EAST Londoners braved yesterday's cold weather to pay tribute to the City's soldiers who fell during a number of campaigns, including World War 1 and 2.

Every year, on the Sunday closest to Armistice Day, November 11, people around the world take time to reflect on those lost in various struggles across the globe. Armistice Day commemorates the end of World War 1.

In South Africa remembrance services now include those who fought against apartheid - the members of the armed wings of the various liberation movements.

This year Remembrance Sunday saw a wide range of people coming together to lay wreaths at the East London War Memorial in upper Oxford Street.

Acting Mayor, John Badenhorst, representing Buffalo City, was the first to lay a wreath at the foot of the memorial.

With the East London Caledonian Pipe Band and the Selborne College Brass Band playing soft music in the background, Badenhorst was followed by representatives from a number of organisations - including the SS Port Rex, the Buffalo City Rifle Volunteers Association, the South African Legion 1st Brigade in World War I, the British Consul, and the US armed forces.

A former soldier from the African National Congress' military arm, Umkhonto weSizwe (MK), placed a wreath in honour of fallen heroes from both MK and the Azanian People's Liberation Army, the military wing of the Pan Africanist Congress.