The Royal British Legion, Newham Catholic Deanery Schools, Newham Schools, Newham Council representatives and local residents gathered at the Cenotaph in Central Park, East Ham, to pay their respects to those who perished in the wars.

Local historian Lee Skeggs spoke about some of the names on the remembrance memorial. There was also a tribute to Walter Tull, the first Black British army officer who was killed during The Great War, in March 1918.

World War I ended on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day, of the eleventh month in 1918.

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