The 1944 Alliance Normandy-Market Garden are the stakeholders of the MGVA memorial, it was one of the first memorials when the NMA was being built, we want to build a better modern memorial befitting to immortalise the memory of the Airborne & Land forces who took part in Operation “Market Garden” September 1944.
Saturday 8th November;
Annual act of remembrance at the Dutch war graves in Merridale Cemetery, Jeffcock Road, Bradmore Wolverhampton WV3 7AE. form-up 09:30hrs for 10:00hrs parade and service.
Sunday 9th November;
Remembrance Sunday, Veterans and Standard bearers form-up 10:10 ready for 10:40 march off in Colmore Row, near Eden place, off Victoria Square, Birmingham, B3 3SJ, to march onto Cathedral Square, Colmore Row, Birmingham B3 2QB. for annual Remembrance Day service.
Sunday 9th November;
Hagley Road Village; (HRV veterans’ group) will hold their annual Remembrance Day service on Sunday 9th November 2025, form-up 14:00 for 14:30 service with their own chaplain and in-house choir, everyone welcome, especially veterans and standard bearers to their service,
Address: Hagley Road Retirement Village; 336, Hagley Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B17 8BH.
Monday 10th November;
Remembrance at Swanshurst
09:30 arrival for tea/coffee and chat,
10:45 – I, (Doug Smith) will say something, welcome and greetings,
11:00 – proceed out on to the grass for act of remembrance with two minutes silence.
11:05 – back in-doors for tea/ coffee and entertainment and leave at about 12:00.
Swanshurst School, Brook Lane, Birmingham, B13 0TW.
Tuesday 11th November;
City of Birmingham annual Armistice Day service and parade, form-up 10:30hrs for 10:55hrs service at the Hall of Memory war memorial, Centenary Square, Birmingham, B1 2HF