Remembrance 2025: United Across the Isle of Wight

This November, the Island came together in a powerful display of remembrance, honouring our veterans, active service members and those who made the ultimate sacrifice. From small village services to the county parade in Newport, these events reflected the strength of our community and our shared respect for service.

🕊️ County Service – Newport

At the heart of our Island’s commemorations was the large county-level service at St Thomas’s Square, Newport. On Sunday, 9 November, from 10:25am, the parade and service brought together civic leaders, armed forces personnel and Islanders of all ages. A particularly moving detail: the Last Post was played on a historic silver bugle once carried into battle by the Isle of Wight Rifles during the Gallipoli campaign.

🏘️ Community-wide Services

Across towns and villages from Cowes to Ventnor, Ryde to Yarmouth, local services offered quieter, but equally meaningful moments of reflection. A full list of remembrance and armistice services was published for 2025. These gatherings reinforce that remembrance isn’t just a big central parade; it happens where people live, in local halls, churches and war memorials.

📜 Why It Matters

The Isle of Wight has a proud military and civic heritage — from the local regiments of the Rifles to wartime island defences, our landscape and history are shaped by service. By gathering each year we keep those stories alive, not just as history but as living memory.When the bugle rang, and the silence was observed in Newport, it was more than ceremony — it was a link across generations, a reminder that communities matter, and that service never goes unnoticed.

🙏 A Thank You to All

To every standard-bearer, band-member, service-person, volunteer and attendee — thank you. By turning out, you honoured sacrifice, strengthened communit

y and reminded us all what remembrance truly means.

Together, we showed the Island’s heart.Together, we said: We will remember.This November, the Island came together in a powerful display of remembrance, honouring our veterans, active service members and those who made the ultimate sacrifice. From small village services to the county parade in Newport, these events reflected the strength of our community and our shared respect for service.