East Kilbride and Hamilton will host the area’s two biggest acts of remembrance
Remembrance Sunday service at Bothwell Park cenotaph in Hamilton(Image: Hamilton Advertiser)
South Lanarkshire’s main Remembrance services will take place in East Kilbride, Larkhall and Hamilton on Sunday, November 9.
The service in Hamilton will centre around the war memorial in Bothwell Road park, and will be attended by Lady Susan Haughey, the lord lieutenant of Lanarkshire, and South Lanarkshire provost Margaret Cooper.
A parade of standard bearers, military and community organisations will assemble at the army reserve centre at Hatton House on Bothwell Road at 2.30pm, marching to the nearby war memorial and then returning to South Lanarkshire Council’s offices on Almada Street following the service.
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The Remembrance service in East Kilbride will be held at the war memorial off Graham Avenue, at 10.40am.
Among those attending will be depute lord lieutenant Angela Bonomy and South Lanarkshire councillor Geri Gray.
Larkhall will also host a service at Glenview war memorial, beginning at 10.30am on Remembrance Sunday, attended by depute lord lieutenant Sandy Wilkie and councillors Andy Carmichael, Ross Clark, Richard Nelson and Lesley McDonald.
North Lanarkshire’s two main services will be at the war memorial in Airdrie at 10.45am and at the Cenotaph in Duchess of Hamilton Park in Motherwell, at 3pm; with further events taking place at local memorials across Lanarkshire on this Remembrance Sunday which marks 80 years since the end of the Second World War.
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Representatives of the Lanarkshire Lieutenancy will once again lay wreaths at nearly 70 war memorials in the county over the Remembrance weekend, and lord lieutenant Lady Haughey said: “2309 Lanarkshire men and women lost their lives in the war. Their names are inscribed on memorials in towns and villages across the county, and we will pay our respects on Remembrance Sunday.
“We remember those who did not come home. We remember those who fought and who died and who suffered in body and in mind, so many of them until their last dying day. We acknowledge our incalculable debt to them.”
North Lanarkshire Council’s headquarters at the Civic Centre in Motherwell will be illuminated in red for Remembrance weekend and for Armistice Day on Tuesday, November 11.
Armed Forces charity Poppyscotland is inviting businesses and landmarks across the country to “light up red” in support of this year’s appeal, saying: “Any building with external lighting can take part simply by adding red gel filters to its lights, joining this striking visual display of remembrance.”
Nearly 200 destinations took part last year, and national Poppy Appeal manager Richard Todd said: “Light Up Red is always a fitting and poignant tribute to our armed forces community, and we know it means a lot to them to see this visible support for their contribution, past and present.
“We have been delighted by how this idea has captured people’s imaginations, and we are very grateful for the support of so many businesses and organisations.”
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