Waltham Forest will be awash with poppies this weekend as veterans, residents and dignitaries gather to pay their respects to the borough’s war dead.

Remembrance Day events will take place across the borough with exhibitions, processions, services and wreath setting ceremonies.

On Saturday a service will be held from 11am in the Memorial Park, Chingford Mount Road.

Reverend Lesley Goldsmith will lead a service to remember soldiers who have died ‘or who continue to suffer as a result of war and conflict’.

The Royal British Legion will host a remembrance event in north Chingford on Sunday.

There will be a procession leaving the fire station at 10.15am before a memorial service at St Peters and St Pauls Church.

Later, at around 12.30pm crosses and flowers will be laid on the graves of the soldiers who lost their lives in Chingford Mount Cemetery in Old Church Road.

Also on Sunday a parade will march from the William Morris Gallery in Lloyd Park to the town hall at 10.20am.

There will be a wreath setting ceremony which will be attended by councillors, veterans and residents.

In Leyton a service will be held in Coronation Gardens from 9.30am.

There will also be a wreath setting ceremony at the Leytonstone Harrow Green Memorial from 10.30am.

On November 11 an exhibition called ‘Empire Needs Men’ will be on show at Walthamstow Library.

There will be a short service to mark the Remembrance Day, while stories of soldiers in the First World War are told.