An annual service will be held at 11am on Armistice Day Thursday November 11 at the war memorial in Battersea Park.

(Armistice comes from the Latin to stand (still) arms.)

It will commence at 10:45am and there will be a two minutes' silence at 11am to mark the precise time on November 11, 1918 that a ceasefire came into effect after four years of ruthless fighting.

The Mayor of Wandsworth Cllr Richard Field, will be in attendance at the memorial service, joined by council leader Ravi Govindia.

Representatives of service organisations, other local dignitaries and private mourners who will lay wreaths will also be in attendance.

The war memorial was created by Eric Kennington and is dedicated to the service of the 24th (London) Division during the First World War.

It is the 103rd anniversary of the moment the guns fell silent at the end of hostilities in the First World War.

876,084 British soldiers died at war from 1914-1918 and the day remembers all those who gave their lives in service to their country.

The sculptor served as a private in the Division's 13th London Regiment in Flanders and in France.

Kennington was wounded in battle and sent home in June 1915.

The statue is located at the junction of Central Avenue and East Carriage Drive.

The memorial is made from Portland stone and depicts three helmeted soldiers with a serpent of war entwined through their legs and feet, commemorating the division's 10,865 losses.

Trooper Morris Clifford Thomas of the Machine Gun Corps is depicted by the left figure, the central one is Sergeant j Woods of the 9th Royal Sussex and the third is based on the war poet and writer Robert Graves who served as Captain with the 2nd Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers.

The borough's Mayor and Deputy Mayor will be attending services on Sunday, November 14. One will be at St Mary's Church in Battersea Church Road.

Ahead of the church service, local dignitaries and ex-servicemen and women will lay wreaths at their respective war memorials and a two minute silence will be observed at 11am in memory of the fallen.

Following the laying of wreaths, there will be a parade through Battersea involving veterans and representatives from the Royal British Legion, Burma Star Association, Royal Naval Association, army, air force and sea cadets and the Scout Movement, as well as current servicemen and women.

A Battersea parade will begin at St Mary's Church just after 11am and finish in Battersea High Street.

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