THE memory of those who died for their country in conflicts around the world will be honoured at services across the Vale of Evesham today and on Sunday.

Evesham branch Royal British Legion is holding a short service at the War Memorial in Abbey Park, Evesham, today. The mayor and mayoress, Councillor Andrew and Mrs Wendy Dyke, and town clerk Frank Green, will join war veterans to mark the silence at 11am.

Also today at Pershore, all ex-servicemen and women are invited to muster at Pershore Cemetery gates at 10.45am . Just before 11am the Royal British Legion will lay a single wreath and the Cross of Sacrifice and a wreath will be laid by a member of the Canadian Armed Forces to commemorate the many Canadian servicemen buried in the Cemetery. The Last Post will signal the start of the two minutes silence and Reveille at the end. The exhortation and prayers will complete the ceremony.

On Sunday members of Evesham Town Council will meet at 10.30am to attend a short Service of Remembrance and a wreath laying ceremony at the War Memorial in Abbey Park along with representatives of various town organisations.

There they will be joined by the annual parade of uniformed organisations together with the ex-servicemen and women representing those who served in the various branches of the armed forces.

The wreath laying will be followed by the Service of Remembrance at All Saints' Church. Afterwards the parade will march to Market Square for the dismissal.

On Sunday, the Pershore parade will muster in the High Street car park at 10.20am, marching at 10.30am to the Abbey via High Street, Broad Street, Church Walk and Church Row for a service starting at 10.55am conducted by the Rev Kenneth Crawford, Father John Walsh and Rev Mark Fairweather Tall, honorary padres to the Pershore branch RBL. Wreaths will be laid on the War memorial during the service.

Afterwards the parade will return to the High Street car park and the salute will be taken in Broad Street.

There will be a ceremony at the War memorial in Broadway at 10.15am Sunday for the laying of wreaths.

The parade will then proceed to the church of St Michael and All Angels for a united service starting at 1045am conducted by the Vicar of Broadway the Rev Terry Mason and including the silence.

A service at St Thomas' Church, Lower Moor, part of the Fladbury 5 Churches, starts at 10.50am and the silence will be marked at 11am.

Wreaths will be paid by parish old soldiers and the parish council on behalf of the community. Poppy crosses will be placed in the church lawn in the run-up to the service by parishioners.