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Remembrance Sunday and Armistice Day: North Norfolk remembers our fallen heroes

Stuart Anderson

Published: 2:10 PM November 11, 2019 Updated: 9:27 AM October 11, 2020

Pausing for thought outside Cromer church at the Remembrance Day commemorations 2019. Picture: Neil Didsbury - Credit: Archant

North Norfolk has paid its respects to our war dead at Remembrance Sunday and Armistice Day events.

Lest we forget. The Remembrance Day parade in Cromer set off from meadow car park to Cromer church. Picture: Neil Didsbury - Credit: Archant

Thousands of district residents attended marches, services and other ceremonies both on Sunday and Monday, the 101st anniversary of when the guns fell silent at the end of the First World War.

Past and present servicemen and woman, cadets, Royal British Legion members and others marched through towns including Cromer, Sheringham and Holt on Sunday before services were held at their town war memorials.

Bands played and prayers were said as attendees of all ages remembered those who paid the ultimate sacrifice so that we may live in peace.

And a service at North Walsham War Memorial Hospital on Monday remembered the 99 men from the town and 88 from surrounding villages who died in the First World War and inspired the foundation of the hospital.

The Remembrance Day parade march through the town on their way to a service at Cromer church. Picture: Neil Didsbury - Credit: Archant

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We will remember them. The Remembrance Day parade enter Cromer church. Picture: Neil Didsbury - Credit: Archant

A young Royal Air Force cadet acting as a standard-bearer at the Remembrance Day parade in Cromer. Picture: Neil Didsbury - Credit: Archant

The laying of poppy wreaths at the war memorial after a Remembrance Day service at Cromer church. Picture: Neil Didsbury - Credit: Archant

Poppy wreaths laid at the war memorial at Cromer Church for Remembrance Day 2019. Picture: Neil Didsbury - Credit: Archant

Representatives from the emergency services and RNLI were in attendance at the Remembrance Day commemoration in Cromer. Picture: Neil Didsbury - Credit: Archant

Laying wreaths at the war memorial at Cromer church for Remembrance Day 2019. Picture: Neil Didsbury - Credit: Archant

Friends of North Walsham War Memorial Hospital chairman Keith Jarvis, treasurer Carol Willgress and secretary Angie Batson lay a wreath for Armistice Day, 2019. Picture: Richard Batson - Credit: Archant