PEOPLE from across Brighton and Sussex have paid their respects to the fallen for Remembrance Day.

Dozens of people lined the perimeter of Brighton’s War Memorial and Garden of Remembrance for the annual service and two-minute silence to remember members of the armed forces killed in action.

Mayor of Brighton and Hove Alan Robins, his Chaplain Reverend Martin Poole and Father Jim Horton led the service with prayers.

A bugle, played by a member of the Salvation Army, heralded the start of the silence with the Last Post.

Mayor Robins placed a wreath at the war memorial and at the Obelisk opposite it, both adorned with the message: “The people of Brighton and Hove will never forget the sacrifice you made.”

Representatives of the police as well as local councillors were also present at the event this morning.

Brighton’s war memorial, built in 1922, is inscribed with the names of 2,597 men and three women from the city who were killed during the First World War.

The two-minute silence marks the exact moment on November 11, 1918 that hostilities came to an end in the ‘Great War’, where an agreement was reached between Germany and the Allied nations “on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month”.

Since the first commemoration the following year, services on Remembrance Day and Remembrance Sunday pay tribute to all those killed in combat, including from the Second World War, the Falklands War, the Gulf War and the recent conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq.

This year’s service was the first since coronavirus restrictions were lifted almost in their entirety, with many encouraged to pay their respects from home last year to prevent the spread of the virus.

Further services and parades will take place across Brighton and Hove, Sussex and the country on Sunday.

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