The Mayor will be present at the war memorial at 11:00 for the two minutes' silence, but our local parade has been moved to 18:30 so that a beacon can be lit. Can't help feeling that something's not right about that...
My family was lucky: no deaths, although Uncle Frank went to France in early 1918 and was back by the summer without a leg. Other uncles served in the Second World War (one pre-war Coldstreamer, apparently at Dunkirk and El Alamein, another was in tanks) and came through apparently unscathed.