VETERANS and Service personnel will be honoured by the community in a Festival of Remembrance at Weymouth Pavilion.

To mark Remembrance Day on Sunday, November 13, The Royal British Legion has teamed up with the theatre and performers across the town to host a Remembrance festival not to be forgotten.

This year, the festival will take on a youthful feel as schools and young people from across the county take to the stage.

Royal British Legion county chairman Gerry Nunn said: “We have an entertaining programme of music, song and dance designed to honour our serving and ex-serving community. Your support is appreciated and essential to allow our work to continue and enforce the true meaning of remembrance, ‘to the memory of the fallen and the future of the living.’”

The line-up includes performances from Let’s Dance, Bournemouth Youth Marching Band, Wyke Regis Primary School choir and Julie Hornby’s Dance and the vocal quartet The Decadettes.

The Royal British Legion help members of the Royal Navy, British Army, Royal Air Force, veterans and their families all year round by campaigning to improve their lives and honouring the lives of the fallen.

This year’s Poppy Appeal is asking the public to ‘rethink Remembrance’ and recognise the sacrifices made across all generation of the British Armed Forces.

In the run up to the appeal, chairman of the Weymouth branch of the Royal British Legion Naomi Turner has been visiting Scouts and Guide groups across the area as they assemble numerous donation boxes fro the appeal.

Weymouth South Beavers, Scouts and Cubs, along with the Chesil Cub pack made hundreds of boxes to fill with poppies for distribution through the town.

Chairman of the Weymouth branch of the Royal British Legion Naomi Turner said: “Every year the young people of Weymouth are wonderfully thoughtful as they assist with the Poppy Appeal.

“This year they have excelled. I do not know of any other town where the children are so generous and helpful.”

The performance will take place at 6.30pm on Sunday, November 6.