A SINGLE poppy wreath will be laid on Saturday in honour of five brave Bury men, including two Lancashire Fusiliers, who were killed in the First World War.

A short service of remembrance will take place at 11am at the memorial garden in the grounds of Tesco supermarket at Woodfields retail park in Bury.

A marble memorial is sited in the garden, featuring two plaques in honour of people buried on the former Brunswick Methodist Chapel cemetery, including five soldiers who died in the Great War. They are: Private Ernest Fletcher of the 5th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers; Corporal Christopher Wilkinson of the 2nd/5th Bn Lancashire Fusiliers; Lance Corporal Charles Parr of the 13th Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment; Sapper Walter Strong from the Royal Engineers; and Private Charles Wilkinson from the 3rd Battalion Worcestershire Regiment.

The ceremony will take place at the same time as the country holds a two minute silence - at the 11th hour, of the 11th day, of the 11th month - to commemorate the men and women who gave their lives in pursuit of freedom during the two world wars and in more recent conflicts, including Afghanistan and Iraq. On Remembrance Day Sunday, a host of parades and church services will take place with poppy wreaths laid at memorials around the borough. The main parade takes place in Bury town centre, when the local ex-servicemen and women's associations will head a column of Territorial Army soldiers, military cadets groups and civic leaders and community organisations. The parade will leave Bury Town Hall at 10.30am and proceed along Knowsley Street, Haymarket Street and Market Street, arriving at Bury Parish Church where a two-minute silence will be observed and wreaths laid at the war memorial. The service will be followed at 12.15pm by a march past. Remembrance services and parades will also take place in Ramsbottom, Tottington, Walshaw, Radcliffe, Unsworth, Whitefield and Prestwich. Traffic delays are expected and motorists are asked to switch off their engines during the silent tributes: RAMSBOTTOM: Veterans groups, civic leaders and local youth organisations will fall in on parade outside the British Legion in Central Street at 10.30am and march to St Paul's CE Church via Bolton Street and Bridge Street. A wreath- laying and two minutes' silence will be followed by a church service.

TOTTINGTON: The parade musters at Harwood Road car park at 2.30pm and moves off at 2.40pm through the village, assembling at the war memorial in Market Street for an outdoor service starting at 3pm. Refreshments will be served at 3.30pm in the village hall.

WALSHAW: Following a short service in Christ Church at 10.30am, the procession will make its way to the war memorial where prayers and the names of the fallen will be read out, wreaths laid, and silence observed.

RADCLIFFE: The parade will assemble in the car park of the Last Orders pub, in Water Street, from 10.15am, and march towards the town centre shortly before 11am. At the war memorial, the Last Post will be played and a two-minute silence observed before poppy wreaths are placed at the memorial. The parade will continue to St Thomas and St John Church, in Blackburn Street, where a service of remembrance will be held.

UNSWORTH: The church service at St George's at 9.45am will be followed at 11am by a remembrance service at the cenotaph at Unsworth Pole WHITEFIELD: The service will take place at All Saints Church in Church Lane at 10.45am followed by a procession to the war memorial for a wreath-laying ceremony.

PRESTWICH: St Hilda's Church in Whittaker Lane will host a remembrance service at 9.30am. At 10.40am the parade will leave the Royal British Legion in Bury Old Road and make its way to the cenotaph in Rectory Lane for the 11am service and wreath laying.