Remembrance Sunday 2025 observed in Bulgaria’s Plovdiv
The traditional Service of Remembrance was observed on Remembrance Sunday, November 9 2025, at the British Military Cemetery in Bulgaria’s city of Plovdiv.
Following a welcome by UK ambassador Nathaniel Copsey and the opening of the prayerful elements of the service by Father Patrick Irwin, defence attache Lieutenant Colonel Matthew Walker read the Lesson and, in a deeply moving moment, the Exhortation was delivered by George Dean, seven.
Floral tributes were laid by Copsey, a Bulgarian Armed Forces honour guard, and military veterans from Britain and South Africa and their families.
According to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, the Commonwealth servicemen buried at Plovdiv Central Cemetery died either as prisoners of war or while serving with the occupying forces following the Bulgarian capitulation in September 1918.
The cemetery contains 55 Commonwealth burials from the First World War. Among the British burials is a South African national who was serving with British forces.
On November 11, a Remembrance Day service is to be held in Sofia Central Cemetery, with participants asked to arrive by 10.50am.
(Photos: Clive Leviev-Sawyer)
