Town and communities are ready to remember the fallen

TOWN and communities across Carmarthenshire are getting ready to remember the fallen in Remembrance ceremonies.

Remembrance Day on Friday, November 11, will see wreaths laid by town and community leaders at war memorials across the county, while there will also be ceremonies and parades on Remembrance Sunday on November 13.

In Llanelli, the town’s veterans association will hold a short service in the grounds of Llanelli Parish Church at the 4th Welsh Memorial on Remembrance Day at 11am, where names of the fallen will be read out and wreaths laid.

On Remembrance Sunday, the town will honour those who have fallen in service over the decades. A number of roads will be closed on the day, including Murray Street, Church Street and Vauxhall Road from its junction with the mini roundabout.

Traffic will be diverted to Robinson Street, Arthur Street, Columbia Row, Anne Street, Bigyn Road, Stepney Place, Water Street, Thomas Street and Gelli Onn.

At 10am, police, organisations and others not marching in the parade will take up their respective positions in front of the cenotaph in the town hall grounds, while the civic party will assemble inside Llanelli Town Hall.

At 10.15am the parade leaves Drill Hall for the town hall with the mayor Cllr Philip Warlow proceeding to the Boer War Memorial where he will lay a wreath. This will be followed by the chair of Carmarthenshire Council Cllr Rob Evans, laying a wreath on the Royal Welch War Memorial and then on the town’s cenotaph.

More wreaths will be laid by dignitaries and politicians and ex-servicemen and women A twominute silence will then be observed at 11am.