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Remembrance Sunday services held across West to honour fallen
BBC • • world
Key Points:
- Communities across the West gathered for Remembrance Sunday, sharing memories, honoring relatives affected by war, and holding fundraisers to support veterans.
- In Wiltshire, Tidworth, known as the home of the British Army, veterans and residents paid respects during a parade, with many lampposts adorned with poppies.
- Gloucestershire's Cinderford saw a large parade including schoolchildren and families, while police honored 21 officers who died in the world wars.
- Somerset towns like Taunton and Bath held marches, wreath-laying ceremonies, and services, emphasizing active participation in remembrance by all generations.
- In Bristol, military units, cadets, veterans, and families gathered at the Cenotaph for the Act of Remembrance, marked by a two-minute silence and The Last Post.
