Remembrance Day was commemorated last Sunday with the laying of wreaths at the foot of the war monument in Independence Square, Victoria, and the playing of the Last Post and the Reveille by the Armed Forces of Malta Band.

The major part of the service, commemorating the victims of the two world wars, had to be held indoors, at the Banca Giuratale, due to bad weather. Last Sunday, October 11, also marked 100 years since the end of World War I.

The ceremony, led by Gozo Minister Justyne Caruana, included an introductory message by Paul George Pisani, a message in English by Kate Nelson, a poem, Il-Monument ta’ Kristu Re by the late Frank Mercieca, read by Dr Pisani, reading of an excerpt from the Gospel by Fr Joe Xerri OFM, Conv. and bidding prayers by Dr Pisani, Robert Crowley, Alison Rutland and Tony Wright.

Jill Attewell read a poem in English, entitled Epitaph On My Days in Hospital by Vera Mary Brittain, while Absolution by Siegfried Sassoon was read by Dennis Coleman.