Remembrance Day is observed each year throughout the world to remember security personnel who died during the two world wars.
It is also a day used to remember gallant soldiers who lost their lives in the fight for independence and in peacekeeping operations in Ghana.
A contingent of six officers and 240 men and women under the command of Captain Ambitious Nassar of Third Battalion Garrison mounted the parade and observed two -minute silence for the gallant officers and men who lost their lives during World War I and World War II.
They were made up of security personnel from the Ghana Armed Forces, Ghana Police Service, Ghana Immigration Service, Ghana National Fire Service, Ghana Prison Service, Customs Division of Ghana Revenue Authority and VAG.
At exactly 1100 hours, the Ghana National Fire Service sounded a siren that paved the way for Ex-Warrant Officer One (WO1), Johnson Konadu, the Brong-Ahafo Regional Chairman of VAG, to read the 64-worded Binyon Verses in memory of the fallen heroes.
Mr Justice Samuel Adjei, the Deputy Regional Minister, laid the first wreath on behalf of the Government, Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Kubi Adjetey, Commander Rear, of Third Garrison, on behalf of the Ghana Armed Forces and Deputy Commissioner of Police Maxwell Atingane, Regional Police Commander, on behalf of the security agencies.
Nana Agyei Sarpong, the President of the Dwan Traditional Area in the Sene East District laid the wreath on behalf of the of the chiefs and people of the region while Ex WO1 Diawuoh laid one on behalf of the ex-servicemen.
In attendance was the Garrison Band that played melodious tunes.
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