With its strong military connections over centuries, the Medway Towns will lead Kent's Remembrance Sunday commemorations this weekend.

Children will join veterans of the Second World War and later conflicts in a series of parades and services .

The main remembrance services is at Rochester Cathedral, starting at 10.40am. The Royal British Legion service will include a procession from the Guildhall and a wreath-laying at the memorial in the High Street.

The first service of the day will be at 9am at the Great Lines naval memorial, followed by one at the Black Lion war memorial, Gillingham, at 9.55am and one at the Brompton memorial at 11am.

The remembrance service at St Margaret’s Church in Rainham High Street starts at 10.15am while Scouts, Cubs, Guides and Brownies are among those expected to parade to Victoria Gardens, Chatham, for a service at 10.45am.

They come after poignant remembrance services were held across Medway on Armistice Day in tribute to our servicemen and women who died serving their country.

Chatham’s Historic Dockyard welcomed visitors to commemorate Remembrance Sunday and Armistice Day at its National Destroyer Memorial.

A two-minute silence was observed at 11am at a service led by the Rev Andrew
Huckett, chaplain of HMS Cavalier. Admiral Sir Trevor Soar, chairman of the Historic Dockyard Trust, laid a wreath dedicated to 142 Royal Navy destroyers sunk in the Second World War with the loss of 11,000 lives.

Children from St John’s School in Chatham made their annual pilgrimage to the war memorial at Victoria Garden this morning. Later, at 10.45am, mayor Cllr Stuart Tranter laid a wreath joined by veterans.