Remembrance Day

Remembrance Day was observed on Sunday 9th and Tuesday 11th November, 100 years since the outbreak of the First World War, a conflict which killed over 3,000 from Bolton. A large crowd attended a Remembrance Sunday service in Victoria Square. To mark the centenary year, the Mayor of Bolton, Councillor Martin Donaghy, sprinkled soil from the site of the battlefield of Ypres, in Belgium, onto the Victoria Square war memorial in a symbolic gesture.