SERVICES to remember the fallen in the two world wars and other conflicts will be held in the Musselburgh area.

Musselburgh’s annual Remembrance commemoration will take place this Sunday.

A parade of organisations will assemble at the Town Hall at 10.30am, before marching off at 10.40am.

Those taking part include war veterans, local RAF Air, Army, Sea and Royal Marines Cadets, the Boys’ Brigade, Masonic Lodge, police, elected members of East Lothian Council, Musselburgh and Inveresk Community Council members, representatives from Musselburgh Grammar School, Musselburgh Rugby Club, Rotary Club of Musselburgh, Old Musselburgh Club and members of the public.

They will make their way along High Street to the police station, where the salute will be taken by Iain Clark, Deputy Lieutenant for East Lothian.

The parade will then turn left onto Dalrymple Loan, where a service of Remembrance will be held in St Michael’s Church Hall.

Afterwards there will be a short service at the Second World War memorial on High Street, where wreaths will be laid, including by Mr Clark.

Refreshments will then be served at the nearby Hollies Community Hub.

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The men from Wallyford, Smeaton and Deantown (now Whitecraig) who lost their lives in the First World War will also be remembered at a Remembrance Day service at the Crookston war memorial on Monday at 10.45am.

Pipe Major Lee Moore, from Preston Lodge High School Pipe Band, will play a musical tribute at the memorial inside the gates of Inveresk cemetery at St Michael’s Parish Church.

Wallyford resident Alister Hadden, who will preside over the event, will welcome those attending at 10.50am, before giving an account of the history of the Crookston war memorial. Poppy wreaths will be laid, including one by the Hadden family, whose uncle James Hadden is named on the memorial.

The 59 names of the soldiers from 1914 to 1919 on the memorial will be read out by Mr Hadden, Ivor Highley from Musselburgh, and Andrew Edmonds from Whitecraig.

Royal Navy veteran and Musselburgh resident Karl Cleghorn, who is originally from Wallyford, will recite For the Fallen, a poem by Laurence Binyon, and The Last Post will be played on the bugle by Wallyford resident Simon Lowden at 11am.

Musselburgh Sea Cadets and Royal Marines Cadets will lower their colours and a two-minute silence will be observed at 11am. The Reveille will be played by Mr Lowden.

Pastor Andrew Agnew, of the Wallyford Livingroom Church, will recite the poem In Flanders Fields, by John McCrae, and Mr Highley will share the words of the poet Sir Henry Newbolt.

The hymn Abide With Me will be sung, before a Christian reading is given by Mr Highley.

Jim McLean, who provides the sound system at the event, and Mr Hadden will lead the song When The Battle’s Over.

Mr Cleghorn will then recite the words of the Kohima Epitaph, which is carved on the Memorial of the 2nd British Division in Kohima War Cemetery, north-east India.

The commemoration will end with the national anthem and a lament played by Pipe Major Moore.

A local poppy collection in aid of the Royal British Legion has been organised by Musselburgh & Inveresk Community Council. Boxes and cans have been placed in local shops and schools.

Musselburgh Sea Cadets & Royal Marines Cadets are also selling poppies and will be out and about in Musselburgh this Saturday.