Marking Remembrance across Harborough district

The services will be attended by civic leaders with all events open to members of public who wish to attend.

Harborough District Council is joining the community in making Remembrance tributes.

The Union Flag will fly from the flagpole on The Symington Building on Remembrance Sunday (9 November) and Armistice Day (11 November) and will be temporarily lowered for the two-minute silence on Armistice Day.

The council has also put up over 100 Union flags in Market Harborough town centre in support of the Royal British Legion’s Poppy Appeal 2025. 

Sunday 9 November, Remembrance Sunday

Market Harborough

The Deputy Lieutenant of Leicestershire, members of the Royal British Legion, and the Chairman and Leader of Harborough District Council, will attend Market Harborough’s primary Service of Remembrance at St Dionysius Church, adjacent to the High Street, on Sunday 9 November. The service starts at 10am, be seated by 9.50am. 

The service will be followed, at approximately 10.40am, by a parade along the High Street to the war memorial where the Act of Remembrance and two-minute silence will take place prior to 11am. The parade will include a marching band, local cadet units, Scouts, Guides, Brownies and Cubs. A contingent of Armed Forces veterans from across the local area will also attend.

Lutterworth

In Lutterworth, St Mary’s Church is holding a Remembrance Service which will start at 9.30am. This will be followed by the annual parade which will march off at 10.30am from the Wycliffe Rooms. It will then proceed to the Memorial Gardens for a Service of Remembrance and a wreath laying ceremony. Harborough District Council's Armed Forces Champion, Cllr Jo Asher, will attend and will lay a wreath on behalf of the people of the district. 

The Kibworth Band and Kibworth Youth Band will be playing during the annual Kibworth Remembrance parade which starts at 10.30am at Grammar School Hall followed by a service at St Wilfred's Church.

Broughton Astley 

In Broughton Astley, the annual Remembrance parade will start from at Thomas Estley College - check locally for start details.

Tuesday 11 November, Armistice Day

Market Harborough

A short Service of Remembrance will take place in Market Harborough near the war memorial on the Market Square, to mark the moment when the guns fell silent on the Western Front in 1918.

This service, which will be conducted by the Chair of the Market Harborough Branch of the Royal British Legion, Stewart Harrison and the Reverend Phil Bryson, will include a two-minute silence at 11am. Wreaths will then be laid at the Memorial Gardens gate.

Local residents and businesses are advised that the period of silence will begin and end with a loud noise as a maroon is fired. 

Lutterworth

In Lutterworth, the Royal British Legion will be holding a short service at the war memorial gardens, starting at 10.50, to mark the two-minute silence.

For further details of ceremonial events across the district please check arrangements in your local town or village with your parish council or place of worship.

More information about the council’s support for the Armed Forces community can be found at: www.harborough.gov.uk/armedforces