Remembrance Day and Remembrance Sunday in Edinburgh 2013

Submitted by edg on Sat, 9 Nov '13 9.57pm

This Sunday, many people will gather at remembrance services ahead of the two minute silence observed on Remembrance Day on Monday 11 November at 11am. Services range from the Canongate Kirk which will be supported by the Lowland Band of The Royal Regiment, to a joint Remembrance Sunday service of Edinburgh's Universities at the Playfair Hall and quadrangle.

Media attention will be focussed on the Royal British Legion Scotland's Edinburgh Parade and Service of Remembrance at Edinburgh City Chambers. Here, the First Minister traditionally joins Edinburgh's Lord Provost for Scotland's national remembrance ceremony at the Stone of Remembrance, for laying of wreaths and two minutes of silence. The church service follows at St Giles Cathedral.

On Monday, at the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh month, Remembrance Day's Two Minute Silence is observed across the country, from workplaces to the Scottish Parliament building.

Remembrance Week began this past Monday (4th November) with a ceremony in East Princes Street Garden at the Scott monument with numerous small crosses, with personal messages written on them, planted in a "Field of Remembrance".

As in previous years, MSP Keith Brown and Edinburgh's Lord Provost Donald Wilson took part in the traditional laying of wreaths after the official Opening Ceremony.

This year's ceremony also marked the first time regimental and veterans' organisations and associations raised their Standards in the garden.