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Dover district stood still to remember the war dead with ceremonies on Remembrance Sunday, yesterday.
At Dover town a parade of standards, veterans and other organisations assembled outside the B&M store in Biggin Street.
They the marched to the War Memorial in front of the town council offices at Maison Dieu House.
There, two minutes' silence as always was observed at 11.00am, the exact time the guns fell silent at the end of the First World War on November 11, 1918.
The service was conducted by the Rev Catherine Tucker the laying of wreaths followed including from town mayor Gordon Cowan and Dover MP Natalie Elphicke.
The event was organised by Dover Town Council and the parade then marched to Market Square.
Sunday's service at Deal was at the War Memorial at the Victoria Hospital, in London Road and was attended by about 400 people.
About 200 people attended Sunday's Sandwich gathering at the town War Memorial in Market Street.
Col Peter Bishop, one of the Deputy Lieutenants of Kent, was the first to lay a wreath, as the Queen's representative.
The Act of Remembrance was led by the Mayor’s Chaplain, the Rev Canon Mark Roberts.
On Armistice Day on Thursday, the exact 103rd anniversary of the end of the First World War, the Dover White Cliffs branch of the Royal British Legion organised a ceremony, again at the town War Memorial.
About 60 people attended and those laying wreaths included pupils from Dover Christ Church Academy in Whitfield.
Thursday's service at Deal was attended by 200 people and was at the War Graves Memorial in Hamilton Road Cemetery.
Those laying wreaths included children from the town's Sandown and Downs primary schools and the Tiny Turtles and Bright Sparks playgroups.
Both Deal events, on Thursday and Sunday, were organised by the town's Downs branch of the Royal British Legion and were for both Deal and Walmer.
The Armidtice Day service for Sandwich was again at Market Street and those attending included town mayor and mayoress Paul and Sue Graeme.
Menwhile, last Tuesday, there was a separate ceremony to commemorate war heroes.
This was at the bringing of the British Torch of Remembrance by student's from the Duke of York's Roual Military School in Dover.
It was at the Battle of Britain Memorial at Capel-le-Ferne.
