To fallen heroes

take hold, for another heart to break, a life to change. Four years, five months and 13 days of seconds.

“This is my commandment, that you love another as I have loved you. No-one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.

“Second by second then people, live on, remember, mourn, remember, rebuild, remember.”

After the service which included the hymn I vow to thee My Country and the playing of the national anthem, wreaths were laid by a number of organisations including the Royal British Legion, the Royal Navy, the Army and the Royal Air Force as well as by representatives of the Sikh and Muslim communities.

Major Steve Armitage, chairman of Huddersfield Army Veterans, said: “The turnout has been fantastic. Going back to the 1970s when I used to come up as a serving officer there were, perhaps, only a handful of us, maybe as few as eight. Today there must have been more than 1,000 people.”

Kirklees councillor Carole Pattison, (Greenhead, Lab), said: “It’s been a wonderful turnout and it was nice that the sun came out at just the right time. It was lovely to see so many children too.”

The Mayor of Kirklees, Gwen Lowe, attended the Batley Remembrance Sunday Service which was just one of many such services held across the borough.

Mirfield also hosted a parade which assembled at Lowlands Road from lunchtime for a march later, to a service and wreath laying which took place at the War Memorial in Ings Grove Park.