Tomorrow is Armistice Day and on Remembrance Sunday (November 13), the country will stop to commemorate the sacrifice of our armed forces, past and present. Remembrance events will be held in Ealing on Friday and Sunday.

Friday

Armistice Day marks the end of the First World War in 1918 and at 11am a two-minute silence is held at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month to remember those who died. This will take place up and down the country on Friday, including outside Ealing Town Hall.

Sunday Services

1. Ealing War Memorial, Ealing Green
2. Greenford War Memorial, Pitzhanger Manor
3. Southall War Memorial and St John's Church
4. Acton War Memorial, Acton Care Home

Remembrance Sunday is held on the nearest Sunday to Armistice Day and tends to be when most memorial services are held and it has now come to represent remembrance of all those who have lost lives or made sacrifices because of war, as well as those who put their lives at risk now.

Mayor of Ealing, Cllr Mohinder Midha, will attend the Remembrance Sunday parade and ceremony at Ealing War Memorial on Ealing Green, in front of Pitzhanger Manor, with a two-minute silence at 11am.

The King's representative, Deputy Lieutenant Richard Kornicki, will attend the service, along with Council leader Peter Mason and the council's chief executive, Tony Clements.

Deputy mayor Cllr Hitesh Tailor, and deputy council leader Cllr Deirdre Costigan, will attend the Greenford ceremony and lay wreaths at Greenford War Memorial.

The last mayor of Ealing, Munir Ahmed, will attend and lay a wreath at the Southall War Memorial. A crowd also traditionally gathers in Manor Park at the Southall War Memorial for a service at 11am. The congregation then heads to St John's Church in Church Road for a short Remembrance Sunday service. 

A private ceremony is also usually held in the same week in Acton, with the mayor attending Acton Care Home. The centre was formerly Acton Cottage Hospital and has the Acton War Memorial in its gardens.

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Armistice Day

The guns, cannon and battle cries of the First World War fell silent across Europe on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918. The Armistice treaty was signed at 5am in France on November 11, 1918. Six hours later, at 11am, the war officially ended (although some fighting did actually continue on the edges of the conflict). After four years of fighting, The Great War was finally 'over'.

The first Remembrance Day was held in 1919 throughout Britain and the Commonwealth. Originally called Armistice Day, it commemorated the end of hostilities the previous year. It came to symbolise the end of the war and provide an opportunity to remember those who had died.