Gallery: On Remembrance Day a salute to all who served

More than 300 people attended the joint service, which was hosted by Miranda RSL Sub-branch.

They included veterans and their families, politicians and students from local schools who assembled in the sunshine at the memorial at its new site in Seymour Shaw Park.

Remembrance Sunday is held on the second Sunday in November, the Sunday closest to Remembrance Day, November 11, which remembers those service personnel who died in World War I.

People pause to observe a minute’s silence at 11am on November 11, the time and day when Western Front hostilities ceased in 1918.

Miranda RSL Sub-branch president Bruce Grimley said it was appropriate that the day of remembrance involved both young people and  World War II veterans.

Guests at the service included  Immigration Minister Scott Morrison, Hughes MP Craig Kelly, Miranda MP Barry Collier, Cronulla MP Mark Speakman and Sutherland Shire mayor Kent Johns.

Students from Port Hacking High, Yowie Bay Public and Kareela Public attended.

The Prayer for the Fallen was read  by Miranda RSL youth club representative Emily Cox.

The Earlwood Bardwell Park Sub-branch also held a service at its recently refurbished memorial garden opposite the club, preceded by a march past of veterans, RSL sub-branch members and family representatives, Air Force Cadets, school students, Scouts and local sporting and community groups.

The names of 20 Earlwood Bardwell Park members who died in 2013 were read out.

There are now 1022 names engraved on plaques on the sub-branch’s memorial wall.

‘‘These men and women were members of the sub-branch and in many instances their lives were shortened or suffered illnesses and disabilities because of war or military service,’’ sub-branch president Alan Bell said.

The new plaques were dedicated by Major Andrew Schofield (Salvation Army chaplain) who led the service.

How will you mark Remembrance Day?