Stalwarts of the Cinderford branch of the Royal British Legion turned out on parade at the War Memorial on Friday to mark the 70th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day.

A genuine WWII air raid siren opened the ceremony from the top of the Triangle clocktower.

The branch president Fred Hones gave the exhortation ending with Gloucestershire poet John Maxwell Edmonds' famous epitaph:

"When you go home tell them of us and say

For your tomorrow we gave our today."

The bugler sounded The Last Post followed by a minute's silence and Reveille before the padre the Rev Mike Barnsley gave his address and conducted prayers.

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