Submariners from Faslane will join hundreds of serving and veteran crewmen at this year’s Submariners’ Remembrance Service and Parade in London.
The unique service and parade is held each year to honour submariners of all generations who have ‘Crossed the Bar’ in service of their country.
The service and parade will take place this Sunday at Middle Temple Gardens on the Embankment.
This year the salute will be taken by Rear Admiral John Weale, who is both Flag Officer Scotland Northern Ireland and Rear Admiral Submarines, based at HM Naval Base Clyde.
A wreath on behalf of submariners’ widows will be laid by Mrs Gillian Molyneux, whose husband Lieutenant Commander Ian Molyneux was tragically killed in the shooting incident on board the submarine HMS Astute in Southampton in 2011.
The ceremony was instituted in 1923 following the unveiling of the National Submarine War Memorial in 1922 and is held on the Sunday before the national Remembrance Day Parade.
The memorial depicts a submarine crew, statutes of truth and Justice, 40 anchor-shaped wreath hooks and lists of the submarines lost in both world wars.
The open air service will be followed by the laying of over 30 wreaths and the salute taken by Rear Admiral Weale, and a roll call of all submariners lost will be read by submariners of several generations.
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