People are invited to a Remembrance event at the Memorial to the 22nd Battalion of the London Regiment (Queen’s), at 10am on Sunday, November 13.
Attendees will gather at the Old Jamaica Road memorial, near the junction with Abbey Street, to remember the service and sacrifice of those involved in armed conflicts.
The ceremony, scheduled for 10am so attendees can move on to other ceremonies at 11am, will last twenty minutes.
There will be prayers for the fallen, the Act of Remembrance, Last Post, a two minutes silence and Reveille, and a wreath-laying led by a representative of the Mayor of Southwark.
The monument itself is inscribed with the names of almost 1000 soldiers from this single battalion who died during World War One.
Lt Col Peter Swanson, honorary president of 6th (Bermondsey) Battalion Queen’s Royal Regiment Old Comrades Association, said: “Construction of the original Memorial was funded by public subscription so it is very much your Memorial and marks the sacrifice made by your forebears in two world wars. All are very welcome to be present at the ceremony to commemorate their sacrifice.”
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There is also a plaque attached to commemorate the fallen of 6th (Bermondsey) Battalion the Queen’s Royal Regiment during World War Two.
This Battalion was the successor unit to 22nd Londons after the reorganisation of the Territorial Army in the 1930s.
Further reorganisations of the Army since the 1960s have resulted in several regimental amalgamations and today the Queen’s Royal Regiment lives on within the Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment.
Associated with the Memorial are the cadets of 72 (Bermondsey) Detachment Army Cadet Force, based at Bacons College, who wear the badge of the Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment and are always on the lookout for young recruits.
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