People are invited to attend a remembrance service at the Crookston war memorial in tribute to the men from Wallyford, Smeaton and Deantown (now Whitecraig) who lost their lives in the First World War.

The annual ceremony at the memorial, which is situated just inside the gates of Inveresk cemetery at St Michael’s Parish Church, takes place on Friday (November 11) at 10.30am.

Alister Hadden, chairman of Wallyford Community Council, said that everyone was welcome to attend the event in tribute to the local soldiers who were killed in the war.

He will read out the names of 59 men on the memorial following words of welcome and a musical tribute by Pipe Major Lee Moore, of Preston Lodge High School Pipe Band.

Pastor Andrew Agnew, of Wallyford Livingroom Church, will recite the war poem In Flanders Fields before wreaths are laid.

Ivor Highley, from Musselburgh, session clerk at St Clement’s Church, will share the words of poet Sir Henry Newbolt and the hymn Abide With Me will be sung.

The Rev Peter Wood, of St Clement’s and St Ninian’s Parish Church, will give a Christian message and the poem For The Fallen will be recited. Simon Lowden will play The Last Post and Musselburgh Sea Cadets will carry out the lowering of the colours.

A two-minute silence will be observed at 11am and Mr Lowden will play Reveille. Jim McLean, a member of Wallyford Community Council, will provide a sound system at the event which assists with the singing, including When The Battle’s Over.

Mr Hadden will read the Kohima Epitaph, which is carved on the Memorial of the 2nd British Division in the cemetery of Kohima in North-East India. The ceremony will end with the national anthem.

The Crookston war memorial is made of red sandstone, standing nearly six feet high with two reversed rifles with a wreath of laurels engraved at the top. In the centre, a panel bears the names and regiments of those who were killed.