Every vantage point was taken as crowds flocked to Alton's Remembrance Sunday service at the Cairn War Memorial. Veterans and uniformed groups bearing their standards paraded from the Market Square to the High Street for the service. The service opened with the Call to Remembrance, reminding everyone how at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month the guns fell silent on the Western Front to bring to an end the First World War. Next came seven Prayers of Intercession, for all who suffer as a result of conflict, followed by the Lord’s Prayer. The congregation sang the hymn O God, Our Help In Ages Past before a Bible lesson and an address. Then a bugler played the Last Post, signalling the start of the two minutes’ silence at 11am. Reveille ended the silence and for the next quarter of an hour a steady stream of representatives of various organisations laid poppy wreaths in front of the Cairn to remember those who died in the two World Wars and subsequent conflicts.
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