Remembrance 2025
Published: 11 November 2025
PRESS RELEASE
Loughton Remembered
Loughton’s Remembrance Parade and Service was held on Sunday 9 November 2025 at the war memorial on Kings Green, Loughton.
The sun shone, and hundreds of residents joined the annual parade, leaving the Royal British Legion Headquarters (Loughton Branch) at Church Hill. The procession was a wonderful sight and included representatives from The Royal British Legion, Churches Together in Loughton, the Air Cadets, Scouts, Guides, Brownies and Rainbows together with ex-service men and councillors.
Large crowds assembled at Kings Green where Town Mayor, Councillor David Wixley, together with Deputy Lord Lieutenant Amrik Singh, Dr Neil Hudson MP for Epping Forest and Cllr Louise Mead, Chairman of Epping Forest District Council led the tributes. The two minutes silence marking the anniversary of this day in 1918 when the guns finally stopped at the end of the First World War. We thank the ministers from ‘Churches Together in Loughton’ for the service and also Ben Mayer, representing the Royal British Legion and veterans for his superb organisation of the parade. Altogether a really fitting tribute to the fallen.
On Armistice Day itself, Tuesday 11 November at 11am Loughton Town Council also held a two-minute silence at the War Memorial on Kings Green and members of Staples Road Primary School Council and children from Chrysalis Day Nursery laid their poppy wreaths. We were also joined this year for the first time, by the Public Services students from New City College along with members of the public.
Town Mayor, Cllr David Wixley read the Exhortation, and we thank Flag Bearer, Malachi Fontenelle representing the Loughton Royal British Legion and Reverend Chris Davies, who provided a short address, for their contribution to the event.
Photos credit to Everything Epping Forest
Note to editor:
For more information contact
Mark Squire (Town Clerk) Tel: 020 8508 4200
Date: 11 November 2025
Air Cadet band marching down Church Hill to the War Memorial at Kings Green at this year's Remembrance Parade.
Loughton Town Mayor, Cllr David Wixley laying a wreath on behalf of the Town Council at the War Memorial on Kings Green on Sunday, 9 November 2025
Representatives from the Loughton Scouts, Guides, Brownies and Rainbows observing the poppy wreaths laid at the War Memorial on Kings Green on Sunday, 9 November 2025
L-R: Dr Neil Hudson, Epping Forest MP, Loughton Town Mayor, Cllr David Wixley, Deputy Lord Lieutenant of Essex, Amrik Shah, Chairman of EFDC, Cllr Louise Mead, and her daughter on the dais at the Remembrance Parade at the War Memorial on Kings Green on Sunday, 9 November 2025
Chrysalis Nursery Bumble Bees at the War Memorial on Kings Green commemorating Armistice Day, 11 November 2025
Chrysalis Nursery pupils at the War Memorial on Kings Green commemorating Armistice Day, 11 November 2025
Staples Road Primary School pupils at the War Memorial on Kings Green commemorating Armistice Day 2025
Public Sector students, New City College, at the War Memorial on Kings Green commemorating Armistice Day 2025
L-R: Malachi Fontenelle, Flag bearer representing the Royal British Legion, Loughton Town Mayor Cllr David Wixley and Rev'd Chris Davies at the War Memorial on Kings Green on Armistice Day, 11 November 2025