Yeovil joins the nation - We Will Remember Them

SHOPPERS, office and shop workers and those who wanted to pay their respects gathered in Yeovil town centre this morning (Monday, November 11, 2013) to mark Armistice Day.

The siren at AgustaWestland sounded to start a two-minute silence at 11am to commemorate the moment when the guns went quiet to signify the end of the First World War.

A short service preceded the silence which was attended by civic dignitaries including the Mayor, Cllr Manny Roper, and other members of Yeovil Town Council and Armed Forces charities.

During the service a passage from the famous poem The Fallen, written by Robert Laurence Binyon, was read.

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old;

Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning

We will remember them.

 Among those in the Borough to pay their respects were veterans of the Armed Forces and those still serving.

PHOTO - ABOVE: The Armistice Day service in the Borough, Yeovil, today (November 11, 2013).

PHOTO - RIGHT: Just a fraction of the names of men from Yeovil killed during the First World War.

The two-minute silence – only broken by the noise a crying baby and the unfortunate rumbling of a van or taxi going by – was ended with the siren at AgustaWestland sounding once again.

The names of 226 men from Yeovil who were killed during the First World War are inscribed on the memorial in The Borough.

PHOTO - ABOVE: The Mayor of Yeovil, Cllr Manny Roper, inspects some of the wreaths which were placed during yesterday's Remembrance Day ceremony on Sunday, November 20, 2013.

PHOTO - ABOVE: Some of the wreaths at the War Memorial at the Borough in Yeovil.

PHOTO - ABOVE: Stewart Bratherton, of the Royal Marines, left, and former Royal Navy man Rob Smith, now of Yeovil firm Fit & Furnish, at the Armistice Day service at the War Memorial in Yeovil today (Monday, November 11, 2013).

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