Legion is already well-prepared for Remembrance.

As volunteers sorted the collecting tins and house-to-house rounds on Monday morning in readiness for the annual Poppy Appeal, the Women's Section were busy at the other end of the Meads Avenue hall with a fund-raising coffee morning and sale (pictured).

Stalls included bric-a-brac, jewellery, books, nearly-new clothing and a raffle.

The event raised 101.70.

Though there are never enough collectors to cover all the roads that the Legion would like to collect from, this year's list of volunteers again includes a lady of 89 who has previously been the recipient of an award for her efforts.

House-to-house collections begin in Little Common tomorrow.

Volunteers will be selling poppies from outside the Cooperative store and the Post Office in Little Common over the weekend of October 31 and November 1 and again on November 8.

Recently, a party of branch members walked the eight kilometres from Fort Newhaven to Seaford in aid of Poppy Appeal, raising more than 200 in the process.

This weekend they will be on the march again.

They plan to set off from Eastbourne Pier at 10am on Sunday, walk to the Star Inn at Normans Bay where they will pause for lunch before setting out for branch headquarters.

Plans are already complete for the Remembrance Sunday parade, service and wreath-laying at Little Common.

Members will muster at branch headquarters at 10.30am on Sunday, November 9 to march to St Mark's Church for the Remembrance Sunday service.

The procession will include members of No. 2262 (Bexhill) Squadron, Air Training Corps, which is affiliated to the branch.

The Two Minutes' Silence will be observed in church.

The branch band will be based at the war memorial and will play for the procession and at the wreath-laying ceremony at the memorial following the service.

r The moment the Armistice ending the carnage of the First World War came into effect - the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month - will be marked in Little Common by a brief ceremony at the village war memorial. A bugler will sound Last Post and Reveille as the Two Minutes' Silence is observed on Tuesday, November 11.