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A previous Armed Forces Day parade in Bedford

Armed Forces Day parade in Bedford cancelled due to lack of interest

Bedford marked Remembrance and Armistice Day.

We will remember them - Bedford marks Remembrance and Armistice Day

Bedford mayor Tom Wootton is pictured honouring veterans during a Remembrance Sunday ceremony at the war memorial in Bedford

Lest we forget: Armistice and Remembrance Day events in Bedford Borough

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Bedfordshire Royal British Legion awarded trophy for Poppy Appeal efforts

Bedford mayor Tom Wootton with the troops

VE Day 80: Here's how Bedford marked historic anniversary

Bedford Borough Council will be hosting VE Day 80 events.

VE Day 80: Here's how Bedford will be celebrating

Bedford mayor, Tom Wootton, at a previous wreath laying ceremony on Remembrance Sunday

Here's how Bedford will be marking Armistice and Remembrance Day

A landing craft approaching Omaha Beach on D-Day, June 6 1944, a scene that the film Saving Private Ryan re-created.

Watch: D-Day war film streaming for free for limited amount of time

Fish and chips.

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D-Day veteran Bernard Morgan reads historic note revealing end of WW2 in Europe.

Watch: D-Day hero reads historic note revealing end of WW2 in Europe

RAF veteran Stacey Denyer proudly wearing the plastic free poppy. Picture: Royal British Legion

Flitwick RAF veteran helps launch Royal British Legion’s Poppy Appeal
Recyclable poppy is first redesign of the iconic symbol of Remembrance
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The new plastic-free poppy (Photo: Royal British Legion)

Royal British Legion announce new plastic-free Remembrance Day poppies

War veterans David John Dade (Left) and Ken Sprowles at the launch of the Royal British Legion's Poppy Appeal in central London (photo: Getty Images)

Annual Poppy Appeal is launched across the UK

Wreaths lay at the foot of the Cenotaph after the Remembrance Day (getty images)

What you need to know about Remembrance Day

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Large poppies at Wixams near Bedford mark 100 years of Royal British Legion

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Here's how Bedford will marking Remembrance Day

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Celebrate VE Day at home urges Bedford Borough Council

Due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and government advice to stay at home and practice social distancing the decision has been made topostpone these events

VE Day commemorations in Bedford have been postponed

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Royal British Legion offering D-Day veterans tours to Normandy to pay their resp...
The Royal British Legion's travel arm is offering D-Day veterans free-of-charge tours to Normandy, but as the organisation has no database of D-Day veterans, it needs your help to spread the word.
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