Remembrance Day ceremony at the Old North Memorial Garden. Richard Schofield, President of the British Officers Club, lays a wreath with Vicar Stephen T. Ayres and Associate Vicar Ellie Terry of Old North Church
Bagpipes were heard in the North End on Sunday morning for Remembrance Day, a British tradition recognized at the Old North Church in cooperation with the British Consulate General and the British Officer’s Club of New England. Many in attendance wore traditional red poppy lapel pins. At a prayer service, there was a reading of In Flanders Field written during the First World War by Canadian physician Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae.
Bagpipe player, Matthew Phelps, leads the Remembrance Day procession at Old North Church 
Keith Taylor, British Soldier’s Fund, lays wreath at the Old North Memorial Garden ceremony
A wreath-laying ceremony was held at the Iraq-Afghanistan Memorial in the Old North Memorial Garden. Major Michael Court was presented with an Operational Service Medal for his service in Iraq and Syria by Harriet Cross, British Consul General.
Major Michael Court receives medal from British Consul General Harriet Cross
The Old North Memorial holds the dog tags representing each American serviceperson who lost their life in the wars. A second plaque in the shape of a bronze poppy wreath, honors service persons from the British Commonwealth that have died.
Matthew Phelps plays the bagpipes
at the annual Remembrance Ceremony at Old North
Soloist Kirsten Cairns sings at Remembrance Day Ceremony 
Iraq – Afghanistan Memorial at the Old North Garden
Remembrance Day is the British name for Veteran’s Day. It commemorates the signing of the armistice to end the First World War at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918. The British community in Boston has celebrated Remembrance Day at the Old North Church for nigh forty years.
