TOWNSFOLK in Wellington will mark Armistice Day with a two-minute silence in the town centre on Saturday, November 11, at 11am – the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh month.

Mayor Cllr Gary James, together with the president of the Royal British Legion Wellington branch, will lead town councillors, officers, representatives of the RBL and Wellington School Combined Cadet Force in procession from the town council offices to the centre of town shortly beforehand.

The Last Post will be played on the bugle to mark the beginning of the two-minute silence at 11am following which the Two Minute Silence Reveille will be played.

The town council and the RBL would like to thank Wellington School CCF for providing the buglers and standard bearers.

The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month marks the signing of the Armistice on the November 11 1918 signalling the end of the First World War.