Service remembers the fallen

CADETS and veterans joined forces for a memorial service to honour fallen soldiers.

Members of the Royal Artillery Association and the Inkerman Battery, Army cadets from Plymouth and Torpoint, standard bearers and a bugler paraded through Ford Park Cemetery.

They marched to the grave of Plymouth war hero Captain Andrew Henry VC, who is buried in the Mutley graveyard.

A reading was given and wreaths were laid before a bugler played.

The party then moved on to the cemetery's war memorial, where another service was conducted.

Captain Andrew Henry VC, of the Royal Regiment of Artillery, won the Victoria Cross for gallantry in November 1854.

At the Battle of Inkerman in the Crimea, he successfully defended his gun from capture against heavy odds.

The annual event, this year held on Saturday, a week before most Remembrance events, has been held for the past 30 years.