Field of Remembrance
Field of Remembrance event details
Communities across the Isle of Wight come together in November to honour those who served and sacrificed. This page contains the Order of Service for Field of Remembrance at Carisbrooke Castle.
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Field of Remembrance Service
- Where: Carisbrooke Castle, Newport
- When: Thursday 6 November 2025
- Time: Field opens at 10.30am, service at 10.50am
Order of service
Field of Remembrance
Carisbrooke Castle
Thursday 6 November 2025
10.50am
Welcome and Introduction
Minister: We meet in the presence of God. We commit ourselves to work in penitence and faith, for reconciliation between the nations, that all people may, together, live in freedom, justice, and peace. We pray for all who in bereavement, disability and pain continue to suffer the consequences of fighting and terror. We remember with thanksgiving and sorrow those whose lives in world wars and conflicts past and present, have been given and taken away.
Almighty and eternal God, from whose love in Christ we cannot be parted, either by death or life: hear our prayers and thanksgivings for all whom we remember this day; fulfil in them the purpose of your love; and bring us all, with them, to your eternal joy; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
All: Amen
Minister: Let us remember before God and commend to his keeping, those who have died for their country in war; those whom we knew, and those whose memory we treasure; and all who have lived and died in the service of the peoples of the world.
The Exhortation
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old; age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, we will remember them.
All: We will remember them.
Last Post
We keep two minutes silence.
Reveille
The Kohima Epitaph
When you go home tell them of us and say,
‘For your tomorrow we gave our today’.
Prayers
Minister: In peace let us pray to the Lord.
As we gather here in this Field of Remembrance we look back in sorrow for all those who have suffered injury and loss in past conflicts; we recall those who are suffering in conflicts in our troubled world today: and we look forward to that day when the kingdoms of this world will be ordered by God’s peaceable reign.
Lord, in your mercy,
All: Hear our prayer.
Minister: O God, we pray that you will guide the minds of all those to whom you have committed the government of the nations and encourage all counsels which make for the restoration of a rightful and abiding peace. As nations met to make peace in the past, so may we too seek a lasting peace now and in the future.
Lord, in your mercy,
All: Hear our prayer.
Minister: We pray for the wounded and the captive, the grieving and the homeless. As we look upon the wastes and sorrows of past and present conflicts, we pray that the Lord will show his mercy and forgiveness and extend his healing upon our broken world.
Lord, in your mercy,
All: Hear our prayer.
Minister: Most holy God and Father, hear our prayers for all who strive for peace and all who fight for justice. Help us, who remember today the cost of war, to work for a better tomorrow; and, as we commend to you lives lost in terror and conflict, bring us all, in the end, to the peace of your presence.
Lord, in your mercy,
All: Hear our prayer.
Minister: We gather all our prayers together as we pray:
All: Our Father, who art in heaven,
Hallowed be thy Name.
Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom,
the power and the glory,
for ever and ever. Amen.
Go forth into the world in peace, hold fast to what is good; render to no one evil for evil; strengthen the faint hearted, support the weak; help the afflicted, respect everyone: and the blessing of God Almighty, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit be upon you and remain with you always.
All: Amen.
The Minister will invite those who wish to place crosses to come forward while the lament is played.
Piper’s Lament
Depart
“After visiting the Garden of Remembrance at Westminster Abbey in London many times I felt it would be fitting for the Isle of Wight to have a similar place of remembrance for local people to visit and remember those from the Island who lost their lives while serving their country. The Garden of Remembrance is a place for people from all parts of the Island to remember people from all our uniformed services. English Heritage has supported the introduction of a Field of Remembrance for the Island.“
Major General Sir Martin White, KCVO CB CBE