We will remember them, despite the fact that we can’t get together to honour them.

Covid-19 has put the kibosh on Remembrance Sunday gatherings across the country but The Royal British Legion has asked people to still commemorate the contribution of veterans and those who died in the two World Wars and later conflicts by putting a poster of a poppy in their front windows at home.

You can download and print an A4-sized Remembrance Poppy poster (or a colouring in version for the kids) at www.britishlegion.org.uk/get-involved/poppy-appeal

Churches, such as St Mary’s Church, Long Ditton, will be live-streaming their Remembrance Sunday service tomorrow (November 8) instead on their Facebook pages. You do not need a Facebook account to view St Mary’s service, and you can watch it live or later using the link www.facebook.com/stmaryslongditton/live

There will be music from 10.50am with the actual service starting shortly after 10.55am.

“Children at our local schools have been encouraged to visit the war memorial [at the Church Road/Ditton Hill junction] before Remembrance Sunday and pick out one of the engraved names, with the suggestion that they put this name in their front home window with a hand-drawn poppy – just as many families did with rainbows this year – with the line ‘We will remember them’ from Laurence Binyon’s famous poem,” said church rector Kuhan Satkunanayagam.

Invited representatives will be laying wreaths at the memorial at 11am on Wednesday (Armistice Day itself).