Remembrance Sunday: City to fall silent as events held to honour Doncaster's war dead

The city is set to come together to pay its respects to servicemen and women at numerous events on Sunday.

A number of poppy installations across the borough have been designed and installed by Doncaster Council teams in preparation for Remembrance Day.

In the city centre, tributes will be led by Mayor of Doncaster, Ros Jones and Civic Mayor, Councillor Ian Pearson for Remembrance Sunday.

Remembrance Sunday, on 13 November, will begin with a Service of Remembrance at the war memorial on Bennetthorpe from 10.30am. This will be followed by a parade to the Minster of St George, where there will be a Service of Remembrance at noon.

A short service for Armistice Day, to observe the national two minute silence at 11am, was held outside the Mansion House on Friday with a service including a bugler playing the Last Post and Reveille and the traditional Act of Homage.

Members of the public are welcome to join the Service of Remembrance at the war memorial and Doncaster Minster.

There will also be services at war memorials and churches across Doncaster on Sunday. This year’s event marks the 40th anniversary of the 1982 Falklands War.

At Conisbrough Castle on Saturday between 10am and 5pm, a free event will see wartime re-enactments and displays, Conisbrough Royal British Legion, a helicopter cockpit from South Yorkshire Aircraft Museum and local 1940s vintage vocalist Airborne Angel.

At 5pm, the Castle will be lit with illuminations and wartime projections, turned on by Doncaster Afghanistan war hero Ben Parkinson.

Meanwhile, pupils at The Laurel Academy in Mexborough have been busy making several art installations both inside and outside of school.

Students have made 250 poppies for a school display, creating a moving art piece taking inspiration from the installation artwork Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red. It has been displayed in the school grounds for all pupils and staff to see, remember and give thanks to those who sacrificed so much.

Pupils have also been working outside of lessons to paint a moving mural that has been displayed in the centre of the school.

A spokesman said: “Pupils have worked so hard and are so proud of the art they have created.”