Liverpool City Council's annual Remembrance Service will take place on Sunday 12 November on the plateau at St George's Hall. The day commemorate's the contribution of British and Commonwealth military and civilian servicemen and women involved in the two world wars and later conflicts. We've been on the streets of Liverpool to find out what the day means for you.
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00:00 Liverpool City Council's annual remembrance service will take place on
00:04 Sunday 12th of November on the plateau at St. George's Hall. The day
00:08 commemorates a contribution of British and Commonwealth military and civilian
00:13 service men and women involved in the two world wars and later conflicts. We've
00:18 been on the streets of Liverpool to find out what the day means for you.
00:23 Well it's very, I think it's very sad but I always watch it on the telly, I
00:29 always watch the service of the morning going back to when me dad and me mam was
00:34 alive because me dad used to salute them you know and it's instilled in you
00:41 hasn't it? So yeah I do, I think a lot about it.
00:45 Well I used to come to St. George's Hall as a child because me dad brought us down
00:50 every Remembrance Day because my dad was in the war so he used to take all of us,
00:55 we had five children at that time and me dad always brought us down to St. George's
00:59 Hall and I do think it's a lovely thing. No I mean I don't come to the
01:04 cenotaph because I'll be at church on a Sunday morning. Yeah I mean I haven't got
01:11 me poppy on, I don't usually wear a poppy but I'm all for it. You know they were
01:18 very brave men and women and many of them gave their lives so you know I'm
01:25 pro poppy, I'm British and proud of it. Remembrance Sunday means to me that
01:37 the war years ago my great-grandfather was in the war and he fought in Germany
01:46 and yeah so that's why it's Remembrance Sunday is important to me. I mean like I
01:53 was 80 in April so to me I don't remember the war because I was born
02:01 during that I was I think I was about two and then so
02:07 it's sort of instilled in you doesn't it? Yeah and I do watch it every single year.
02:15 Yeah. Thousands of people are expected to gather on Lime Street for the service
02:21 which has the theme Liverpool remembers and involves faith and community leaders
02:25 together with the armed forces and war veterans. At 11 a.m. the traditional
02:31 firing of the gun will signify the start of the two-minute silence with another
02:35 to mark its conclusion. Following the silence the traditional wreath laying
02:41 and service by key civic military and religious leaders and cadets the parade
02:45 will then march from St. George's Plateau to salute the cenotaph. The Port of
02:50 Liverpool, Cunard and Royal Ivor buildings along with the Liverpool
02:54 Parish Church, St. George's Hall and the Town Hall will be lit up red from Friday
02:58 10th to Sunday the 12th of November to mark the Remembrance weekend.