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VJ Day Veterans’ Parade with St Andrews Pipe Band
Sat 16 Aug
|Watts Park
Join us in Southampton City centre as we honour the 20,000 veterans repatriated following the fall of Japan in 1945—marking the end of World War II.
Time & Location
16 Aug 2025, 10:30 – 14:00
Watts Park, Cumberland Pl, Southampton SO15 2BG, UK
About the event
At 10:30 AM – Veterans and Standards will assemble in Watts Park
Led by St Andrews Pipe Band, the parade will proceed to the Cenotaph
At 11:00 AM – A commemorative service and wreath-laying ceremony will take place at the Cenotaph to pay tribute to those who served
Following the service, the veterans will march through East Park into Palmerston Park for a Picnic in the Park where St Andrews Pipe Band will play again.
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