A UNIQUE Remembrance Day service took place in the village of Appleton Thorn when wreaths were laid at a newly renovated War Memorial close to the Church of St Cross.
Among those attending the service was a Dutch officer who visits the village every year in memory of Dutch naval officers killed while serving at the wartime Royal Naval Air Station, HMS Blackcap, which was just down the road.
The service was conducted by the vicar, the Rev Elaine Chegwin-Hall, assisted by Eirlyss Jessop, a recently qualified lay reader who lives in the village.
The local PCSO, Dave Mahon, laid a wreath on behalf of Cheshire Police and other other wreaths were laid by Thorn Cross Young Offenders Institute, Appleton Parish Council, The Manchester Association of the Fleet Air Arm and St Cross Church vergers.
HMS Blackcap was originally built in 1942 as an RAF night fighter station to help protect Liverpool and Manchester from the Luftwaffe.
But it was later transferred to Navy and more than 40 Fleet Air Arm squadrons operated there until its closure in 1958.
Other Remembrance Day services were held at churches in towns and villages across Cheshire.
