Southend will be paying homage to servicemen and women at a parade at the Cenotaph in Clifftown Parade on Sunday.

The two-minute silence will be held at 11am and the Remembrance Day Service then begins with the sounding of the Last Post and the exhortation - delivered by Keith Fletcher, chairman of the Leigh branch of the Royal British Legion.

Canvey’s Remembrance Day commemorations will also take place on Sunday, in the car park at the Paddocks Community Centre, in Long Road, from 10.20am.

In Rayleigh, a Remembrance Parade and wreath laying will start at Websters Way car park at 9.30am, then the salute will be taken in the High Street, with a service at 10.15am in Holy Trinity Church.

In Basildon, the annual Remembrance Sunday service will take place in Town Square following a parade through the town centre.

It will finish outside St Martin’s Church ahead of a service.

Southend mayor Fay Evans said: “The Remembrance Sunday Service is humbling and extremely important.

“It is when we gather to publicly honour and pay tribute to all those brave men and women who gave their lives in the World Wars and other conflicts since.

“We will show our continuing gratitude to every single one of those men and women for making the supreme sacrifice in the service of others.We hope many will join us for the commemoration ceremony so we can collectively salute the heroism of those who gave everything.”