In photos: Chesterfield pays tribute to the fallen on Remembrance Sunday 2025

Members of the Armed Forces, ex-services organisations and uniformed organisations marched in the parade which was led by the Mayor and Mayoress of Chesterfield, Cllr Barry Dyke and his wife Marie, together with other dignitaries from Derbyshire.

The Duke of Devonshire, Chesterfield MP Toby Perkins, Derbyshire Police and Crime Commissioner Nicolle Ndiweni-Roberts and Cllr Tricia Gilby, leader of Chesterfield Borough Council, were among those who laid wreaths at the war memorial opposite the Town Hall.

Mr Perkins said: “Was lovely to have the Duke of Devonshire, Lord Lieutenant and High Sheriff of Derbyshire join the Mayor, Mayoress, Council leader and hundreds and hundreds of local folk in the mild November afternoon."

*100-year-old Philip Dawson of Wingerworth was among 20 Second World War veterans in a 10,000-strong parade organised by the Royal British Legion in London. Philip, the oldest member of the Commando Association, was part of the annual march past the Cenotaph.

In an interview recorded at his home and shown on the BBC during the Remembrance Sunday commemoration, Philip told how he was involved in the battle for the Sheldt estuary. Philip said: “The Germans had mounted huge gun emplacements along the seaward side of the island of Walcheren to stop the shipping entering Antwerp harbour. Our job was to dismantle those guns and capture the island. The landing was a bit like a mini D-Day...I jumped into the water about waist-deep, waded ashore and we set the gun up and we started giving covering fire. Within minutes of getting the gun on the wall there we lost a number one on that gun, John Pearson, he was killed straight away; he would have been in his early twenties. It took us about five days to clear all the guns and the village and then the Germans surrendered so we got the island.”