Hundreds of people will gather at the Remembrance Sunday service in Oxford to pay tribute to those who died in the two world wars and other conflicts.

Oxford's lord mayor 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.

Military units, organisations, and community groups will gather at the junction of Beaumont Street and St Giles' at 10am, before marching along St Giles to the war memorial from 10.30am.

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The service will start at 10.45am with a two-minute silence at 11am.

Mr Rowley said earlier: "Every year Oxford observes Remembrance Sunday to commemorate those who have lost their lives in war and conflict.

"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."

(Image: Oxford Mail) 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.

Road closures and parking suspensions will be in place from 12.01am to 2pm on November 10.

St Giles will be closed and there will be no parking during the Remembrance Sunday event.

While the service in St Giles is the largest in Oxfordshire, there will also be Remembrance Sunday services at towns and villages across the county.

An Armistice Day service will take place on Monday, starting at 10.55am, on the landing at the top of the stairs in Oxford Town Hall.

(Image: Ed Nix) The lord mayor will lead the service, which will include a two-minute silence at 11am.

A wreath-laying ceremony by the Oxford-Leiden twin city link group will be held in Leiden Square, at the Westgate Centre tomorrow.

Oxford’s first twin link, with the Dutch city of Leiden, was established immediately after World War Two in 1946.

The Princess of Wales is to attend both the Remembrance Sunday service at the Cenotaph and the Festival of Remembrance at the Royal Albert Hall this weekend, Buckingham Palace has announced.

It marks the next significant step in her gradual return to public royal duties as she prepares to join the King and the Prince of Wales to honour the nation’s war dead.

The announcement comes after Prince William candidly spoke of how 2024 has been “brutal” and “probably been the hardest year in my life”, with both the Princess and the King diagnosed with cancer.

(Image: Jonathan Brady/PA) The Princess of Wales, who revealed eight months ago she had an undisclosed form of the disease, will attend the annual Festival of Remembrance at the Royal Albert Hall on Saturday evening and then the national commemoration at the Cenotaph on Sunday.

It will be the first time she has carried out two consecutive days of public official engagements since the start of the year.

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