ROWLEDGE villagers gathered at the village war memorial on Armistice Day last Friday to pay their respects and observe the traditional two-minute silence.

The memorial cross in Cherry Tree Road commemorates the 41 Rowledge residents who perished in the First World War and a further six who died in the Second World War - a considerable toll given the village totalled little more than a thousand inhabitants.

Each November, Rowledge also commemorates the fallen solders of the Devonshire Regiment and Seaford Highlanders billeted in the village during the First World War, as well as those cared for at the Frensham Hill military hospital.