On Thursday 6th November 2025, the Vice Lord-Lieutenant, Brigadier Maurice Sheen DL, represented the Lord-Lieutenant at Carisbrooke Castle. The now well established Field of Remembrance was opened and dedicated by the Rev Stephen Sutcliffe in the presence of many dignitaries, veterans and uniformed cadets together with local people and school children.
A party of Standard Bearers added colour to the occasion in the autumn clear weather. A trumpeter, Andy Croucher, played the last post to start the 2 minutes silence followed by the Reveille. Dr Keiron Cooney played a lament on the bag pipes during the laying of crosses. The first crosses were solemnly laid by the Vice Lord-Lieutenant. Many others followed as the assembled people departed. Some of the school children gathered around the famous Warrior Horse bronze statue in the walled Princess Beatrice Gardens where a short service was held before wreaths were laid to remember the huge loss of animals during wartime.