Remembrance weekend - homage to the fallen

WAR veterans were joined by community leaders, service and youth organisations and residents at ceremonies in towns and villages across Arun, to remember those who have lost their lives in conflicts.
By The Newsroom
Published 17th Nov 2005, 10:29 BST
Updated 8th Jun 2018, 01:00 BST

The 60th anniversary of the end of the Second World War may have been the reason for large crowds gathering at many of the events, both on Remembrance Sunday, and Armistice Day, Friday.

In Littlehampton on Friday, workers in shops, offices and other businesses gathered around the town's war memorial at 11am for two minutes' silence, or paused for reflection where they were.

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Arun District Council chairman Tony Squires led the Armistice Day tribute at the memorial, with town mayor David Dyball, MP Nick Gibb and Royal British Legion Littlehampton branch president George Stoner.

There was a similar opportunity for villagers in East Preston to pay their respects on Armistice Day, when the Royal British Legion branch invited people to observe the two minutes' silence outside its headquarters, and Rustington's Legion branch also held a short service at the village war memorial.

The more formal ceremonies were held on Sunday, around war memorials, in parish churches and with parades through town and village centres.

Service and uniformed youth organisations formed up for the traditional Remembrance Sunday parade through Littlehampton town centre, before the commemoration and wreath-laying at the memorial.

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Representatives of a wide range of town organisations took part in the tribute, organised by the Legion branch, and many then processed to St Mary's Church for the remembrance service.

Rustington's Remembrance Sunday commemoration began with a parade through the village centre to the parish church for a service led by vicar, the Rev Zachary Allen.

Afterwards, the parade re-formed to march to the war memorial, for a short service and the act of remembrance. Many village organisations laid wreaths.

MP Peter Bottomley and parish council chairman Dorothy Lee were among those taking part in East Preston's Remembrance Sunday services at the parish church and, later, at the village war memorial.

Arundel's commemoration took place in Town Square and at Angmering, services were held both at St Margaret's Church, and around the village war memorial.

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