Published: Saturday, 7th November, 2009 8:00am

We shall remember them

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A guide to the services which honour the fallen in war

HUNDREDS will be gathering tomorrow (Sunday) for traditional Remembrance day services in tribute to those who gave their lives in the World Wars and recent conflicts.

* In Slough town centre the borough's mayor, Cllr Joginder Bal will lead the annual Act of Remembrance.

The service starts at 10.45am in the Town Square and ends with a wreath laying ceremony at the War Memorial at St Mary's Church in Church Street.

* In Windsor, at 10.45am the mayor of the Royal Borough, Cllr Jesse Grey, will lead the Act of Remembrance at the War Memorial in High Street, where wreaths will be laid.

Rev Mary Barnes will officiate both at the War Memorial and at the service which will follow in the Parish Church. Local ex-service men and women and uniformed youth organisations will be attending. The Last Post will be sounded just before 11am, followed by the silence and Reveille.

Drivers are advised to avoid Park Street, High Street, River Street, Goswell Road, Osborne Road, Alma Road, Claremont Road and Sheet Street between 10.30am and noon.

* In Maidenhead the deputy mayor, Cllr Catherine Bursnall, will lead the civic party for the Act of Remembrance and wreath-laying at the War Memorial, St Ives Road. Starting at 10.50am.

The service of remembrance will follow in the Borough Church of St Mary, conducted by Rev Will Stileman, followed by a march past with the salute taken by Cllr Bursnall outside the Town Hall. Motorists are advised to avoid the High Street, St Ives Road and Bridge Avenue area from 10am to 11.20am and from 12.30pm to 1pm.

* At 10.15am a British Legion parade will go from the British Legion headquarters in Gore Road, Burnham, down the High Street to the War Memorial on the Green followed by a wreath laying ceremony and afterwards a Remembrance Service at St Peter's Church, Church Street.

* The Datchet branch of the Royal British Legion will be holding its annual parade and service in St Mary's Church at 10am and on The Green by the War Memorial at 11am.

On Armistice Day (Wednesday) the Mayor will attend a short ceremony at the War Memorial outside the Town Hall, Maidenhead, while at the Guildhall, High Street, Windsor, the Deputy Mayor will carry out a similar duty.

At the Town Hall the traditional ceremonial cannon will be fired prior to 11am. l At Langley Memorial Park (opposite Harrow Shopping Centre) a service starts at 11am and the parade to the War Memorial leaves from Christ the Worker Church, Parlaunt Road, Langley at 10.40am.

* In the other services in Slough worshippers will meet at 10.50am for a ceremony at Slough's oldest church, St Laurence's. A two minute silence will proceed a church service.

A service starts at 10am at St Mary's Church, Church Lane, Wexham. At the Stoke Road War Memorial a service starts at 10am outside Baylis House

At St Pauls Church, Stoke Road - Rev Mike Cotteral will be leading worshippers through the ceremony from 10.30am and at St Ethelbert's Church, Wellington Street a Remebrance Service starts at 10am.

* In South Bucks in Sunday at 10.35am people will assemble at the War Memorial at the bottom of Church Road in Farnham Royal to lay wreaths, followed by a Remembrance Service at St Mary's Church, Farnham Royal.

There will be a service from 10.50am at St Mary's Church, Hedgerley.

There will be all-age worship at 10am and the Act of Remembrance will be around the War Memorial at 10.55am before a service at St Peter's Church in Thorney Lane North, Iver, at 11.05am.

A Remembrance Service will also be at St Leonard's Church, St Leonard's Walk, Richings Park at 10am followed by the Act of Remembrance at 11am.

Walkers in Iver Heath will leave the British Legion Club in Church Road at 10.30am before walking to St Margaret's Church for a service which starts with a two minute silence at 10.58am.

A service at St Giles' Church in Church Lane, Stoke Poges, will be at 10.50am where wreaths will be laid.

On Wednesday there will be a commemoration of six of the local fallen from World War One at The Flagpole on Hollybush Hill, Stoke Poges from 10.30am.

Local schoolchildren will attend to lay a poppy cross.

The service of Remembrance will be at St Nicolas Church, Rectory Road, Taplow, at 10.15am followed by the Act of Remembrance and laying of wreaths at the War Memorial in the churchyard.