WELLINGTON’S annual Field of Remembrance at Wellington Baptist Church was dedicated by the Rev Sam Griffiths during a service held on Sunday morning.

Before the service members of the RBL Wellington branch had laid 96 wooden crosses of remembrance, each one representing a name on the war memorial in Wellington Park.

Following the service a brief silence was held, during which the Wellington branch standard dipped. Then, led by Wellington branch chairman Ray Filler, Mayor of Taunton Deane Cllr Vivienne Stock-Williams and Wellington town Mayor Cllr Bob Bowrah, officers and members of the RBL Wellington branch, Wellington town councillors and members of the public laid remembrance crosses.

The RBL Wellington branch would like to remind people that once remembrance time has concluded this year, the crosses will be taken from the Field of Remembrance and, along with those previously laid on the war graves in Wellington Cemetery by the children from Rockwell Green Primary School, they will be incinerated and their ashes will be scattered onto Wellington’s Garden of Remembrance at the park.

The RBL Wellington branch would like to thank everyone who attended the service and the Rev Sam Griffiths and everyone at Wellington Baptist Church for helping each year by setting up the Field of Remembrance at their church and for their kindness and hospitality shown following the service