MORE than 2,500turned out to honour the dead from two world wars and other conflicts at the remembrance day service at the war memorial on Sunday.
British Legion organiser Goff Griffiths said it was one of the biggest turn outs in years.
Before the service began many sang along with Barnsley Metropolitan band which played a medley of favourites from the war.
Then the town hall clock struck 11, the exhortation was given ending with the words ‘at the going down of the sun, and in the morning, we will remember them’. The band’s Pete Cotton then heralded two minutes' silence by playing The Last Post.
Music continued for the laying of the wreaths. The first was laid by the Lord Lieutenant of Yorkshire, David Moody. Also in attendance were Lord and Lady Mason, all three Barnsley MPs and civic leaders. Father Rodney Marshall, Mayor’s Chaplain, conducted the service. He spoke about the service men and women who die in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as those who fell in the two world wars.
Following the National Anthem, a parade including veterans, cadets, serving personnel, Territorial Army, St John Ambulance and members of the scout movement marched around the town hall to the sound of the band.
