RESIDENTS across Kingston will be commemorating Remembrance Sunday on November 14.
A day of events is taking place across the borough to help raise money for the British Legion's annual poppy appeal.
The first official Legion poppy day was held in Britain on November 11, 1921, inspired by the poem 'Flanders Fields' written by John McCrae.
After the fighting in World War One in the Flanders and Picardy regions of Belgium and Northern France, the poppy was the only thing which grew in the aftermath.
New Malden: The service at the War Memorial will begin at 9.45am. An additional service is to be held at Christ Church at 10.45am.
If the weather is particularly bad the service at the War memorial will be cancelled and held in the Methodist Church instead.
Kingston: A procession will start at 10.37am from the Guildhall to the War memorial, where there will be a short service and the laying of the wreaths.
At 11.15am another service will be held at the All Saints Parish Church.
Following the service the procession will return to the Guildhall where the remembrance Day Commemorations will be concluded with a march outside the Guildhall.
The Mayor will be attending services at New Malden and Kingston.
Surbiton: The Surbiton service will take place at the War Memorial in Ewell Road at 10.45am and finish at approximately 11.30am with a parade marching from the Surbiton British Legion, in Hollyfield Road into Ewell Road, past the War memorial and then returning back down Ewell Road where the deputy mayor will take the salute at the Surbiton Hill Methodist church as they go past.
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