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divdiv class=story-body readability=43 span class=story-date#13; span class=date9 November 2013/span#13;span class=time-textLast updated at /spanspan class=time22:07 ET/span#13; #13;/span#13;#13; #13;#13;#13; #13; #13; span class=byline byline-photo img src=http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/57687000/jpg/_57687236_57687235.jpg alt=Nick Higham/span class=byline-nameBy Nick Higham/span span class=byline-titleBBC News/span /span #13; #13; p class=introduction id=story_continues_1More than 10,000 military veterans and civilians will march past the Cenotaph later to mark Remembrance Sunday./p#13; pFor the first time, their number will include representatives of a World War Two unit known as Churchill's Secret Army./p#13; pThe Queen will lead the nation's commemorations from Whitehall./p#13; pA two-minute silence will be observed by military veterans and senior officers, political and religious leaders and Commonwealth dignitaries./p#13; span class=cross-headGerman invasion/span#13; pThe marchers will set off down Whitehall in London after the silence and the wreath laying ceremony. And services will take place across the UK at war memorials, as well as in other Commonwealth countries and at military bases abroad./p#13; pThey have been assembled under the auspices of the Royal British Legion and will be headed by representatives of the Britain's war widows, former Gurkha soldiers and West Indian servicemen and women./p#13; #13; pThe biggest single contingent, 500 strong, will represent the British Korea Veterans Association: 2013 is the 60th anniversary of the armistice which ended the three-year Korean War, in which 100,000 British soldiers, sailors and airmen served, many of them national service conscripts, and in which more than 1,000 died./p#13; pThere will also be nearly 200 members of the South Atlantic Medal Association, representing Falklands veterans, as well as members of associations for veterans of the Suez invasion, the conflict in Aden and two Gulf Wars./p#13; pAmong groups marching for the first time this year will be 41 members of the British Resistance Movement./p#13; pKnown as Churchill's Secret Army or the Coleshill Auxiliaries (from the village in Oxfordshire where they trained), they were volunteer fighters charged with going underground to continue the fight in the event of a German invasion of Britain in World War Two./p#13; span class=cross-headTin Hats/span#13; pThe contingents on parade include former members of Popski's Private Army, a special forces unit which fought in North Africa and Italy during World War Two./p#13; !-- Embedding the video player --#13;!-- This is the embedded player component --#13;#13;#13; #13; #13;#13;#13;#13;!-- wwrights check --#13;!-- Empty country is used on test environment --#13;#13;#13;#13;#13;!-- end of the embedded player component --#13;#13;!-- Player embedded -- pMembers of the Memorable Order of Tin Hats, an organisation for South African servicemen, will be included./p#13; pThey will be joined by the British Nuclear Test Veterans Association and the Malayan Volunteers Group; civilian residents of Malaya and Singapore who joined up locally to fight the Japanese in 1940./p#13; pBlesma, the British Limbless Ex-Service Men's Association, and Combat Stress, which helps those struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder, will both be represented./p#13; pAnd the Shot at Dawn Pardons Campaign will be present. Its members won posthumous pardons for more than 300 British solders executed during World War One for desertion./p#13; pBut some of the 219 contingents are a fraction of their size in former years: only six members of the Normandy Veterans Association and eight members of Far East Prisoners of War will be marching, a reminder of how few today remain with first-hand experience of World War Two./p#13; pThe marching veterans will be preceded by serving members of the armed forces, including a largely female contingent representing the RAF./p#13; /div/divbrbrcentera href=http://www.wizardrss.comPowered By WizardRSS.com/a | a href=http://www.wizardrss.comFull Text RSS Feed/a | a href=http://www.amazon.com/RFID-Blocking-Cards-Identity-Protector/dp/B00CJHZLEWRFID/a | a href=http://www.wpzonbuilder.comAmazon Affiliate/a/center