Hundreds attend Haywards Heath Remembrance Service
Hundreds flocked to Haywards Heath to experience the Remembrance Sunday service to commemorate those who had fallen in battle.
The service, conducted by Reverend Ray Smith, was attended by members of the Armed Forces, The Royal British Legion, the 172 Squadron and youth organisations.
Members of the public admired the 10,000 handmade poppies created by volunteers in Haywards Heath for the River of Poppies project.
James Knight, Town Mayor, said: “I’m always thinking about the people who have died so young, who have sacrificed their lives, who have not had lives and not had a family.
“Some of these people were gone at 18-years-old and it’s terrible.”
Kevin Bourne, a Falklands War veteran, said: “I think it’s important that generations understand that people who they know and love have been out to extraordinary places and done things that in the normal walk of life you would not think about.”
After the service, the public were invited to join dignitaries in a parade where they took the salute.
The day concluded with a lantern procession in the evening from Muster Green to Victoria Park to mark the day when the guns fell silent at the end of World War One.
