Remembrance service marks Armistice Day in the square

* Legion branch chair Mike Adams, left, with the Mayor, Cllr Damon Richards-Gwilliam, in front of the two war memorials.

The Royal British Legion's Llangollen branch organised a short Service of Remembrance to mark Armistice Day, when the guns of the First World War fell silent on November 11, 1918, in Centenary Square this morning.

Taking its cue from the tolling of the eleventh hour on the Town Hall clock, the traditional two minutes' silence was observed, the RBL standard was lowered by its bearer and extracts from the poem For the Fallen and the Kohima Epitaph were read by branch chairman Mike Adams.

The Town Mayor and Deputy Mayor, Councillor Damon Richards-Gwilliam and Cllr Charlie Jones, were both present and a small gathered around the square to watch the moving ceremony take place.   

* The Legion branch standard is ceremonially lowered during the service as those on parade stand to attention.