HAWARDEN and Broughton and Bretton community councils are jointly preparing for the annual remembrance parade.

The parade, in partnership with the Royal British Legion, local churches, cadets, scouts and brownies organisations together with local schools and clubs, starts at 10.35am on Sunday, November 11, from Gladstone playing fields in Hawarden.

The parade will finish at the cenotaph in the centre of the village, where a minutes silence will follow the ‘Last Post’ trumpet call. The route will be marked by poppies along the street columns.

The service this year will be enhanced by a specialist microphone system in recognition of the number of attendees that increases year on year.

As part of the Hawarden War Memorial Restoration project an additional nine names will been added to the memorial in recognition of those fallen at the Great War.

Following work from local historians, these are the names of those from Hawarden who have been, to this point, missing from the village’s cenotaph.

Tributes will be read out by pupils of Hawarden High School.

During the year the community councils purchased three Silent Soldiers as part of the Royal British Legion campaign to mark the centenary year of the ending of the First World War; these soldiers have been placed at the War Memorial in Hawarden, St Mary’s Church in Broughton and at the entrance to Bretton near the Water Pump.

Hawarden Community Council has also recently received Listed Building consent for restoration and improvement works to the Hawarden War memorial. This will involve cleaning up the memorial to enhance its natural elements and ensure names are more clearly read.

The community councils will also be lighting beacons to mark Remembrance Sunday.

Hawarden and Broughton and Bretton’s Community Councils will be taking part in the ‘Battle’s Over: A Nation’s Tribute’ on November 11 which marks 100 years of remembrance.

This is a national tribute and at 6.55pm, the Last Post will be played locally and across the country.

At 7pm beacons will be lit at Gladstone playing fields in Hawarden and across the nation and at 7.05, the Church Bells at St Deiniol’s and St Mary’s Church will ring out along with other churches across the nation.

Following the formal ceremony where the Lord Lieutenant of Clwyd, Harry Fetherstonhaugh will be in attendance along with Lord Barry and Lady Janet Jones, the chairs of the respective community councils and local dignitaries and representatives from the Royal British Legion, cadets and schools, the local scouts will be providing refreshments at the scout hut at Gladstone playing fields which is now also used as the Community Council’s Chamber.

In the hut, there will be exhibitions by Hawarden Records Office, showcasing all the items that have been deposited following the World War One appeal back in 2014 as part of an event exploring local archives run by the National Archives, and there will also exhibition on a local Hawarden family, the Tucks, on their experiences during the First World War.

There will be exhibitions from Hawarden High School and four local primary schools of the projects they have been working on to mark the centenary year of the ending of World War One.