Armistice Day

Remembrance Weekend Services in Ely 2023

Armistice Service – Saturday 11th November 2023 At 10.54am on Saturday 11th November 2023 there will be a short service at Ely War Memorial, Market Place to commemorate the signing of the Armistice on the 11th November 1918.  The service will include a 2 minute silence at 11.00am and the laying of wreaths by the Mayor of Ely, the ECDC Chairman, and …

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King’s Ely community remembers the fallen

Autumn sunlight shone over King’s Ely as students and staff commemorated Armistice Day. Instead of hundreds of people gathering inside Ely Cathedral for the school’s usual Act of Remembrance, King’s Ely marked the occasion with five simultaneous, separate, appropriately distanced outdoor services at different locations around the school campus. Earlier, King’s Ely Junior pupils and …

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Remembrance Sunday and Armistice Day commemorated at Ely Cathedral with Music and Light

A giant poppy is to be projected on the front of Ely Cathedral as part of the commemorations for Remembrance Sunday and Armistice Day this year. The installation will be lit from 6.00pm on Sunday 8th November through to Armistice Day evening, Wednesday 11th November.  The Dean of Ely, the Very Revd Mark Bonney said …

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