Oxford is preparing to hold its Remembrance Sunday service to honour those who have lost their lives at war.
The Lord Mayor of Oxford, councillor Mike Rowley, in partnership with the Oxford City branch of the Royal British Legion, is set to host the service at the War Memorial in St Giles on November 10.
Military units, organisations, and community groups will gather at the junction of Beaumont Street and St Giles' at 10am, marching up St Giles from 10.30am.
The service will start at 10.45am with a two-minute silence at 11am.
"In this 80th anniversary year of D-Day, we think of the sacrifices that were made to free Europe from the most murderous of tyrannies, honour all who defend us today, and recommit ourselves to the pursuit of peace here and throughout the world."
Anyone attending the service who needs British Sign Language interpretation will be able to find the interpreter on the junction of St Giles’ and Woodstock Road to the west of the dais.
An Armistice Day service will take place on Monday, November 11, starting at 10.55am, on the landing at the top of the stairs in Oxford Town Hall.
A wreath-laying ceremony by the Oxford-Leiden twin city link group will be held in Leiden Square, Westgate Oxford, on Saturday, November 9.
Oxford’s first twin link, with the Dutch city of Leiden, was established immediately after World War Two in 1946.
The Royal British Legion flag will fly above Oxford Town Hall from Monday, November 4, to Sunday, November 10, when the flag will be changed to the Union Jack until after King Charles III's birthday on Thursday, November 14.
St Giles will be closed and there will be no parking during the Remembrance Sunday event.
The pavement on Banbury Road, opposite the war memorial, will be closed and members of the public are advised to follow pedestrian diversions or use Woodstock Road.
Banbury Road from its junction with Parks Road to its junction with St Giles, Beaumont Street from its junction with St John Street to its junction with St Giles, Keble Road, and the junction from Keble Road to Blackhall Road will also all be closed, as will Magdalen Street East and West.
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