AFTER the service in Crediton Parish Church on Remembrance Sunday morning (November 13), most of the congregation walked to the Crediton Town and Hamlets War Memorial on Union Road for the Act of Remembrance and wreath laying.

Crediton Town Band had led the parade and Rector the Rev Matthew Tregenza officiated, using a PA system for the first time.

Welcoming everyone he said this civic service this year had a poignancy being the first Act of Remembrance under a new Monarch.

He thanked the Town Band and all those who had worked so hard to make this Act of Remembrance possible.

There was a new Parade Marshal this year, Dave Bond an ex-Warrant Officer in the Queen’s Hussars, the Cavalry, and who is now an adult instructor for Crediton Detachment Army Cadet Force. He lives at Cheriton Fitzpaine.

After the wreath laying all the contingent marched down to the town square where the salute was taken by Cllr Liz Brookes-Hocking, Mayor of Crediton and chairman of the town council and Cllr John Stevens, chairman of Hamlets Council.

Almost 30 wreaths were laid that morning, adding to those already at the War Memorial.

They included Crediton Town Band, the Catholic Community in Crediton, Unity Craft and Unity Lodge Freemasons, Holy Cross Church Crediton, Crediton Probus, Crediton Church Choir, Ladies Circle, plus a few personal tributes.

by Sue Read