CREDITON Town Council and the First Crediton Scout Group will be playing their part in “Battle’s Over”, an international commemoration to mark 100 years since the guns fell silent at the end of World War One, on Sunday, November 11.

The Crediton event will begin at 6.40pm at Beacon Park, (Top of George Hill, opposite Upper Deck), Crediton, with an introduction by the Mayor of Crediton, Councillor Frank Letch, who will also read a List of the Fallen.

At 6.55pm there will then be the sounding of “The Last Post”.

At 7pm there will be, as part of the international commemoration, the Lighting of the Beacon.

At 7.05pm the Crediton Town Crier will read the specially written, “Cry for Peace Around the World”.

The Crediton event is being organised by Crediton Town Council with support from the First Crediton Scouts, Crediton Army Cadets and Crediton Fire Service.

Organised by Pageantmaster Bruno Peek LVO OBE OPR, “Battle’s Over” will see events throughout the United Kingdom, Channel Islands, the Isle of Man, and at scores of locations overseas, including New Zealand, Ireland, Australia, Bermuda, France, Belgium, Canada, the United States and Germany, to name but a few.

At 6.55pm buglers will sound the “Last Post” at more than 1,000 locations, where at 7pm beacons will be lit in a tribute called Beacons of Light, signifying the light of peace that emerged from the darkness of four years of war.

Then at 7.05pm more than 1,000 church and cathedrals will ring their bells as part of Ringing Out for Peace organised in association with the Central Council of Church Bell Ringers, which represents 65 societies of ringers from the British Isles and overseas.

Also at 7.05pm, more than 140 town criers will perform “Cry for Peace Around the World”, the first of them in New Zealand and then across the globe through the various time zones.

Debbie Richards, Group Scout Leader of the First Crediton Scout Group said: “We are proud to be playing a part in this historic international event to commemorate the centenary of the end of the Great War, and to recognise the contribution and sacrifice made by the men and women from our own community.”