Thousands came together to honour the war dead at services across the borough on Armistice Day and Remembrance Sunday.

The Mayor of Epsom and Ewell, Councillor Sheila Carlson, led veterans, serving soldiers and councillors in a short service of remembrance on Friday, November 11, at the clock tower in Epsom’s town centre.

On Sunday the mayor attended a service at St Mary’s Church in Ewell with MP for Epsom and Ewell Chris Grayling.

Wreaths were laid at war memorials across the borough including the memorial at Epsom Cemetery in Ashley Road and the Horton War Memorial.

Doves were released by the mayor at the memorial in Horton Lane which was erected in 2004 following a campaign by former labour councillor and mayor, Alan Carlson and resident David Day.

The memorial is dedicated to the patients who died and were buried in Horton Hospital Cemetery from 1839 to 1955 and to the servicemen of both WW1 and 2 who were buried there.

More than 300 former students of Epsom College were killed in action during World War One and Two, and on Friday the current students took part in a service of remembrance and held a concert. Alan Scadding, former head of history and politics and archivist at the college, said: “There’s been a lot of talk over the years about a lost generation which I still think has some mileage.

“That’s one of the reason WW1 was so sad because it was a whole generation that was lost.”

This Remembrance Sunday we have taken a look back at the lives of just three of the college’s many war heroes, past and present."