PEOPLE are invited to attend a remembrance service at the Crookston war memorial in tribute to the men from Wallyford, Smeaton and Deantown (now Whitecraig) who lost their lives in the First World War.
The annual Armistice Day service takes place on Monday, November 11, at 10.45am at the memorial, just inside the gates of Inveresk cemetery at St Michael’s Parish Church.
The names of the fallen will be read out and The Last Post will be sounded. A two-minute silence will be observed at 11am and the Reveille will be played. Music will include the hymn Abide With Me and the song When The Battle’s Over. The poem In Flanders Fields by John McCrae will be recited at the event.
The Kohima Epitaph, which is carved on the Memorial of the 2nd British Division in the cemetery of Kohima, in North-East India, will also be read out. The ceremony will end with the national anthem.
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