A LARGE crowd gathered on Remembrance Sunday at the war memorial in Bradworthy for a service led by the Rev Richard Freeman.

Cllr Allan Grubb laid a wreath on behalf of the parish council and Barry Radford read the names of the fallen from both the First World War and World War Two, whilst the Last Post and Reveille were sounded by Samuel Odlin on the trombone.

A united service followed, in St John the Baptist Church, which was again led by Rev Richard Freeman. The Methodist Minister Rev John Peak gave an address and the organist was Malcolm Woodcock.

The first reading, given by Richard Boughton, was ‘The short but terrible rush…’ an extract from the diary of Pte William Roberts of the 18th Durham Light Infantry who was killed in action in 1917, aged 23.

The second reading, given by Shirley-Ann Andrews, was ‘On Somme’ by poet Ivor Gurney, who was wounded in the Somme and suffered from severe shell shock after the war.

The service finished with the choir, conducted by Malcolm Pike, accompanied on clarinet by Shirley-Ann Andrews and Malcolm Woodcock on keyboard singing ‘John Condon’, the story of a young Irish soldier.