Eastbourne's Remembrance Sunday is 8 November 2026: parade forms on Cornfield Road at 10.25am, service at the War Memorial 10.40am, silence at 11am.

Remembrance Sunday 2026 falls on Sunday 8 November, and Eastbourne’s service is at the War Memorial on Memorial Roundabout, at the top of Devonshire Place. The two minutes’ silence is at 11am, as it is everywhere. What is worth knowing locally is that the morning starts more than half an hour earlier, with two separate parades converging on the memorial.

Updated 7 October: Visit Eastbourne’s listing now carries the 2026 date, Sunday 8 November, with the same parade and service times as last year.

Visit Eastbourne, run by Eastbourne Borough Council, has rolled its listing for the service on to Sunday 8 November 2026, and the timings on it are unchanged. What has not been published yet is the council’s fuller release, which last year named the bands and the road closure hours. That came out on 29 October in 2025, and we will add the 2026 version when it lands.

The 2026 timings

From Visit Eastbourne’s listing for the Remembrance Sunday service, dated 8 November 2026:

Time What happens
From 10.25am Military parade forms along Cornfield Road, from Bankers Corner to the War Memorial
10.30am Civic parade leaves the Town Hall for the War Memorial
10.40am Service begins at the War Memorial
11am Two minutes’ silence, then the official wreath laying
From 11.20am The parade continues along South Street

Eastbourne Borough Council’s tourism arm described the same morning in more detail last year: representatives from the military, ex-service personnel, emergency services and other organisations processing from the Terminus Road precinct at 10.25am along Cornfield Road, joined at the memorial by the Mayor of Eastbourne and the Deputy Lieutenant of East Sussex, with music from the Eastbourne Citadel Salvation Army Band and the Scottish Pipe Band, and the commemoration closing with ex-military personnel continuing past the memorial via South Street.

Road closures

The council said last year that road closures were in place between 10am and 1pm to allow the parade to run. It did not name the roads, and it has not published anything for 2026 yet.

The streets involved are obvious from the route: Cornfield Road between Bankers Corner and the memorial, the memorial roundabout itself where South Street, Devonshire Place and Cornfield Road meet, and South Street for the closing parade. Grove Road and the Town Hall approach carry the civic parade from 10.30am.

If you are driving into the town centre that morning, treat the whole block between Terminus Road and the Town Hall as unavailable until early afternoon. Anything we can confirm goes on the Eastbourne roadworks and travel page; for where to leave the car and what it costs, see parking in Eastbourne. Hyde Gardens, the dearest council car park by the hour, is free on Sundays, and it is a short walk from the memorial.

Armistice Day, Wednesday 11 November

Eastbourne marks the eleventh separately from Remembrance Sunday. In recent years the service has been at 10.40am at the War Memorial Houses in Victoria Drive, attended by the Mayor of Eastbourne. The houses were funded by Eastbourne residents at the end of the Second World War as a tribute to those killed or injured, and are still homes for ex-service personnel with medical disabilities and their families.

In 2026 Armistice Day is a Wednesday. No time has been published for it yet.

The memorial itself

Eastbourne’s war memorial is a Grade II listed monument on Memorial Roundabout, South Street, BN21 4QH. Historic England’s list entry records that it was unveiled on 10 November 1920 by General The Lord Horne, and that the sculptor was Henry Charles Fehr, whose bronze Angel of Victory stands on the pedestal with one foot on a wreathed globe.

It carries no names. The bronze plaque on the south face explains why: “THE TRIBUTE OF EASTBOURNE TO HER GALLANT SONS AND DAUGHTERS WHO WERE FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 to 1918. THEIR NAMES ARE RECORDED ON OAK TABLETS IN THE TOWN HALL.” Over 1,000 names are on those panels. The memorial was listed on 13 February 2017.

Two plaques were added later, and they are the ones people miss because they face away from the pavement most visitors stand on. A matching bronze plaque on the north face reads “WORLD WAR II” within a wreath, above “THOSE WHO DIED 1939 to 1945 WE WILL REMEMBER THEM”. A third plaque for subsequent conflicts, described by Historic England as mismatched, with a gilded border and wreath, was added on the east side. The pedestal is granite, the sculpture and all three plaques are bronze, and the winged cherubic heads on the top corners and the dolphins below them are part of the original 1920 design.

What is confirmed and what is not

Detail Status for 2026
Date of Remembrance Sunday Fixed. Sunday 8 November 2026
Two minutes’ silence at 11am Fixed by national convention
Location, the War Memorial Unchanged for over a century
Parade start 10.25am, service 10.40am Listed for 8 November 2026 by Visit Eastbourne
Which roads close, and when Not published. In 2025 the council said 10am to 1pm
Who leads the service, which bands play Not published for 2026
Armistice Day service, Victoria Drive Not published for 2026

The pattern in Eastbourne is that everything is announced at once, in a single release in the last week of October. Until that lands, the safe assumptions are the date, the location, the parade and service times and the 11am silence. The road closures, bands and Armistice Day service are last year’s arrangement.

Frequently asked questions

What date is Remembrance Sunday 2026?

Sunday 8 November 2026. Remembrance Sunday is always the second Sunday in November, which is the Sunday nearest to Armistice Day.

What time is the silence in Eastbourne?

11am, at the War Memorial. The service around it begins at 10.40am.

Where exactly is the service held?

At the War Memorial on Memorial Roundabout, where South Street, Devonshire Place and Cornfield Road meet, a few minutes’ walk from the Terminus Road precinct.

Can anyone attend?

Yes. It is a public commemoration in the open street and there is nothing to book. The council has described it as always well supported, so arrive before 10.40am if you want to be within sight of the memorial.

Have the 2026 details been confirmed?

Partly. Visit Eastbourne’s listing, checked on 7 October 2026, gives Sunday 8 November with the parade forming at 10.25am and the service at 10.40am. The council’s fuller release, with road closures and bands, came out on 29 October last year, so expect it in late October. This page will be updated then.

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