A number of different services and events will be taking place, with a full itinerary below.
The majority of the commemorative events will take place around St Peter Port, with the Remembrance parade in Town, a service at the War Memorial at the top of Smith Street, with the laying of wreaths and a two minute silence marked by the firing of the canon at Castle Cornet.
The Castle will be open free to the public from 10:00 until midday so they can attend the gun firing, and also look around the Royal Guernsey Light Infantry Museum and the 201 Squadron RAF museum which are both within the castle grounds.
Pictured: Castle Cornet will be open for two hours tomorrow as part of the island’s events to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Armistice.
The sombre anniversary will be marked elsewhere in Guernsey too, with The Royal British Legion among those making great efforts to ensure those who gave their lives are remembered.
The organisation has arranged for Perspex figures of British ‘Tommies’ to be seated in island churches to remind us of those who are no longer here. Elizabeth College is also taking part with two of the figures placed at the College Field in memory of the Old Elizabethans who served in the Great War.
This year’s Poppy Appeal is also being supported at a concert of Commemoration and Remembrance at St James today, 10 November, by Guernsey Symphonic Winds.
A number of other events are also taking place today and continuing, including the exhibition ‘The End of the First World War’ in the foyer at Guernsey Museum at Candie. It shows how the War did not simply ‘end’ on 11 November 1918. That will be up until the end of the year.
Additionally, the Island Archive Service is mounting an exhibition ‘Letters from the Front’ to mark the end of the war. This runs until March 2019 at St Barnabas and entry is free.
The Elizabeth College Gate House Gallery is also hosting an exhibition of photos of today’s Cadets from the island’s services, posed in the style of the young men leaving the island to fight in the First World War.
Pictured: The Elizabeth College Gate House Gallery exhibition, curated by the school’s artist in resident Aaron Yeandle is open.
On Armistice Day, the events will focus on commemorating and remembering the lives of those who fought in the Great War and the sacrifices they made.
Tomorrow evening, Sunday 11 November, Guernsey will join more than 1,000 locations in Britain and the Overseas Territories in the ‘Battle’s Over’ tribute. This will include the Bailiff, Sir Richard Collas, lighting a Beacon at Castle Cornet, which will form one of a chain of Beacons of Light across the British Isles. This event will not be open to the public.
Pictured: Guernsey’s main war memorial, which will be the focus of a number of tomorrow’s events.
11 November 2018, Guernsey’s Itinerary:
08:59 – the air raid siren at Victoria Tower will sound, followed by the all clear.
11:00 – the gun at Castle Cornet will fire to mark a two-minute silence. Gunners from the Guernsey Military History Company will be dressed in uniforms of the First World War. A second gun marks the end of the two minutes’ silence.
11:00 – immediately following that, a service at the war memorial at the top of Smith Street will begin, concluding in the laying of the wreaths.
18:55 – a bugler will sound the Last Post on the Citadel at Castle Cornet.
19:00 – The Bailiff, Sir Richard Collas, will light the Castle Beacon, as one of a chain of Beacons of Light (this will not be a public event).
19:05 – Bell ringers will play the Ring out for Peace at Town Church. 1,500 hand-made poppies representing the local men who lost their lives in the First World War will be displayed at the Church.
A separate event has also been arranged at the Fort George Military Cemetery which is a Combined Nations Armistice Day Service and will honour lives lost on both sides of the fighting during World War 2.
The Lieutenant Governor, the Bailiff and the Senior Constable of St Peter Port will all be laying wreaths at both the German and British parts of the cemetery tomorrow afternoon.
Two German officers who are currently based in the UK as part of the Allied Rapid Reaction Corps will be there – one of whom was in the island earlier this year, doing some work at the cemetery.
Pictured top: Guernsey’s Smith Street War Memorial.