we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them,
Nor the years condemn. Response
At the going down of the sun
and in the norming
We will remember them.
- Response – We will remember them
- Choir – Play music – Arlene & Roger
- In Flanders Fields – Nick Tolerton
- Wreath Laying: It is imperative that a wreath representing Canada be laid before all others
- Blessing – Pastor Matthew Westerguard
- Color Party lays poppies, then RCMP, then veterans who are standing near cenotaph with Others who are doing ceremony, finally those who are doing ceremony at cenotaph
- National Anthem – God Save The King
- Color Party marches off – along with RCMP and Veterans and Legion Members
- The general public will then come and lay their poppies