A Service of Remembrance

On the 11th November 2018 Pembroke College held a service of remembrance commemorating the centenary of Armistice Day.

308 members of Pembroke – staff, students, Fellows – died between 1914 and 1918. Over the last four years the College has marked each individual’s death by placing a cross in the Cloister. On Sunday, Pembroke unveiled a bronze plaque commemorating the College members who fought and died for the Central Powers.

The traditional Remembrance Day Ceremony took place at 11am in the Chapel Cloister, with a two-minute silence, the trumpet playing the Last Post and the Reveille, the laying of the wreath by Lieutenant General Sir John Lorimer (1985), and words of remembrance.

This was followed by a Commemoration in Chapel. The Pembroke Choirs, followed by Fellows of the College and the congregation, processed into Chapel singing ‘O God, our help in ages past’. On entering the Chapel each member of the congregation was given one of the crosses from the War Memorial, bringing to an end four years of remembrance. The names of the fallen were read out by the Master, Professor Loraine Gelsthorpe and Sir John. The choirs also sang ‘Remember’, by Owain Park, commissioned for the day.