TOWNS across Herefordshire will celebrate the lives of lost soldiers during their Remembrance Day parades.

Remembrance Sunday is held on the second Sunday of November and commemorates British service members who have died in wars and other military conflicts since the onset of World War I.

Different armed forces and council members will march down their streets in remembrance of the nation’s lives lost at war.

Here are the towns in Herefordshire holding a parade on Sunday, November 13:

Hereford

Hereford's Remembrance Day parade will start at 10.30am at the east end of St Owen Street and parade to St Peter’s Square.

The service will then begin at 11am.

After the service, the parade will march up St Owen's Street, past the Town Hall, and will dismiss at the junction of St Owen Street and Cantilupe Street.

Members of the public are asked to keep a clear path for the parade when marching up St Owen's Street and to stay where they are until the parade finishes.

Leominster

The Leominster remembrance parade will begin in Broad Street at 9.50am and proceed down Church Street to attend the service in The Priory Church.

After the service the congregation will make their way to the Cenotaph in The Grange Open Space to observe the silence at 11am.

The wreaths will be laid before the parade continues past the Pavilion, into Pinsley Road, Church Street and South Street, finishing at the Leominster Sports and Social Club.

Ross-on-Wye

Ross-on-Wye will host a Remembrance Sunday parade and church service.

The parade steps off from Old Maid’s Walk Police Station at 10.30 am – all serving personnel and veterans are invited to form up at the police station by 10.15am.

This will be followed by Act of Commemoration and wreath laying at the war memorial on the Prospect at 10.50am and Ecumenical Remembrance Day Service at St Mary’s at 11.15am.

Refreshments will be served following the Service.

Plans for Remembrance week in Ross:

During the week before this there will be poppy appeal collections throughout the town including a daily poppy stall at Morrisons between October 27 and November 12.

On Thursday, November 10, there will be remembrance events at Chelsea Pensioners Memorial, Korean War Memorial and Falklands Conflict Memorial.

People will gather at the Millennium Gates at 11.40am and afterwards there will be refreshments in St Mary’s Church.

On Friday, November 11, an Armistice Day commemoration will take place at the Market Hall.

People will gather at 10.50am followed by a two-minute silence marked at the Prospect.

Ledbury

Ledbury's remembrance parade and service will take place again this year, with plans the same as last year.

The parade will be held in the High Street from 10.30am followed by a service at St Michael and All Angels church.

At 11am on Armistice Day, Thursday, November 11, the national two-minute silence will take place followed by a short service at the town's war memorial in High Street.

Bromyard

The Remembrance Day Parade in Bromyard will start at 10.15am from the Tenbury Road car park and will travel along High Street, Broad Street and Church Road.

It will end at St. Peter’s Church for a 10.30am church service.

More Remembrance Day ceremonies

On November 3 Hampton Grange and Gwen Walford will hold a remembrance ceremony with a former Rotherwas munitions worker at 12pm.

This will honour fallen military servicemen from across Britain and the Commonwealth. Welcoming families, friends and members of the local community, attendees will gather in the care homes’ grounds to observe a former Rotherwas Munitions worker, 99-year-old Nancy Billings, unveil a Statue of Remembrance.

The event is free to attend, and confirmation of attendance is requested ahead of the event.

The workforce, which Nancy Billings was part of, worked at Rotherwas for five years during the Second World War.

Kington 

The Remembrance Day service in Kington will take place at 10am at St. Mary’s Church.

This will be followed by a parade to the War Memorial, in Kington, with the Act of Remembrance at the War Memorial at 11am.

Hay-on-Wye

Hay-on-Wye will be holding its Remembrance Day parade on Sunday, Novemeber 13, meeting at the town clock at 2pm.

The parade will march off at 2.30pm, passing the cenotaph and arriving for a service at St Mary's Church at around 2.45pm.

During the service the names of all those local residents who perished during the wars will be read out.

Following the service, the parade will arrive at the cenotaph for an Act of Remembrance and the laying of wreaths.