What date is Trafalgar Day?
Trafalgar Day repairs in Gibraltar prior to sailing for Britain. The Victory is celebrated in the New Zealand City of Nelson (Named after Horatio Nelson) usually in Trafalgar Square and sometimes involves Pupils from Victory Primary School. Many Streets in Nelson are named after Trafalgar and Crew members of Victory. The victory is celebrated each year in the Australian town of Trafalgar, Victoria, in which the small town of 2,200 hold an annual Battle of Trafalgar Festival with the Trafalgar Day Ball held on the Friday or Saturday closest to 21 October each year. Royal Navy website Trafalgar Day Trafalgar Day is
Trafalgar Day killed on board HMS "Victory" in 1805. It is believed that this is the only memorial on the island, Nelson's pillar in Dublin (the earliest memorial to Admiral Nelson) having been destroyed in 1966, and in 2015 residents organised their first ever "Trafalgar Day". In Gibraltar, the Trafalgar Day service takes place at the Trafalgar Cemetery, where the senior Naval Commander reads an extract from the "Gibraltar Chronicle" newspaper, the first periodical to report on the battle. Some sailors died in Gibraltar of wounds received at Trafalgar; they are buried in Gibraltar. HMS "Victory", with Nelson's body on board, underwent