Falmouth’s Armistice Day commemorations will return to the town’s Cross of Sacrifice for the first time in many years this November.
The ceremony will take place at the Cross of Sacrifice in the old Falmouth Cemetery on Pennance Road at 11am on Wednesday, November 11.
A two-minute silence will be observed to remember those who lost their lives in conflict.
The Cross of Sacrifice is dedicated to the fallen of the First World War and is one of only two such crosses in Cornwall located in cemeteries containing more than 50 war dead.
The other is at Glebe Cemetery in Penzance.
Crosses of Sacrifice were designed by architect Reginald Blomfield for the Imperial War Graves Commission and can be found at war cemeteries and burial grounds across Britain and overseas.
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Falmouth Town Council grounds staff have been preparing the old cemetery ahead of the commemorations.
Mayor Alan Jewell and other dignitaries are expected to attend the service and lay wreaths.
Councillor David Saunby, who has been working towards holding the ceremony at the cemetery, said: “I strongly believe that the Cross of Sacrifice is the correct location for the Armistice Day commemorations, which is solely dedicated to the fallen, when the guns stopped firing at the 11th hour, on the 11th day of the 11th month 1918, which Armistice is all about.”
Falmouth’s Remembrance Sunday commemorations will take place as usual at the War Memorial in Kimberley Park on Sunday, November 8.
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