Remembrance services across Three Rivers 2024

Councillors from all political groups will be representing Three Rivers District Council at services of remembrance across the district, including the Council Chair, Cllr Raj Khiroya, who will attend a service at St John the Evangelist Church in Heronsgate and Cllr Stephen Giles-Medhurst, the Council Leader, who will attend Leavesden War Memorial.

One of the biggest remembrance events in the district took place on Saturday, 2 November when hundreds of people - including the Chair - attended a special Oxhey Jets Poppy Match and remembrance ceremony.

Club founder and general manager, John Elliott BEM said: “The event is of great pride to us bringing the youth and senior sections together to honour our nation’s great service personnel who have paid the ultimate sacrifice. To see such young people wearing the poppy with such pride and understanding is education in itself and raises thousands for the Poppy Appeal”

The match honoured all those who have lost their lives in war, and particularly Private Thomas Lake, from Northwood, who was killed in action while patrolling the Jamal Kowi area of the Nahr-e Saraj district of central Helmand in November 2011. The former Oxhey Jets player has been remembered annually at the team’s poppy matches, which raise money for the Royal British Legion’s Poppy Appeal.

The match is also now held in memory of Captain Tom Sawyer, who was killed in an explosion while taking part in a joint operation with a Danish Battle Group and the Afghan National Army northeast of Gereshk in central Helmand, in 2009.

This year’s opponents for the match were the Royal Navy team.

Here is a list of remembrance events across the district that will be taking place on Sunday 10 November:

St Lawrence Church, Abbots Langley

Act of Remembrance at 10:50am at the war memorial followed by a Remembrance Service at the Church at 11:15am

Church of Ascension, Bedmond

3pm – 4pm

Holy Cross Church, Sarratt

10:30am start.

Christ Church, Chorleywood

3pm start. Meet at Chorleywood House at 2:40pm.

St Thomas of Canterbury Church, West Hyde

Act of Remembrance at 10:50am at the War Memorial

St John the Evangelist Church, Heronsgate

Act of Remembrance at 10:50am

All Saints Church, Croxley Green

Civic Service at 2:30pm followed by a procession to the War Memorial on the Green

St Paul’s Church, Langleybury

10am start.

Leavesden War Memorial, High Road

10:45am at the War Memorial in Leavesden High Road outside Dale Court

South Oxhey Baptist Church

10:30am start.

St Peter's, Mill End

10:50am start

St Mary’s Church, Rickmansworth

A parade to the Church will begin at 1:30pm followed by a service at the Wat Memorial at 2:15pm.

Methodist Church, South Oxhey

The Service of Remembrance will be held at 10am with wreath laying at 10:55am.

PHOTO CAPTION: Cllr Raj Khiroya, Chair of Three Rivers District Council, paying his respects at the South Oxhey Jets Remembrance Match on Saturday 02 November.