MALVERN fell silent to honour those who served at several poignant remembrance services.

Remembrance Sunday and Armistice Day services and parades took place in Malvern and Upton-Upon-Severn this week. 

Great Malvern Priory Church held a service at 10am to honour those who served, and later that morning the Great Malvern remembrance parade took place throughout the town. 

Members of the armed forces, West Mercia Police and cadets were part of the parade.

Members of Malvern Town Council and Malvern Hills District Council, including town mayor Cllr Marilyn Birks and chairman Cllr Daniel Walton, also played key roles in the service. 

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After the parade made its way from the Great Malvern Post Office to the Great Malvern Library, a wreath-laying service was held at the nearby war memorial followed by a minute of silence. 

The Mayor of Malvern, Cllr Marilyn Birks, said the Remembrance Sunday parade was a really good way of honouring those who had fought and died for our freedom.

Malvern's armed forces champion, Cllr Natalie McVey, and the town mayor marked Armistice Day by attending Great Malvern Railway Station to present two wreaths for the Great Western Railway Poppies to Paddington train. 

On arrival in London Paddington, the wreath was placed amongst hundreds laid at the station's war memorial on Platform One ahead of a special service of remembrance. 

Great Malvern Priory Church also held a special Armistice Day service, while a field of remembrance has been in place at Malvern Library over the past week. 

Upton gathered for its own Remembrance Day parade, which travelled from New Street to the Parish Church for a poignant service. 

After the service, a wreath-laying ceremony was held at the town's war memorial. 

A short wreath-laying and flag-raising ceremony was held outside the Memorial Hall in Upton to mark Armistice Day.  

Remembrance Sunday is an opportunity to honour the service and sacrifice of those who have fought and died to protect our freedoms.