People across the Island paid tribute to Britain’s war dead this morning at a number of services.

On Friday at 11am, around 60 people gathered around the Sheerness clocktower for a short service led by town centre chaplain Jeanette McLaren and the Royal British Legion’s branch chairman, Ian Goodwin.

The girls’ brigade’s Emily Collins, 16, sounded the Last Post and RAF veteran Ernie Hope, 86, thanked the assembled crowd who observed the two-minute silence.

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More than 50 people also gathered at Halfway Cemetery on Friday at 11am on the 11th day of the 11th month to mark the lives of servicemen and women lost during two world wars and other conflicts.

The service was conducted by Father Colin Johnson, padre of the Royal British Legion’s Sheppey branch.

Mike Sanger, 83, a former chief petty officer with the Fleet Air Arm and treasurer of the Sheppey branch, read the Exhortation.

He said: “These services are becoming more popular because, regrettably, there are still conflicts going on.

“It is no longer just historical. There are service personnel still coming back from wars horribly injured and traumatised.”

The Last Post and Reveille were provided by Staff Sgt Julie Austin-Williamson’s iPhone which was perched on a gravestone.

After the service Cllr Ken Ingleton, representing the mayor of Swale Cllr Lesley Ingham, and Cllr Mick Constable, mayor of Queenborough, planted poppy crosses at the graves of the war dead.

Among them was one for Stoker Alexander Bull who died on September 30, 1915, aged 34.

Wreathes were laid around the cemetery’s war memorial.

Also present were Cllrs Adrian Crowther, Cameron Beart and RAF veteran Tim O’Connor, 88.