Hundreds lined the streets of Farnham town centre for the traditional Remembrance Sunday parade on Sunday morning.<br />The parade, including serving soldiers of the Princess of Wales Royal Regiment, left Castle Street in a thin drizzle of rain shortly after 10am for the service at the Gostrey Meadow war memorial.<br />Alder Valley Brass Band set the rhythm and all of the town’s uniformed cadet groups, scouting and other youth organisations marched alongside an array of community groups and civic representatives.<br />The mayor of Farnham, councillor Alan Earwaker, led the welcomes at the war memorial before chairman of the Farnham Royal British Legion branch, Davey Watters, explained What is Remembrance Sunday.<br />The deputy mayor of Waverley, John Ward, next read Taking a Stand by John Bailey before the Rector of Farnham, David Uffindell, began the morning’s service.<br />Deputy lieutenant of Surrey, Brigadier Roger Hood recited a line from Lawrence Binyon’s poem For the Fallen, with Eddie, representing the young people of Farnham, reading the next: “At the going down of the sun and in the morning. We will remember them.”<br />Bagpiper Hamish Robertson’s mournful lament led into The Last Post, played by bugler Steve Burgess of Alder Valley Brass, before an impeccably observed two-minute silence at 11am.<br />Reveille, again played by Steve Burgess, announced then end of the silence – followed by Alex Herd, of the British Legion, reading the Kohima Epitaph: “When you go home, tell them of us and say, for your tomorrow, we gave our today.”<br />Next was the laying of wreaths, announced by parade marshal Ian Hunter, and further hymns and readings by Revd Uffindell and Pastor Fortune Ncube of the Emmanuel Church.<br />The war memorial service finished with The Lord’s Prayer and National Anthem, and a final blessing by Revd Uffindell, before a salute was taken outside the town council offices by deputy lieutenant Brigadier Hood and the civic party.
