OLD soldiers will be turning out to remember fallen comrades at Remembrance services across the borough this Sunday (November 9).

Lye residents will be able to pay their respects to those who have fought and died in conflict during a Remembrance Sunday service at Christ Church, High Street, at 10am.

Bethel Chapel in Hill Street, Wollescote, will also honour war heroes during two services at 10.30am and 6pm, with prayers, readings and hymns.

In Stourbridge, Royal British Legion members will muster outside the Council House in Mary Stevens Park at 10.30am before marching down Queen’s Drive to the cenotaph for a service of Remembrance, two-minute silence and wreath-laying ceremony.

An additional wreath-laying ceremony will later be held by Stourbridge Army Cadets at 12.30pm at Stourbridge Crematorium as part of anniversary commemorations marking 100 years since the outbreak of World War One.

Wordsley war veterans will attend a service of Remembrance at 9.45am at Holy Trinity Church which will be followed by a wreath-laying ceremony at the cenotaph outside the High Street church at 10.50am.

Brierley Hill's old soldiers will gather in Bell Street South at 10.30am and will parade at around 10.45am to the war memorial for a short service at 11am.

In Quarry Bank, Christ Church will host a service of Remembrance at 10.30am after which Quarry Bank Royal British Legion members will parade along Park Road to Stevens Park where a service will be held at the war memorial at around 11.45am.

Park Road will be closed to traffic from around 11.15am to 11.45am for the parade.

In Kingswinford - legion members, scouts, guides, brownies, air cadets and army cadets will muster at 10am at Kingswinford RBL HQ in Summer Hill ahead of a 10.30am march, led by the Wolverhampton Pipe Band, along the High Street to St Mary's Church, where wreaths will be laid at the cenotaph and a two-minute silence will be held at 11am before a service takes place in the church.

Fred Gorman, Kingswinford RBL's honorary branch secretary, said: "We're one of the biggest parades in the area. We have around 400 to 500 people each year."

Kingswinford High Street will be closed to traffic for the parade - thanks to partnership working by Dudley Council, volunteers and West Midlands Police.

Meanwhile members of Clent, Belbroughton and Fairfield Royal British Legion will hold their annual Remembrance Service in Clent.

Veterans will assemble at 10am at Clent Parish Hall and at 10.30am they will march along Church Avenue to St Leonard’s Church where a service of Remembrance will be held.

Members of Kinver and Enville Royal British Legion will gather outside St Peters Church, Kinver, this Sunday at 10.15am ahead of a service at 10.45am.

Afterwards there will be a short dedication outside the church before a march through the village to the war memorial where there will be a short ceremony of prayers and wreath-laying. Refreshments will be available afterwards at Kinver Constitutional Club in High Street.

Hagley and Blakedown RBL will hold its annual Remembrance Service in Hagley this year.

Members of the public are invited to join old soldiers at 10am at the war memorial in Park Road where there will be a wreath-laying ceremony and a minute’s silence.

Veterans and legion members will then join village scouts, guides, cubs and brownies at The Lyttelton arms car park for a march to St John’s Church at Hagley Hall where a service will be held at 10.30am.