More than 2,000 people lined the streets of Harrow yesterday to pay their respects to those who have died in combat since 1914.

The Royal British Legion and Harrow Borough Council worked together to organise the borough’s United Act of Remembrance Parade and Service.

A parade of 500 troops marched from St Ann’s Shopping Centre to the war memorial outside Harrow’s Civic Centre in Station Road.

The parade was led by the Glen Trew Pipe Band.

Following the parade a service was held at the war memorial.

Nearly 2,000 people including councillors, veterans and youth group members attended the service.

Four Harrow school children who won a poetry competition read out their poems, there was two minutes silence and the Last Post was played.

Rev. Mark Maloney, Vicar of Holy Trinity Church, Wealdstone, led prayers with the Mayor’s Chaplain Imam Anas Mohamed, Rabbi Kathleen de Magtige-Middleton and Father Frank Waters also delivering readings and prayers. 

Wreaths were laid by the Mayor, Councillor Nizam Ismail, on behalf of the people of Harrow, followed by Harrow’s Deputy Lieutenant, John Purnell, Major Tony Gauci, 131 Commando Squadron, MPs Gareth Thomas and Bob Blackman, London Assembly Member, Navin Shah, and Borough Commander, Dal Babu, OBE. 

The Royal British Legion, Cadets, local organisations and community groups also paid their respects by laying wreaths.

Harrow Apollo Male Choir and the Grimsdyke Brass Band accompanied the hymns and a trumpeter played the Last Post with the Reveille sounding the end of the two minute Act of Commemoration silence.