Hatters will pay respects at the Cenotaph in Riverside Veterans Memorial Park this morning for the city's annual Remembrance Day ceremony. A cadet bows their head in prayer during the 2024 ceremony in Medicine Hat.--NEWS FILE PHOTO
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The city will host its annual Remembrance Day service at the Esplanade Arts & Heritage Centre this morning with doors opening at 8:30 a.m. and the ceremony at 9:25 a.m.
Following the ceremony, veterans, service members, cadets and members of the Royal Canadian Legion Robertson Memorial Medicine Hat Branch No. 17 will participate in the annual Remembrance Day March along First Street SE to Riverside Veterans Memorial Park, where a ceremony will be held at the Cenotaph at 11 a.m.
In Redcliff the annual March from the Legion to Memorial Park starts at 9:45 a.m. with services in the Parkside School gym beginning at 10 a.m.
The wreath laying service will commence afterwards at the Cenotaph in Memorial Park at 11 a.m.
In Brooks, the Remembrance Day ceremony begins at 10:20 a.m. with the formation of the parade on the Majestic Lawn and will begin its march down West Street at 10:30 a.m.
The parade will conclude with a ceremony at Civic Square.
West Street will be closed from 10 a.m. to noon for the service.
See tomorrow’s News for full coverage of local Remembrance Day ceremonies.
