This Sunday marks 100 years since the end of the Great War with memorials and events held around the island.

The Douglas service will begin with a parade march which, due to roadworks, will start from Regent Street with those wishing to attend asked to arrive between 9am and 9.10am.

The parade will then move off through Strand Street, Castle Street, Marina Road, St Thomas’ Walk, Market Street and Church Road Marina to St Thomas’ Church where, on arrival, the parade will use the Finch Road entrance.

Following a service, due to end at 10.40am, the parade will move to the war memorial on the promenade for the laying of wreaths and a two minutes’ silence led by Mayor of Douglas Jon Joughin. The parade march will then retrace its steps and end back at Regent Street.

In case of bad weather, the parade may be abandoned. However, the war memorial silence will still be observed.

Ramsey’s service will be held at the war memorial in the Courthouse grounds started at 10.40am. Those wishing to attend are asked to arrive by 10.30am, the silence will then be held at the war memorial.

In the event of bad weather, the service will be held in St Paul’s church on Market Hill.

Onchan’s memorial service will begin on Saturday at 10am with children from Onchan, Ashley Hill and St Ninian’s Lower schools placing 73 wooden crosses into the grass by the war memorial, each with a name of a serviceman from the village who died in conflicts.

On Sunday, a parade originating from the road behind the village’s war memorial on Elm Tree Road at 9.30am will march to St Peter’s church for a service after which the parade will return to the front of the war memorial to lay wreaths and observe the two minutes silence.

Braddan Commissioners is holding a secular act of remembrance at the memorial hall in Union Mills. The event takes place at 10.45am with a two minutes’ silence at 11am.

Representatives from the Isle of Man Freethinkers will conduct the short ceremony.

Braddan Commissioners have erected two silhouettes of First World War soldiers in front of the Memorial Hall, together with 60 metal poppies; one to represent each of the 60 men from the parish of Braddan who perished in the First and Second World Wars.

In Castletown, a parade will gather at 9.40am in front of the town hall and will then march to the Methodist church where a service will be held.

After the service, a ceremony at the town’s memorial in Market Square will be held including laying of wreaths and a minute silence, a road closure order is in place for Market Square at that time.

In Port Erin, people are asked to congregate at the Memorial Hall on Droghadfayle Road at 09.45am.

There is a wreath laying at the garden of remembrance followed by a parade to Rushen Parish Church led by Rushen Silver Band.

In Port St Mary, a remembrance service takes place in the village’s remembrance garden at 10.40am.

Tribute

Lieutenant Governor Sir Richard Gozney and Lady Gozney will be attending the national service of remembrance at St John’s, which will begin at 3pm.

On Sunday evening, a special service will be held at St George’s Church in Douglas beginning at 6.30pm where Hector Duff BEM will be reading a ’Tribute to the Millions’, a specially produced elegy for the event.

At 6.55pm a bugler will play the Last Post.

At the same time, it will be played at 1,000 sites across the British Isles, Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories.

Then at 7pm, a beacon will be lit inside the grounds of St George’s which will also be done at some1,000 locations.

The Isle of Man Civil Defence Corps will light an electric beacon at Slieau Lhost, near Windy Corner.

And at 7.05pm church bells across the island will be rung in line with those in the UK.

In Peel, a piper will play in the cathedral grounds at 6am to signify the time the document to end the war was signed which will be followed by a short service.

There will then be a parade from Market Square at 2.30pm to the cathedral for a service of remembrance and like Douglas, the last post will be played and a beacon lit.

A sound system will be set up outside of St George’s church to cover the entire service for anyone who cannot get inside the church.