Trafalgar Day

However, Trafalgar day was still marked as a public day each year.

Trafalgar Day (the British Empire in the 19th and early 20th century)

The statue forms the centrepiece of Birmingham's annual Trafalgar Day commemoration.

Privately, Downing Street says Trafalgar Day will win the vote to be introduced during 1995.

For years, an annual ceremony has been held on Trafalgar Day, the Sunday closest to the 21st of October.

Special permission was granted to any individual or body to fly the White Ensign to mark Trafalgar Day in 2006.

The Royal Navy traditionally celebrates Trafalgar Day on the 21st of October.

The French are also likely to be infuriated by plans to replace May Day with Trafalgar Day.

Politicians need to understand that British people don't need excuses to love our country, nor a specially designated "Trafalgar Day" on which to celebrate it.

Mark Campbell himself runs many monster games, including the Trafalgar Day games, which are the largest monster-games, being upwards of 40-50 players.

A crowd of 11,000 gathered on Trafalgar Day to watch Queen Elizabeth II christen the sub.

A memorial service was held on 21 October (Trafalgar Day) at St. Lawrence Jewry-next-Guildhall church.

Hello Sailor - Some in the Ministry of Defence feel that the Trafalgar Day 200th celebration is taking attention away from more vital concerns.

I am in France, where Trafalgar Day most decidedly is not being celebrated, and where, as I have learned, it is still a sore subject.

Even today, on Trafalgar Day, the flag officer shaves with the same cut-throat razor used by Nelson while he commanded Albermarle.

It will be replaced either by Trafalgar Day in October or an extra day tacked on to the existing August Bank Holiday.

It was originally scheduled to take place on 21 October 1940, Trafalgar Day, but a fire in an auxiliary fuel tank of one Swordfish led to a delay.

Extra rum rations were provided for special celebrations, like Trafalgar Day, and sailors might share their ration with the cook or with a messmate celebrating a birthday.

The graveyard is the site of an annual commemorative ceremony on Trafalgar Day, the Sunday nearest to the anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar.

I had meant to keep it for Trafalgar Day, but seeing this is a special occasion perhaps we may draw off an ounce or so and drink the immortal memory tonight.'

It is remembered and celebrated each year by certain regiments of the British Army, in the same way that the Royal Navy celebrates Trafalgar Day (21 October).

The Royal Navy celebrates Nelson every 21 October by holding Trafalgar Day dinners and toasting "The Immortal Memory" of Nelson.

The formation of the Navy League in 1894 gave added impetus to the movement to recognise Nelson's legacy, and grand celebrations were held in Trafalgar Square on Trafalgar Day, 1896.

He was also a soloist at Wood's Trafalgar Day Centenary Concert of 21 October 1905 (at which Wood's Fantasia on British Sea-Songs was first performed).

It wasn't until the annual meeting of the Nelson Society, held in the sanctuary of the old Dockyard Church, that I learned that next year's Trafalgar Day weekend would take place in Bath.