Julie Minns MP will lay a wreath at the County Memorial in Rickerby Park, Carlisle, on behalf of all six Members of Parliament whose constituencies together cover the former counties of Westmorland and Cumberland, now Cumbria.

The wreath that Julie Minns, MP for Carlisle will lay will be on behalf off Tim Farron, MP for Westmorland and Lonsdale; Michelle Scrogham, MP for Barrow and Furness; Lizzi Collinge, MP for Morecambe and Lunesdale; Markus Campbell-Savours, MP for Penrith and Solway; and Josh MacAlister, MP for Whitehaven and Workington.

Julie Minns MP said: “Last year, when I laid a wreath at the County Memorial, someone mentioned it had been quite some time since an MP had done so.

“I therefore approached my fellow MPs whose constituencies include parts of the former counties that this year to propose we lay a joint wreath at the County Cenotaph in remembrance of those who served.”

Sir Robert Lorimer’s 12 metre high granite cenotaph in Rickerby Park commemorates the fallen of those former counties. 

The joint wreath follows a proposal from Ms Minns to the other MPs following last year’s ceremony at the Cenotaph where she became aware that it had been some years since an MP had laid a wreath at the County Memorial, with each of the principal towns and the city of Carlisle now holding their own Remembrance services.