A WEYMOUTH veteran met Prince Harry at a poppy planting Remembrance Day event.

Today to mark Armistice Day and millions will fall silent at 11am for the national two-minute silence.

There will be a wreath laying ceremony at County Hall in Dorchester this morning and there will be a Remembrance Service at the war memorial on the Esplanade at 10.55am, organised by the Royal British Legion.

Former RAF armourer Ron Meades, 94, travels to London every year for the Remembrance Day events, including the annual poppy planting at Westminster Abbey.

It was there that he met Prince Harry, and the pair had a chat. Mr Meades then asked if he could take a photo of the prince, but HRH replied that they could have a photo together.

The pair talked about the VJ Day commemoration in the summer which they both had attended. Mr Meades joked and said he would caption the picture the 'Two Welshmen' as The Prince’s surname is Wales and Mr Meades is from Cardiff originally.

The Burma Star veteran said: “He’s a real charmer. He really is. I met him last year. This time we had a little chat.”

Mr Meades said that Prince Philip was also at the event and he had a chat with HRH each year as well.

Remembrance Day events had been getting more popular again since the 90s, Mr Meades said: “People realise there are people still about that did a wonderful job - we didn’t know we were doing a wonderful job, we were only young.

“Most of us weren’t married - we had no commitments, we just did what we were told.”

He added: “People realise what a lot of us went through, and went through it so cheerfully because we were with our mates.”

Enlisting in the RAF in January 1941, Mr Meades' role as armourer included flying at certain times over India and Burma.

A semi-professional footballer before the war in Cardiff, Mr Meades ended up on a football tour of India helping to entertain the troops. He said: “It wasn’t very long because we were wanted for more important things.”

Returning home after his six years in the RAF, Mr Meades said it was the ‘wrong time’ in his life to take up football again, so he became a coach.

Over his 40 year coaching career he coached for FIFA and the FA and travelled all over the world, working in Europe, India and Africa.

He worked for 20 years in Norway and speaks fluent Norwegian.

He has five children with his late wife Catherine. The pair were married for 54 years before she sadly passed away in 2003. Three of his children live in Weymouth, one is in London and one lives in France.