A MEMORIAL wall built to commemorate those who have given their lives for their country since the Second World War will be at the centre of the region’s biggest Remembrance Day parade.

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The wall, next to Sunderland’s War Memorial, in Burdon Road, will be dedicated at 11am tomorrow.

On Sunday, the families of some of the 18 servicemen whose sacrifice is commemorated on the wall will lay wreaths at the site during Sunderland’s Remembrance Parade and Service.

More than 200 serving members of the Armed Forces and 100 members of the emergency services will join veterans for the annual Service of Remembrance, one of the biggest in the country.

The parade will start at 10.30am, and will include representatives of the 4th Regiment Royal Artillery, the 5th Regiment Royal Artillery, The Light Dragoons, 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards, 1st Battalion Scots Guards and 1st Battalion Irish Guards.

Music for the parade will be provided by the Band of the RAF College and the Bear Park and Esh Colliery Band.

Troopers from the Household Cavalry, with their distinctive breast plates and helmets, will provide the honour guard at the War Memorial during the service, while readings will be given by Ted Hold, president of the Sunderland branch of the Parachute Regimental Association, and former prisoner of war Len Gibson.

Recipients of the British Empire Medal, CBE, MBE and OBE are invited to attend.

Co-ordinator Arthur Lockyear, who this year became an MBE in honour of his work on the event, said medal holders should turn up. He said: “They should feel some propinquity to the Queen and that should be demonstrated by getting up on a cold November morning to remember the sacrifices made for the sovereign.”

People should be at Sunderland Civic Centre by 9.45am.

Members of the public should be at Burdon Road War Memorial by 10.15am.