Remembrance services will be taking place across the district on November 12.
Remembrance Sunday in Largs starts with the Act of Remembrance at the War Monument at 10.50am, followed by a church service at the newly named Largs Community Church, formerly Clark Memorial Church, starting at 11.15am.
The Act of Remembrance sees emergency services including police, fire and rescue, coastguard and RNLI laying wreathes, as well as local dignitaries including Parliamentary representatives, community council, community groups, Rangers Supporters Club, and others.
This will be the first Remembrance service in Largs since the coming together of all the Church of Scotland congregations in the town since the closure of St John's and St Columba's Parish for Sunday services.
A Largs BB Remembrance Parade will also be taking place earlier in the morning which traditionally starts in Crawford Street and marches down Main Street, and along Bath Street, towards the War Memorial, with further details to follow. It musters at 10.20am.
In Fairlie Parish Church, worship will begin at 10am followed by an Act of Remembrance at the monument beginning at 10.50am.
Worship on Cumbrae sees the Act of Remembrance taking place at the island's War Monument, and begins at 10.45am, with the island's Royal British Legion heavily involved in the early morning procession.
Worship in Cumbrae Parish Church will follow at 11.30am.
The service at Skelmorlie and Wemyss Bay Parish Church is at the earlier time of 10.45am and noon at the War Memorial.
Timings are the same at Inverkip Parish Church and War Memorial.
West Kilbride Parish Church has designated the month of November as a ‘Month of Remembrance’ in the church. Plans include communion on November 5 and the Remembrance Sunday service on November 12 at 10.50am.
Meanwhile, members of Largs Community Garden have installed a large poppy decoration in their grounds and Douglas Park has a cascade of poppies to remember the fallen.
North Ayrshire Provost Anthea Dickson has called on people to pay their respects to the fallen on Remembrance Sunday.
Hundreds of people are expected to turn out at services across North Ayrshire and Provost Dickson said: “These services are a chance for our communities to come together and recognise sacrifices that have been made by those brave men and women in our Armed Forces, past and present.”
The origins of the poppy reminds us of the Fallen and the importance of remembrance. Poppies grew best on broken ground, as any First World War soldier could have told you, and they flourished in Flanders.
Their status was transformed by a Canadian surgeon, Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, who sat down during a lull in the 1915 Battle of Ypres and wrote a poem that had lasting legacy It begins with the haunting: “In Flanders fields the poppies blow, Between the crosses, row on row.”
From that moment on remembrance had an icon.
The little red bloom is today still hand-assembled in several countries around the globe, taking on local variations wherever it surfaces.
Although it has its roots in Flanders, the poppy has become far, far bigger than that. It had and will always have an emotional link with the First World War but became quickly associated with the Second World War and the many conflicts that our servicemen have fought since 1945.
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