At 9.00pm the Town’s Royal Standard, together with other Standards and Veteran and Service groups will process from the Market Place to York Steps ahead of the commemoration service around the York Steps Beacon which will begin at approximately 9.15pm.
As the sun sets and the evening commemorations draws to a close, a tribute will be read followed by the lighting of the ‘Lamp for Peace’ undertaken by the Chair of Sidmouth Town Council at 9.30pm. Such beacons will be lit across the country to signify the light that emerged from the dreadful darkness of war and the celebrations for the end of the Second World War in Europe.