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Video: City falls silent to remember our war dead
WAR veterans wiped away tears as they joined hundreds of people in the city centre to remember those who died fighting for their country.
WAR veterans wiped away tears as they joined hundreds of people in the city centre to remember those who died fighting for their country.About 1,500 people packed into the city cathedral for an emotional service to honour those who lost their lives in active military service.
Many war veterans chose to proudly wear their medals to remember their friends who died during war time.
A civic parade left the Car Haven car park behind the town hall, and headed to the cathedral, where wreaths were laid at the city's war memorial.
See more photos (you can also order prints) from the parade and service at peterboroughtoday.co.uk/photos
Peterborough mayor Cllr Marion Todd, on her first official engagement since the death of her husband, Patrick, was present at the Remembrance Day service.
The event has added poignancy as this November 11 fell on a Sunday, and the city fell silent at 11am to represent the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918 when the guns of Europe fell silent.
Leader of Peterborough City Council Cllr John Peach, who was at the service, said: "It was good to see so many residents attending the service of remembrance to pay their respects to those who have died."
Susan Gent, of Malborne Way, Orton Malborne, Peterborough, observed the two minutes' silence while out shopping in Queensgate.
She said: "We all have to go about our daily lives, but it is important that we take time out to remember those who sacrificed their lives for us. I was impressed to see so many people, including children, observe the silence."
The service followed a procession through the city's streets, led by representatives of the army, the Royal British Legion, veteran organisations and city youth organisations.
A book of remembrance commemorating more than 1,000 Peterborough men who died in the First World War, was also formally presented at Peterborough Cathedral during the Sunday service.
The book has been especially commissioned because in the immediate aftermath of the war Peterborough residents raised 89,000 to build a Memorial Hospital, which now acts as a geriatric wing to Peterborough District Hospital.
Services also took place in Whittlesey, Yaxley, Oundle, Wisbech, and other towns across the Greater Peterborough area.
In Yaxley, residents lined the streets close the Royal British Legion headquarters in Broadway, to watch the parade pass through the town towards the war memorial.
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