Men and women who have given their lives in the service of their country will be honoured in Battersea.

An Armistice Day service will be held in Battersea Park on Wednesday, November 11 to mark the 91st anniversary of the moment the guns fell silent at the end of hostilities in the First World War.

The annual service willcommence at 10.45am and there will be a two minutes' silence at 11am to mark the time on November 11, 1918, that a ceasefire came into effect after four years of bitter fighting.

Attending the Battersea Park ceremony will be the Mayor as well as representatives of service organisations, other local dignitaries and private mourners, who will all lay wreaths. A bugler from the London Regiment will sound Last Post and Reveille and a piper from the regiment will play a Lament as the wreaths are laid.

This service will be at the park's War Memorial, located at the junction of Central Avenue and East Carriage Drive Based on information supplied by Rhian Hughes.