12 November 2013

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THE Rev Canon Clive Everett-Allen, the vicar of St Swithun’s, led the town’s Remembrance Day service and wreath-laying ceremony at the High Street war memorial on Sunday.

The High Street was packed with onlookers who paid their respects to the dead of two World Wars, as well as representatives from the Royal British Legion, Army, Air Force and Navy cadets, scouts and the emergency services.

Town Mayor Margaret Belsey returned on Monday (pictured below) – at the eleventh hour, of the eleventh day, of the eleventh month – to lay a final wreath marking the exact moment of truce when the guns finally fell quiet in 1918.

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