A DENTON couple added a personal touch as Denton remembered its fallen soldiers with their own tribute.
Dozens of people, including many primary school and nursery pupils, gathered at Victoria Park on Friday, November 11.
And as well as group memorials, Colin and Joyce Pollard added their own to remember his brother, Harold.
Then aged 18, he made the ultimate sacrifice for his country when he was serving with the 6th battalion of the Royal Scots Fusiliers on March 26, 1945.
Harold lies alongside nine comrades at the Reichswald Forest War Cemetery in Germany, which the couple has visited many times always to lay a wreath on his grave and a wooden cross of each of his comrades.
In that cemetery alone, there are documented 7,579 Commonwealth servicemen of the Second World War.
Joyce said: “It was lovely that so many school and nursery children visited the memorial. We attend every year to lay a wreath in remembrance of Harold.
“We also decorate our double garage door with poppy prints, the Kohima Epitaph, a photo of Harold’s grave and a photo of part of the Reichswald Cemetery.
“This is for all to see, including children on their way to school.”
Colin and Joyce will be paying their respects again tomorrow on Remembrance Sunday (November 13), laying a wreath at the War Graves Commission stone in Christ Church’s grounds, on Windmill Lane.
That will remember the soldiers buried at Christ Church, along with Lance Corporal Andrew Breeze, a member of the church who was a casualty of the more recent Afghanistan War in 2010.