Thousands remember the fallen

Monday 10th November 2008, 11:25AM GMT.

British Legion Standard Bearer Rose Snell and Private Anthony Heatley awaiting the start of the Whitchurch service. Picture by Star reader Mrs Julie James Thoughts of poppies, prayers and memories of war heroes who lost their lives in conflict brought Shropshire and Mid Wales to a standstill on Remembrance Sunday.

People came out in their thousands yesterday, regardless of the poor weather, to remember the brave soldiers who fought and died for the country.

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With poppies on coats and wreaths surrounding memorials across the area, it was a day to reflect and remember their courage.

Parades and services took place across the region as veterans remembered their fallen comrades and people honoured those who had made the ultimate sacrifice.

A civic procession in Shrewsbury brought young and old together before moving on to a wreath-laying ceremony at the War Memorial in The Quarry.

In Oswestry, former soldiers stood shoulder to shoulder at the town’s service of remembrance, before moving on to parade past Cae Glas Park gates war memorial to St Oswald’s Church for a service.

Members of the Tern Hill-based Royal Irish Regiment also paraded through Market Drayton to commemorate the occasion.

Owen Paterson, North Shropshire MP, laid a wreath and said the event was “tremendous”. “I think it’s a brilliant tribute to them, the way they got stuck into the community and came up to the Royal British Legion afterwards,” he said.

A Remembrance Sunday service was also held at Cardeston Church, Shrewsbury, this weekend.

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