Brighton’s Remembrance Day ceremony at Memorial Park saw members of the community young and old, gather to pay their respects to those who have given so much in service to their country.
Keeley McLoughlin-Landry told us why it was important to her to attend today’s Remembrance Day Ceremony.
Manny, a Vietnam War veteran who was a member of the Philippine military, placed a wreath at the cenotaph in Brighton.
In a village in Normandy there’s a street named Rue Clarke Lawson, after Rifleman Clarke Lawson, from Brighton.
Soldier Lawson served with the Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada and died in battle on D-Day when allied forces came ashore changing the direction of the war. Soldiers fought their way inland including to villages that carry the names of fighting men including Lawson’s. A constant reminder of a trans – Atlantic debt of gratitude that lives on decades after the fighting ended.