RMR commemorates 2025 Remembrance Day
Westmount, Quebec – 22 November 2025: In the Canadian tradition of Remembrance, people from all walks of life gathered together on Remembrance Sunday, 09 November 2025, showing their respect by wearing poppies and standing in silence as a symbol of remembrance at municipal cenotaphs across the country.
Following decades of custom, the RMR participated in the Pointe-Claire Remembrance ceremony in the morning and then later were bussed back to their Westmount armoury to march to the Westmount cenotaph for their annual service. Cadets from the regiment’s affiliated units marched in both parades, and the RMR Association (Br. 14) of the Royal Canadian Legion took their place of honour to lead the Westmount parade, with the veterans taking their customary place of precedence for this sacred ceremony.
Returning to the armoury for the RMR’s traditional rededication ceremony where the youngest soldier from the ranks was called forward by the Commanding Officer to read a page from the RMR’s honour roll, which lists every single RMR who has died on active service. This solemn ceremony being a quiet reminder that today’s generation carries yesterday’s burden of remembrance, and was particularly poignant as this was the 100th anniversary of the armoury which was built as a living memorial to the RMR’s killed in the First World War, 1914-1918.
Cradling the heavy ‘Book of Names’, Private Cuzovcov read aloud a page from the RMR’s honour roll, which lists every member of the Regiment who has died on active service since 1914. Voices in the armoury fell completely silent as the names echoed off the stone and brick. In that moment, the distance between the mud of France and Flanders, the streets of Europe in the Second World War, and the missions of today seemed to collapse into a single, shared history.
When the reading ended and the book was closed, it was returned to its resting place within the memorial tablet with the same care one would give to a living comrade. The act was simple, but the meaning was not. By placing this duty in the hands of the youngest soldier, the Regiment quietly renewed a promise: that the sacrifices of more than a century will not be forgotten, and that the values those RMR soldiers died for will continue to guide the ordinary Canadians who wear the cap badge today.
Lest We Forget.
