Wreath-laying tributes are planned throughout Aberdeenshire
Remembrance parades and services to be held
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Wreath-laying ceremonies and services of remembrance will be held in towns and villages throughout Aberdeenshire tomorrow .
Inverurie town-centre will be temporarily closed as an annual Armistice Parade makes its way from the Royal British Legion Scotland in Victoria Street at 8.45am to join the 9.30am Remembrance Service in St Andrew’s Church.
Following the service the parade will return to the town’s war memorial, with the heart of the town again closed to traffic as tributes are laid and the community joins in a two minutes’ silence in memory of those who gave their lives for their country.
At Ellon, the annual service will be held in the town’s Old Academy as the parish church is undergoing renovation. A parade will leave the school at 10.10am to march to the war memorial in the Square. Following the wreath-laying ceremony, a church service will be held in the academy assembly hall.
At Alford, the Remembrance Sunday service will be held at 9.30am, followed by the a 10.50am act of remembrance at the village’s Parkhill Road war memorial. Similar tributes will take place across Donside at monuments at Tullynessle at 11.30am and Keig at noon.
At Whiterashes’ All Saints’ Church tomorrow a 3pm open-to-all service will include readings, poetry and tributes to war dead from across the scattered community.
At Stonehaven, a parade will leave Market Square at around 10.20am arriving at the town’s South Church in time for the service at 10.50am. The parade will then reform to march back to the square and head to the war memorial for a wreath-laying ceremony.
