HASLEMERE MP Jeremy Hunt joined town mayor Malcolm Carter and other dignitaries for the Remembrance Sunday service at St Bartholomew’s Church, and the following parade to the High Street war memorial.

Haslemere Rector Rev Mary Bowden led the 10am church service and also at the war memorial at 11am, to honour the sacrifices made and to pray for peace throughout the world. Town crier Christian Ashdown led the large parade from the church through the town, which included Haslemere Air Cadets, representatives from the emergency services, Scouts and Guides organisations, and town, borough and parish councils. Haslemere Town Band played at the packed High Street service, where the names of those who laid down their lives for their country in WWI and WWII were read out, as the different representatives laid wreaths. The parade then reformed to march to the High Street car park, where the mayor received a salute, and then to Haslemere Hall, where it was formally dismissed and those attending were given refreshments.

• SURREY County Council’s Remembrance Day commemorations featured a spectacular video of giant falling poppies screened cascading down the front of County Hall, in Kingston, on Friday.

Earlier, council leader Peter Martin. who represents Witley, led the Act of Remembrance attended by representatives from the Armed Forces before a bugler sounded The Last Post to herald the traditional two minute’s silence.

Hampshire county councillors and staff gathered at the war memorial next to Winchester’s Great Hall, on Friday, to pay their respects as chairman Graham Burgess led the Act of Remembrance. The county, has one of the UK’s largest military communities with around 20,000 serving personnel, and 60,000 veterans living in the county.

At Fernhurst, the village’s oldest resident Reg Parkhouse, who celebrates his 100th birthday this month, was among those who attended.