Remembrance Sunday will be particularly poignant in Colchester as the town's soldiers remember their comrades who have died in action.
Eight members of the town's 16 Air Assault Brigade were killed in 2006, two in Iraq and six in Afghanistan.
Soldiers will join in civic ceremonies on Sunday, as well as gather together for a service at the Garrison Church.
The Band of the Parachute Regiment will lead a march by veterans from the town hall to the war memorial at 10.30am, where Col Phillips and Colonel Neil Hutton, deputy commander of 16 AAB, will join mayor Richard Gower and veterans' organisation in laying wreaths.
Tomorrow maroon rockets will be fired in Castle Park, Colchester, and two minutes' silence will be observed on the town hall steps, at 11am.
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