REMEMBRANCE DAY

A round-up of the weekend’s events

THOUSANDS of people gathered across South Devon on Sunday to remember the fallen.

Remembrance events in towns and villages drew crowds.

Elsewhere many people simply stopped what they were doing to observe two minutes of silence at 11am, 100 years to the moment the guns fell silent to mark the end of the First World War.

Veterans and schoolchildren stood together beside war memorials, sports events paused and people in supermarkets stood still and observed the silence.

At the major events there were large crowds, swelled by the significance of the centenary of the end of the war.

In Paignton schoolchildren carried 224 candles, one for every name on the town’s war memorial.

In Torquay cadets marched alongside veterans and civic dignitaries. Torbay MP Kevin Foster, Torbay Council chair-

man Ian Doggett and mayor Gordon Oliver were among

those taking part in the event on the seafront.

Brixham’s parade saw the standards carried from the harbour to the war memorial in Berry Head Road, where crowds gathered.

The crew of the Torbay Lifeboat also played their part in the event, mustering on the deck of the lifeboat before heading out of the harbour to mark the event at sea.

Firefighters and emergency services took part in the procession in Totnes, while events in Teignmouth and Newton Abbot were also well attended.