Remembrance Day parades and services across greater Bristol area
In Bristol city centre 30 members of the Royal Marines Reserves, many of whom have served in Afghanistan with their regular counterparts, will form an honour guard and parade at the cenotaph.
RMR Bristol is the lead unit for this year's ceremony, which includes other Bristol-based military personnel.
The parade will form outside the Council House in College Green at 10.15am and begin the march through the city at 10.20am, to arrive at the cenotaph at 10.37am.
The Lord Mayor of Bristol Chris Davies will arrive by horse-drawn carriage at 10.50am.
Personnel from the Royal Naval Reserves, Bristol University Air Squadron, the Territorial Army's 39 Signals Regiment and the Royal Marines Reserves will serve as cenotaph sentries.
The Territorial Army's 266 Commando Battery Royal Artillery will fire a single round to mark the beginning of the two minute silence at 11am and another to mark the end.
The Last Post will be played by a bugler from the Royal Marines Band, who will also play the Reveille at the end of the ceremony.
The service of remembrance will be conducted by the Bishop of Bristol Mike Hill.
The president of the Royal British Legion will recite Laurence Binyon's Ode to the Fallen and a piper from the City of Bristol Pipes & Drums will play the Lament.
The president will then recite the Kohima Epitaph.
Representatives of the Jewish, Muslim and Sikh communities of Bristol will also take part.
The Merchant Navy Association will be holding a service at their memorial in Welsh Back on Sunday following the main parade in the city centre.
Members will walk over ready for the Rev Philip Auden, senior chaplain from the Mission to Seafarers at Royal Portbury Dock, to start a short service to remember those that lost their lives while serving on Merchant Navy ships.
Services and parades will take place throughout Bristol, South Gloucestershire, North Somerset and Bath and North East Somerset.
A helmet worn by a soldier in the trenches will form the centrepiece of a special floral tribute at All Saints Parish Church in Pembroke Road, Clifton.
Priest-in-charge of the church, Reverend Richard Hoyal, said: "The death this July of Harry Patch, the last fighting Tommy, placed a new emphasis on our memories of those lost in the carnage of the Great War. Now we must remember them on behalf of those no longer here themselves to remember first-hand.
"On Remembrance Sunday we will also be commemorating, in addition to the fallen of World War II, those lost in current operations in Afghanistan and other post-1945 conflicts, notably in Korea, Malaya, Northern Ireland, the Falklands, the Balkans and Iraq."
The traditional Act of Remembrance will be performed at the Calvary war memorial outside the church at 10.45am on Remembrance Sunday.
Three days later – on Armistice Day, Wednesday, November 11 – Father Hoyal will lead a public act of remembrance at the St John's war memorial prominent at the junction of Whiteladies Road and Apsley Road.
In Staple Hill, the Salvation Army Band will lead the parade from the Royal British Legion in Kendall Road to Page Park, where a service will be held at 11am.
The parade will begin at 10.35am and will pass along the Staple Hill High Street at 10.40am. Serving soldiers home on leave are invited to take part.
Last year, more than 3,000 people attended the service in Page Park.
Westbury-on-Trym village will be closed to traffic on Sunday for the annual parade from Holy Trinity Church at 10.30am to the war memorial, where wreaths will be laid and a service held at 11am. In Whitchurch there will be a parade of more than 100 veterans, sea cadets and Scouts at 10.15am to St Nicholas Church, where a service will be held at 10.40am.
A lone bagpiper will accompany the Royal British Legion parade through Keynsham on Sunday.
The marchers will set off from Ashton Way at 9.20am and go along the High Street to St John's Baptist Church, where the names of the fallen will be read out.
The parade will then reassemble in Station Road to march to Keynsham's Memorial Park, where a wreath will be placed at the memorial gates and a two-minute silence will be held.
Prayers will be led by Reverend Christopher Penn and Reverend Simon Howell.
Long Ashton Royal British Legion has organised a concert with Chepstow Male Voice Choir and Downs School Chamber Choir, which will be held at All Saints Church in the village tonight at 7.30pm.
On Sunday, the Remembrance Day parade will set off from Keedwell Hill at 10am to All Saints Church for a service at 10.45am.
On November 11, a service of remembrance will be held at 11am in the Royal British Legion Memorial Garden in Long Ashton Road.
In Yate, members of the Royal British Legion will be joined by town councillors for the annual parade from Poole Court to St Mary's Church for a 10am service.
There will also be a remembrance service at St James Church in Westerleigh at 10am, and in Chipping Sodbury there will be a parade at 2.30pm from the top of the High Street to the war memorial for a 3pm service.
In Thornbury, Father Alex McAllister will lead the Remembrance Day service at St Mary's Church in the town at 2.30pm.
Eden Grove Methodist Church in Horfield will hold a service to remember those who have given their lives in conflict at 10.30am on Sunday.
Angela Galloway, who returned from Kandahar in Afghanistan in September after serving for six months, will place a wreath at the war memorial.
The Kingswood and Hanham branch of the Royal British Legion will lead the service at Holy Trinity Church, Kingswood.
It will follow a parade starting from Cecil Road car park at 2.30pm and a short wreath laying ceremony at the war memorial.
Other outdoor services will be held at the war memorials in Warmley at 10.30am and in Hanham at noon.
Portishead Royal British Legion will hold its annual parade with the town band, marching from Stoke Road at 10.15am on Sunday to St Peter's Church. There will also be a short service on November 11 at 11am in Portishead Precinct.
Weston-super-Mare's annual Remembrance Day service takes place in Grove Park on Sunday at 11am.
The parade will begin in the High Street at 10.15am.
In Frampton Cotterell the parade leaves the Royal British Legion Club in Ryecroft Road, at 2.30pm for a service at Frampton Cotterell Parish Church at 3pm.
Backwell and Flax Bourton branch of the Royal British Legion will march at St Andrew's Church in Backwell, at 10.15am on Sunday. The wreath-laying ceremony will follow at the War Memorial.
A two-minute silence will be observed at Backwell War Memorial, Church Lane, on Wednesday, November 11, at 11am. Assembly from 10.50am.
In Nailsea the Royal British Legion service is on Sunday at Holy Trinity Church at 10.30am.
A parade starts at Holy Trinity Church Hall car park at 10.15am with the Guide and Scout band. The wreath laying is at 10.30am at the war memorial outside the church.
At 11am on November 11, Nailsea Town Council is holding a service at Somerset Square.
The Royal British Legion Clevedon Branch is also holding a Festival of Remembrance today at the Community Centre, at 7.30pm.
There will also be displays by the air and army cadets. Admission is £5 and tickets are available from the community centre on 01275 878448. All proceeds will go to the Poppy Appeal.
Clevedon's Remembrance Day parade and service will take place on Sunday, at St Andrew's Church, starting at 3pm.
In Midsomer Norton the parade will assemble at the United Services Club at 10.30am, setting off at 10.45 am for the War Memorial in the High Street where wreaths will be laid.
A service will take place at St.John's Church at 11.10am.
In Radstock the wreath laying will take place at the memorial near the museum at 2.30pm.
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