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The Cenotaph on Heerengracht Street in Cape Town is the city's main war memorial where annual Remembrance Day ceremonies are held. It is classified as a public memorial and as such is subject to protection in terms of heritage legislation administered by Heritage Western Cape, the provincial heritage resources authority of the Western Cape province of South Africa.〔 Section 37, National Heritage Resources Act, Act 25 of 1999, Government Notice 502, South African Government Gazette, vol 406, No. 19974 of 28 April 1999〕 ==Purpose== First unveiled in 1924 to commemorate soldiers who died in World War I, it also commemorates soldiers who subsequently died in World War II and the Korean War.〔 The City of Cape Town holds Remembrance Day ceremonies at the Cenotaph annually at 11am on the Sunday closest to 11 November. The wreath laying ceremonies include the wearing of red remembrance poppies,〔 the "Last Post" bugle call and the observation of a two-minute silence.〔〔 The Cenotaph was unveiled on 3 August 1924 by South Africa's then Governor-General Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone,〔 who said:〔〔
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