On Sunday 14 November, the nation will honour the fallen of two World Wars and those who have sacrificed their lives in service of their country.

As in previous years, a Memorial Service will take place at St.Leonards Church at 10.00am, followed by a parade to the Memorial Garden where a short service (including the traditional 2 minute silence) will be held.

Click here to find details of the temporary road closures that will operate during the service.

The Soldier, by Rupert Brooke

If I should die, think only this of me:
      That there’s some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England. There shall be
      In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
      Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam;
A body of England’s, breathing English air,
      Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.

And think, this heart, all evil shed away,
      A pulse in the eternal mind, no less
            Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;
Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;
      And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,
            In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.