Remembrance Day services held across Shropshire
Members of public will today join the Royal British Legion, members of the armed forces, cadets and council dignitaries for remembrance services across Shropshire.
People will join together in respect for the many men and women whom have risked their lives in past wars and those lost recently in the ongoing essential operations in Afghanistan.
Staff from RAF Shawbury in north Shropshire will be taking a major role in the Remembrance Day Commemorations across the county.
Personnel from the airbase will be present at the Shrewsbury Service in St Chads Church on and the associated parade through the town. The parade commander will be a Squadron Leader Steve Parker, who holds the post of Senior Air Traffic Control Officer at the airbase. The parade will include tri-service personnel from the unit and the Defence Helicopter Flying School. The RAF Shawbury wreath will be laid by the Station Commander, Group Captain Chris Luck.
At St Mary’s Church in Shawbury station personnel will attend a service in which a wreath will be laid by the Commandant of the Defence Helicopter Flying School, Captain Paul Shawcross RN.
Personnel from the airbase will also attend services at Market Drayton, Moreton Saye, Ludlow, Wem, Ellesmere, Stoke on Tern, Oswestry, Nesscliffe, Whitchurch and Kinnerley.
See our list of Shropshire remembrance services and acts of remembrance.
A Nation Remembers
In London, following the two minutes silence at 11am, the Queen will be the first to lay a wreath at the Cenotaph, followed by other members of the Royal Family, Prime Minister David Cameron, Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg, and opposition leader Ed Miliband.
