Services of Remembrance to honour nation’s war dead

An annual Service of Remembrance will be held in Battersea Park at 11am on Monday November 11, commencing at 10.45am.

In attendance will be the Mayor of Wandsworth Sana Jafri and Leader of the Council Simon Hogg as well as representatives of service organisations, other local dignitaries and private mourners.

This ceremony will be at the park's war memorial, which is dedicated to the service of the 24th (London) Division during the First World War.

The Portland stone memorial is located at the junction of Central Avenue and East Carriage Drive and was created by renowned war artist and sculptor Eric Kennington, who served as a private in the Division’s 13th London Regiment in Flanders and in France before being wounded and sent home in June 1915.

And to mark Remembrance Sunday, services will be held in Battersea, Putney and Tooting.

Councillor Jafri will be attending the annual Service of Remembrance at St Mary’s Church in Battersea Church Road while Deputy Mayor Finna Ayres will attend St Mary’s Church in Putney High Street.

The Wandsworth Youth Mayor, Millie Quinn, will attend a Service of Remembrance at 10.45am St Nicholas Church, Church Lane, Tooting.

Ahead of the services, local dignitaries and ex-servicemen and women will lay wreaths at their respective war memorials and a two minute silence will be observed at 11am in memory of the fallen.