Penarth veterans are completing plans for a weekend of Remembrance.

This year's Penarth Remembrance Day Parade will be held on Sunday, 10 November, as this date is the closest Sunday to the 11th of November - the traditional Armistice Day.

Since 2014 veterans have been working in collaboration with the town's Royal British Legion and a committee of members of the Penarth Ex Services Club to ensure 'the Act of Remembrance' remains a special occasion in the town calendar. 

The veterans team is a group of serving and veteran military personnel from all arms of His Majesty's Armed Forces - the Royal Navy, the British Army, and the Royal Air Force.

The committee is formed solely from volunteers who are devoted to ensuring the Remembrance Sunday tradition is not only celebrated appropriately but is preserved for the future.

The other main aim of the committee is to ensure that the Penarth Remembrance Day Parade remains a community event; a festival of Remembrance that the town is both a part of and takes pride in.

Penarth has a proud history of military involvement, most notably at least two Victoria Cross recipients. The committee is proud of its links with both the military and the community in which they reside. Once again we are particularly pleased with the continuing involvement of Penarth's schools.

Timings for the day.

 People should arrive at Rectory Road for 09.45hrs.

Proceedings commence at the Garden of Remembrance at 10.10am where wreaths will be laid.

A march through the town to All Saints Church for the Act of Remembrance follows. People should be at the church for 10.45am.

After Church Parade participants will march through the town to Penarth Ex Serviceman's Club, where the parade will fall out and join together less formally to raise a toast to absent friends.

Greg Olphert, on behalf of Penarth veterans, says: "It is our sincere hope that the community of Penarth and the wider Vale community come together on Sunday, 10 November and join us along the route or at any of the locations above, and after the parade at the Ex-Servicemen's club."