THE people of Wellington will be able to show their support for members of the Armed Forces and their families in a series of events in the lead up to Remembrance Sunday.

The town branch of the Royal British Legion (RBL), with the help of local schools, churches and Wellington Town Council, is staging events that begin with the Poppy Appeal Gala Concert at Wellington School on Friday (October 14). The concert is in the Great Hall at 7.30pm and tickets priced £6 are available on the door or from the RBL Wellington branch PAO Monica Summers on 01823 660454.

Pupils from Rockwell Green Primary School will lay posies of flowers and Remembrance crosses on the war graves at Wellington Cemetery next Tuesday (October 18) at 1.30pm.

Children from the school, with the support of Wellington Town Council, have laid posies of flowers on war graves at the cemetery every month since 2000. The school has become the first in Somerset to form an affiliation with the Royal British Legion and now the town council has added the October visit to its civic diary.

The town Mayor, from this year, will accompany the children, along with other councillors, officers from Wellington RBL, the Royal British Legion Branch Standard and the county chairman, Major Robert Mcdonald. For health and safety reasons, and to keep the ‘school crocodile’ to a minimum, anyone who would like to join the children is asked to meet them at the cemetery entrance.

Remembrance crosses will be laid in a Field of Remembrance at Wellington Baptist Church in South Street on Sunday, November 6, at noon. The crosses will be later taken from there, incinerated and the ashes scattered in the Garden of Remembrance at Wellington Park. The commemoration of the national two-minute silence is on Friday, November 11, at 11am in Wellington

town centre. RBL standards and branch officers, a bugler and officers from Wellington School will join the town Mayor and councillors for a civic march to the town centre at 10.45am.

The Service of Remembrance and wreath-laying ceremony is at Wellington Park on Sunday, November 13, at 3.15pm. The parade for the march to the park assembles from 2.30pm and will leave Wellington School promptly at 2.55pm.

Organisations which lay Remembrance wreaths can collect them from the 1st Wellington Scout Hall, Fore Street, between 9.30am and 12.30pm on Saturday, November 12.

The RBL Wellington branch poppy stand is at the Co-op supermarket from Monday, October 31, to Saturday, November 5.