MORE than 1,000 soldiers and officers of the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers marched through Lyneham en-route to a remembrance service.
Their path took the troops from 8 Training Battalion REME past Lyneham Library, where Col Ed Heal OBE saluted, and into the grounds of the REME Museum, which is next to the MOD base.
The march and parade was led by Lieutenant Colonel Matt Horn, the commanding officer of the training battalion, which is the largest in the British Army.
The soldiers, REME officers, and Royal Marines from MOD Lyneham were preceded by one of the army’s giant battlefield recovery vehicles.
A drum-head service was held by the museum to mark the centenary of the First World War Armistice.
Hundreds of civilians joined the outdoor service, which included a song by a choir of Fijian soldiers and laments from a bagpiper.
After a bugler played the Last Post, quiet descended on the service for the two-minute silence.
Colonel Heal, James Gray, military officers and local dignitaries laid poppy wreathes at the drum-head altar.
REME soldiers and officers also took part in Remembrance Day parades in Calne and Royal Wootton Bassett on Sunday.
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