Alcester
The Greig Hall will host the Alcester Royal British Legion Remembrance Concert on Saturday, 7th November, from 7.30pm with music from the Alcester Victoria Silver Band. Tickets £10 adults and £5 U16 from Guys Menswear.
On Remembrance Sunday, a parade will pass along the High Street to St Peter’s Church, where a service will start at 10.45am.
On Armistice Day (11th November) a Remembrance service will take place at the church at 10.30am.
Aston Cantlow
St John’s Church will hold a Remembrance service at 6pm on Sunday, 8th November.
Bidford
On Remembrance Sunday at 9am a parade group will gather in the car park opposite the old Legion club, heading off at 9.20am to march up the High Street to St Laurence Church. At 9.40am a service of Remembrance will begin in the church. Afterwards there will be wreath-laying at the war memorial, a short service, and two-minute silence at 11am.
A short service will be held at the war memorial on Wednesday, 11th November, at 10.45am.
Henley
On Sunday there will be a gathering at Ullenhall war memorial at 9.30am and, later, a Remembrance service will be held at St John’s Church.
The parade group will gather at St Nicholas Church and will be ready to leave at 10.30am, arriving at St John’s Church for the service at 10.45am.
Shipston
The RBL parade group will gather at 10am in High Street and set off at 10.45am towards the war memorial in Church Street.
During the service, wreaths will be laid and the names of the fallen will be read out. This will be followed by a two-minute silence.
Following the service, you can join the RBL at The Horseshoe for refreshments.
Temporary road closures will be in place from 9am to 12.30pm.
Stratford
On Saturday, 7th November, a service will take place at Stratford Town FC in Knights Lane.
A Remembrance service will be held, along with a two-minute silence, at the Garden of Remembrance at 11am on both Sunday, 8th November, and Wednesday, 11th November.
A Commonwealth Memorial event will be held at Stratford Cemetery to pay respects to the Canadian airmen who died while serving with 22 Operational Training Unit which was stationed nearby. This will take place at 4pm, which is 11am Eastern Daylight Time in Canada.
On Sunday, 8th November, Stratford Boat Club members will come together to remember those who died in world wars and other conflicts past and current.
This year, the club’s juniors will recite a Roll of Honour for those listed on the Club’s memorial.
At 10.45am the whole club will stop to meet around the club’s memorial when wreaths will be laid by one of the club’s oldest members and one of the youngest.
The Great War in Words, Brook Arts Hub (7pm on 6th November) and at Rother Street Arts House (7.30pm on 8th November) features prose, poetry and songs of the First World War. Tickets £10 from venues’ websites.
Wellesbourne
On Sunday there will be a service by the war memorial at St Peter’s Church at 11am. Scouts and guides will march to the church.
Wootton Wawen
On 11th November, there will a two-minute silence at 11am at the village war memorial.
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