VETERANS, military personnel, residents and public figures will come together to remember the fallen today. 

A number of events will take place across Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole to mark Remembrance Sunday.

Poignant ceremonies will be held across the three towns on Sunday, November 10.

Attendees will fall silent when they gather to pay their respects to those who have given their service and sacrifice for their country’s freedoms.  

Bournemouth’s annual service of remembrance and parade will take place at the Cenotaph in the Central Gardens at 10.55am.

The commemoration will be attended by the Mayor of Bournemouth, Councillor George Farquhar and the Bournemouth Charter Trustees and civic dignitaries.

The parade will be led by The Salvation Army Band who will play the bugle alongside the Field Gun Display Team to mark the start and end of the two-minute silence. 

BCP Council said Braidley Road, Bourne Avenue and Avenue Road will be closed to vehicles from 9am until 1pm.

In Poole, parade will set off from the cricket pavilion at 10.30am to the War Memorial in Poole Park.

When arriving at the memorial, the parade will form into its positions where the remembrance service takes place at 11am.

The area in front of the memorial will be closed to the public.

Following the service, the parade will reform and march back to the Cricket Pavilion where it will be dismissed.

Poole Park will be closed to vehicles as per previous years.

Christchurch’s parade will take place between Bargates and Christchurch Priory via the High Street and is organised by BCP Council.

It consists of a parade overseen by the Royal British Legion and joined by a mayoral civic party alongside a service at the Priory.

A wreath laying ceremony will be held in the Garden of Remembrance at 10.15am followed by service in the Priory from 10.50am.

A rolling road closure is put in place between Bargates and the Priory for the procession outwards and also in reverse following the service.