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Are you joining a Remembrance Sunday parade?

Scouts in uniform wearing red poppies join in with a Remembrance Sunday parade.Image source, Getty Images
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Remembrance Sunday is marked every November by the Scout and Girlguiding organisations

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On Sunday 8, November, thousands of representatives from the Armed Forces, Girlguiding and Scouting movements, and NHS will march or walk alongside members of the public and special guests to mark Remembrance Sunday.

Ceremonies and concerts are held to remember those who gave their life for their country during historic and ongoing conflicts.

Remembrance Sunday is always marked on the second weekend of November.

Marches and memorial services will take place all over the UK including a large-scale event in central London.

The British Royal Family will join the procession along Whitehall in England's capital, where His Majesty The King and the prime minister will lay wreaths at the Cenotaph.

Let us know if you are taking part in a service of Remembrance with your school, or with your Guiding or Scouting troop, or perhaps with Brownies or Beavers.

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What is Remembrance Day?

Remembrance Day is on the 11 November, where the UK will hold a two minute silence at 11am to mark the day World War One ended in 1918.

Read more about Remembrance here.

Traditionally, young people from the Scouting and Girlguiding movements also take place in events in their local areas.

Scouts have participated in the National Service of Remembrance at the Cenotaph in London since 1922.

During the First and Second World Wars, older Scouts, leaders, and Guides supported the military working as messengers, lookouts, and stretcher-bearers.

So are you and your friends from Brownies or Beavers, Scouts or Guides participating in a Remembrance service on Sunday?

Let us know in the comments section below.