After all services of Remembrance were severely cut back - or in some towns cancelled altogether - due to coronavirus last year, in 2021 there will be a return to a more traditional service.

In Radstock there will be a ceremony and parade in the afternoon of 14 November 2 at 2pm.

The Royal British Legion has just released details of the event, and how to participate.

They have asked personnel to arrive at 13:55 at the Radstock War Memorial and following the two minute silence, there will be a service led by The Revd James Balliston-Thicke followed by wreath laying.

Those expected to be laying wreaths include Radstock Town Council, . Westfield Parish Council, the Royal British Legion, the scouts and the Lions Club of Radstock & Midsomer Norton.

There will also be floral memorials from Radstock Co-Operative Society,

Radstock In Bloom and Radstock Working Men's Club.

Cllr Eleanor Jackson will place a wreath, as will Honorary Alderman Walter Reakes and Mrs. Sylvia Reakes, along with the family of Corporal Gordon Alexander Pritchard. The 31 year old, of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, was the 100th British soldier killed in the Iraq war, losing his life in the southern port of Um Qasr. The vehicle he was travelling in was hit by a roadside bomb on 31 January 2006.

Following his death the Ministry of Defence posted that his commanding officer wrote of him : "He was one of my finest Junior Non-Commissioned Officers. He had in abundance the qualities of intelligence, professionalism, compassion and humour that are required to make it to the very highest levels."

You can read the very moving details of his service career HERE: with his regiment writing that they had lost a fine soldier ....and a good friend.