In addition to the ceremony held in the City of Hamilton on Remembrance Day itself, marching to the Cenotaph ( a smaller replica of the one in London ), where wreaths are laid and orations made, a smaller military parade is also held in St. George's on the nearest Sunday to Remembrance Day.

A limestone replica of the Cenotaph at Whitehall in London was erected outside the Cabinet Building in Hamilton, Bermuda in 1920.

The Cenotaph at Whitehall, London on Remembrance Day 2004

The Cenotaph, Whitehall | The Cenotaph, Whitehall, London

The best known of these monuments are the Cenotaph in Whitehall, Westminster, and the Memorial to the Missing of the Somme, Thiepval.

World War I had a devastating effect on the local community at a cost of life commemorated in the prominent Cenotaph ( loosely based on Lutyens ' Whitehall Cenotaph ) at the centre of the town unveiled in 1927.

Whitehall pictured in 2012, with The Cenotaph, Whitehall | The Cenotaph and Monument to the Women of World War II in the middle of the street, and the clock tower housing Big Ben in the background.

Whitehall is also widely known for a number of memorial statues and monuments, including Britain's primary war memorial The Cenotaph.

The Cenotaph, Britain's primary war memorial, is situated in the centre of Whitehall and is the site of the annual ceremonies on Remembrance Sunday.

In 2005 a national Monument to the Women of World War II was erected a short distance north of the Cenotaph in the middle of the Whitehall carriageway.

The United Kingdom national ceremony is held in London at the Cenotaph on Whitehall and, since 2002, also at the Women's Memorial.

The Cenotaph, Whitehall, London

In Canada, major cenotaphs inspired by Lutyen's memorial in Whitehall, London, commemorating the nation's war dead in World War I and later conflicts include the National War Memorial ( a cenotaph surmounted by a bronze sculpture entitled " The Response ") in Ottawa ; Montreal, Toronto, Hamilton, Victoria and the Victory Square Cenotaph, in Vancouver, British Columbia.

* Cenotaph of Sigismunda and Lutyen's Whitehall Cenotaph

The Cenotaph, Whitehall | The Cenotaph, in Whitehall, London, is made from Portland stone.

At age 10 in August 1995, Prince Harry attended the 50th anniversary of Victory over Japan Day at the Cenotaph in London and saluted the officers in the military parade, one of the most important ceremonies in the royal family agenda.

It is always played at the Cenotaph in London on Remembrance Sunday.

File: Cenotaph London. jpg | The Cenotaph

These included the plaster Cenotaph, designed by the noted British architect Sir Edwin Lutyens, for the Allied Victory parade in London, and it was so successful that it was reproduced in stone, and still stands.

File: LondonOntarioCenotaph. jpg | Cenotaph, Victoria Park, London, Ontario

The 11: 00 bulletin on Remembrance Sunday includes coverage of the national two minutes silence at the Cenotaph in London.

The Cenotaph, Whitehall | The Cenotaph in Whitehall, London, United Kingdom.

For various reasons connected with their character, the same may be said to apply to certain governmental memorials in the United Kingdom ( the Cenotaph in London, relating to the Empire in general, and the Scottish National War Memorial in Edinburgh, also with a reference to the Empire, but with particular connections to the United Kingdom, having been opened by the Prince of Wales in 1927 and with the King and the Queen the first visitors and contributors of a casket of the Scottish names for addition within the Shrine ).

** The Cenotaph, Whitehall, London

* The Cenotaph in London, designed by Edwin Lutyens, is completed.

Dimbleby has also covered outside broadcast events of national importance, such as the State Opening of Parliament, the Trooping the Colour, the Remembrance Day service at the Cenotaph in Whitehall, London, the Golden Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, royal weddings, and visits of US presidents.

The right-wing newspapers nevertheless lambasted him consistently for what they saw as his bohemian eccentricity, attacking him for wearing what they described as a " donkey jacket " ( actually he wore a type of duffel coat ) at the wreath-laying ceremony at the Cenotaph on Remembrance Day in November 1981, for which he was likened to an " out-of-work navvy " by one of Labour's own MPs.

The Georgetown Cenotaph, at Main and Church Streets, was built in 1923.

The Cenotaph was originally commissioned by David Lloyd George as a temporary structure to be the centrepiece of the Allied Victory Parade in 1919.

It was commissioned in 1783 by the Earl Fitzwilliam as a memorial to the late first Marquess of Rockingham ; it was designed by John Carr, whose first design, for an obelisk, was rejected, in favour of an adaptation of the Roman Cenotaph of the Julii at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, near Arles.

The park is a triangular " garden of remembrance " with a Cenotaph, and was opened in 25 April 1951.

The concrete Memorial Cenotaph at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park was designed by Kenzo Tange to commemorate the 200, 000 victims of the August 1945 atomic bomb attack.

The eastern side of the square itself is flanked by two lawns and is also the site of the city's Cenotaph, which was designed by JJ Burnet and originally built to commemorate Glaswegians killed in the First World War when it was erected in 1922 by the Earl Haig Fund.

* On 7 September 2008, a plaque in Slim's memory, and those who served with him, was unveiled at the Cenotaph in his native Bristol.

After the war, Martin Place was selected as the site for the Sydney Cenotaph which honours the dead and remains a focus for ANZAC Day commemorations in the city to this day.

It was used for an outside broadcasting by the BBC, for the first time, on Armistice Day 1937, when the general public could watch in a television set how the King lay a wreath at the Cenotaph.

Wallace Hartley, lead member of the orchestra on board the Titanic was brought up and buried in Colne and has a memorial near the Library Cenotaph.

That was the last time a First World War veteran marched past the Cenotaph and it marked the end of an era.

He did not attend the 2006 Remembrance Day parade on 11 November at the Cenotaph as he was in France at a wreath-laying ceremony and to receive the Freedom of The Town of Saint-Omer.

In 2008 Sinn Fein councillor Billy Leonard claimed that convicted loyalist murderer and a member of the Ulster Freedom Fighters unit which carried out the Greysteel massacre, Torrens Knight was a member of the Kilrea branch of the Apprentice Boys and had laid a wreath at the village Cenotaph. This was denied by a spokesman for the group and by Knight himself. The organisation demanded an explanation and an apology from Sinn Fein for making the claims.

In 2002 the Cenotaph was given a refurbishment and was re-dedicated.