A crisp bright day today with the same timeless scenario played out at the Cenotaph and every war memorial in city or village alike. Timeless perhaps is the operative word as bizarrely our town ceremony, with a service relayed from the church in the grounds of which the memorial is sited, observed the silence two minutes ahead of the rest of the nation. Thus it ended as the church clock chimed eleven o'clock. Easier than stopping it chiming perhaps?
After the wreath laying the Service Associations, Cadets, Scouts and other voluntary organisations marched past the Lord Lieutenant of West Sussex, Mrs Susan Pyper, led by a very impressive ATC Pipe Band. A very good turnout, again mirroring the National Ceremony.