Canada Day

This Annual Service is held in Remembrance of 318 Canadian soldiers who died during the Great War of 1914 – 1919 in No. 12 Canadian General Hospital, located in our Parish some two and a half kilometres east of Bramshott, and now lie in the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery, within the precincts of the Church and Churchyard of St Mary the Virgin, in Bramshott. This Hospital was renamed Connaught in 1947 and has since been demolished.

For many years this Service was held on the last Sunday in June, to precede Canada Day, the 1^st of July.  Since 2005 it has been held on the last Wednesday in order that it may be attended by pupils of Liphook CofE Junior School, normally Year 4 aged about 8 – 9 years, who participate in the Service, both in the Church and in the Cemetery. After Wreath-laying, Canadian Veterans and other Guests are entertained to Lunch in the Liphook CofE Junior School.