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Rachel Clark

Perth to mark Remembrance Day

Perth will be marking Remembrance Day will events this weekend.

The annual Remembrance Sunday commemorations will begin at 9.40am on Sunday, November 10 with the military parade.

It will set off from Thimblerow down the Old High Street.

The civic parade with the provost, councillors, council officers and members of the High Constables of the City of Perth will then leave at 10.10am, led by Perth and District Pipe Band.

This parade will be processing from 2 High Street to St John’s Kirk for the service of remembrance at 10.30am.

Following on from the service, the military parade of local veterans, cadets and representatives from the Royal Regiment of Scotland, will form up for a march past and salute, taken by the lord-lieutenant, Stephen Leckie, on Tay Street.

The commemorations follow on to Monday, November 11 where the provost has been invited to attend the Bowerswell Remembrance service.

He will visit Bowerswell House for the service at 10.30am, and lay a wreath at the Bowerswell Memorial.

On the same day, Cllr Chris Ahern, Perth and Kinross Council’s armed forces and veterans champion, will lay a wreath at a short ceremony at Pullar House at the Pullars War Memorial at 11am.

Provost Dennis Melloy said: “We owe our veterans and serving forces personnel a great debt of gratitude and each yar we are proud to remember those who gave their lives in conflict to preserve our freedoms.

“Remembrance Sunday is a day to reflect on their sacrifices and pay tribute to them all.”

This comes after the provost, deputy lord-lieutenant of Perth and Kinross, the Earl of Kinnoull, and representatives from the armed forces and veterans’ associations lay wreaths earlier today (Friday, November 8) at the 51st Highland Memorial on the North Inch Perth.

The group also attended at the Mercat Cross in the city centre for the Poppyscotland remembrance event, where the provost laid a wreath and the crowd observed a two-minute silence at 11am.

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