Remembrance Sunday – 8^th November 2026

Main Commemoration Event (Parade, Church Service at St Mary’s Salehurst, Wreath Laying Ceremony at High Street War Memorial).    Everyone is welcome to all or any part of the event.

10:00 – 10:20    Parade participants assemble at The Clappers Recreation Ground

10:25   Chairman of Robertsbridge Poppy Appeal  organises form up of the Parade on The Clappers, which then sets off to Salehurst Church (rolling road closures  cover Northbridge Street and Church Lane, re-opening when the Parade has passed; traffic lights allow parade to cross the A21)

10:40   Parade arrives at Church – Standards and Wreath Bearers line up at  the entrance.

10:50   Service begins (Vicar leads) – to include blessing of wreaths and 2 minute silence at 11am

11:30 (ish)   Service ends and parade forms up outside Church  and sets off to the Village War Memorial in the High Street.  Rolling road closures  cover Church Lane and Northbridge Street, and the High Street to Salehurst Primary School (traffic lights allow parade to cross the A21)

12:00 (ish)  Parade arrives at Village War Memorial and Standards, Wreath layers and Groups assemble in position. High Street from south of Station Road to Salehurst Primary School remains closed, the rest reopens.

12:20 (ish) Once ready, ceremony begins (RBL) with opening words, followed by the Last Post.  A maroon marks the start of a 2 minute silence, followed by Reveille, Kohima Prayer, laying of wreaths.

12:45 (ish)  Chairman Poppy Appeal announces total money raised by Poppy Appeal last year, and awards the Hayward Trophy for most money raised by a village organisation / group.

12:50 (ish) Parade is dismissed and falls out.  High Street is reopened to traffic as soon as the road is clear.

Road Closures – a rolling road closure (closed only when/where necessary) will cover The Clappers, Northbridge Street and Church Lane approximately 10:25 – 11:00 for the Parade to the Church.  Then 11:40 – 13:00 for the Parade back to the village, and the Wreath Laying at the War Memorial.  However, once the Parade has passed Station Road on the return journey, the High Street will only be closed between south of Station Road and Salehurst Primary School.  So traffic will be able to use Station Road, lower High Street, Northbridge Street etc. whilst the Ceremony takes place at the War Memorial (approximately 12:10 – 12:50).

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Armistice Day – Wednesday 11^th November 2026 (Eleventh Hour of the Eleventh Day of the Eleventh Month)

Short Wreath Laying Event (at High Street War Memorial) led by Robertsbridge Royal British Legion.  Everyone is welcome to attend.

10:45   Assemble at the War Memorial

10:56    Opening Words

10:59    Exhortation

11:00    2 minute silence (Maroon by Robertsbridge Bonfire Society marks the start and end of the silence)

11:02     Reveille, Kohima Prayer, laying of wreaths.

11:20 (ish)  Parade is dismissed and falls out.  High Street is reopened to traffic as soon as the road is clear.

Road closure – covering the High Street between just South of the junction with Station Road to the entrance to Salehurst Primary School (George Hill), from approximately 10:45 to 11:20.