Covid-19 restrictions have meant that the traditional Remembrance Day services, when the local military and service organisations meet together to honour the war dead at a parade and church service, have been cancelled this year.

The  members of the Rotary Club of Rayleigh Mill, however, were anxious to continue to pay tribute to those who gave their lives during service for this country and so, on Tuesday 3^rd November, President Geoff Kittle and a party of  members attended a brief, poignant  if lonely, wreath laying ceremony at the Rayleigh War Memorial on London Hill to continue to honour the war dead.