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Remembrance Day

Campus community gathers to honour those who served

Sailor 1st Class Andrew Micallef-Bustamante, a University of Windsor history student and member of the Royal Canadian Navy, reads the Commitment to Remember during the University’s Remembrance Day ceremony on Nov. 11, 2026. (MIKE WILKINS/University of WinSailor 1st Class Andrew Micallef-Bustamante, a University of Windsor history student and member of the Royal Canadian Navy, reads the Commitment to Remember during the University’s Remembrance Day ceremony on Nov. 11, 2026. (MIKE WILKINS/University of Windsor)

Students, faculty, staff and community members gathered on the front lawn of Memorial Hall on Nov. 11 for the University of Windsor’s annual Remembrance Day ceremony, honouring Canada’s veterans, active service members and those who made the ultimate sacrifice.

Through musical tributes, moments of reflection and readings of letters written by Canadian service members during wartime, the campus community came together to remember the human cost of war and the enduring importance of peace and freedom.

View photos from the ceremony below.

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Remembrance Day
Serving Scholars
Victorieuse Sambao
J.J. McMurtry
David Pitawanakwat
Andrew Micallef-Bustamante
Nicholas Amlin
Pritham Suresan
Hadassah Ward

— Published on Nov 11th, 2026

Beyond the memorial, archives reveal the lives of Windsor soldiers lost in war

David Yott in the Special ArchivesDavid Yott gathers photographs, newspaper accounts, military records, school documents and personal correspondence for a new display in Leddy Library's Archives and Special Collections reading room. It reveals the lives of local soldiers who never returned home. (JOHN-PAUL BONADONNA/University of Windsor)

By John-Paul Bonadonna

War telegrams carried the power to change a family’s life in a single sentence.

One message could tell a mother her son was safe.

Another could bring the devastating news that he was never coming home.

For David Yott, an archival assistant at the University of Windsor's Leddy Library, a telegram message sent by Private Joseph Cerullo to his parents – that is preserved in the archives – brought the human cost of the Second World War into sharp focus.

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Remembrance Day
Leddy Library
Archives and Special Collections
David Yott

— Published on Nov 9th, 2026