Uckfield Remembrance Services 2024

Uckfield will mark Remembrance Sunday and Armistice Day with several commemorative events and fundraising activities this November.

In the build-up to November 10 and 11, when memorial events and services will take place, there are many sites around town where you can buy poppies. All proceeds from donation boxes go directly to the Royal British Legion (RBL), with Uckfield having a local representative who is in charge of running the Poppy Appeal in the town.

Please support the Appeal wherever you can and give generously, as all profits made by the RBL will go into their work supporting veterans in a wide variety of ways.

Poppy boxes and collection tins are in various shops and venues around the town, including here at the Uckfield Town Council Office.

Alternatively, you can also purchase an enamel pin or more specialist items directly from the Poppy Shop of the RBL here: https://www.poppyshop.org.uk/collections/poppy-pins-brooches

Remembrance Service Dates

Uckfield will host three main Remembrance Service events between Sunday 10 November and Monday 11 November, which are as follows:

Eugene Seghers Memorial – Sunday 10 November 2024

Members of the Royal British Legion and local residents will gather by the memorial, which is in the car park of the Highlands Inn, from 10:30am on Sunday 10 November to pay their respects and lay a wreath in honour of the late Belgian Fighter Pilot Eugene Seghers.

Annual Parade and Remembrance Service – Sunday 10 November 2024

The annual parade takes place on the afternoon of Sunday 10 November, and includes the Remembrance Service which will take place at The Church of Holy Cross, Belmont Road, Uckfield at 3:00pm.

The parade will form at the north end of Luxford Car Park and will proceed to The Church of the Holy Cross for the Remembrance Service via Civic Approach, Uckfield High Street and Church Street. After the service and laying of the wreaths, the parade will reform and return to Luxford Car Park via Church Street, Uckfield High Street and Library Way where the Mayor of Uckfield, Councillor Karen Bedwell, will take the salute.

We ask residents and road users to be aware that rolling road closures will be in place on Uckfield High Street between 2:30pm and 3:00pm, and then again between 3:45pm and 4:30pm. Diversions will be in place, and we advise all residents and road users to make alternative arrangements in advance of the day if they are planning to travel through or around Uckfield town centre.

The itinerary of the Annual Parade and Remembrance Service is as follows:

1400 hrs         Guests and participants meet at Luxfords Car Park (TN22 1AL)

1425 hrs         Form Parade

1435 hrs         Parade departs for the Church of the Holy Cross

1500 hrs         Remembrance Service at The Church of the Holy Cross

1550 hrs         Exit Church, wreath laying and playing of the Last Post

1610 hrs         Parade reforms and returns to Luxfords Car Park via Library Way where the Town Mayor will take the salute

On dispersal, participants in the parade are invited to refreshments kindly supplied by Uckfield Town Council at the Civic Centre Uckfield (TN22 1AE).

Armistice Day – Monday 11 November 2024

There will be a short service and the firing of maroons at the War Memorial at the Church of the Holy Cross at 11:00am on the morning of Armistice Day.

Information on these three events will also appear in your November 2024 edition of Uckfield Matters, within the Town Council’s pages of ‘The Voice’.