When people think of Remembrance Sunday many may think mainly of the two world wars, but the day is about so much more than that, with conflicts raging in Ukraine and other parts of the world.

Ivybridge holds one of the largest remembrance parades in the South Hams as the town is home to many members of the armed forces both past and present.

Chairman of Ivybridge RBL Dermot Roberts says they’ve got a solid membership: “On paper, we've got 103 members, but many of them are in the outer villages, and we don't really come across them very often, although they regularly pay their fees.

“From a working point of view, there's probably about 30 to 35 of us who contribute and come to meetings and help with all things like poppy collections, doing Harry's Patch and everything else that we do in the Legion.”

The Ivybridge branch holds its meetings on the second Wednesday of the month at 7pm for a 7.30pm at the Constitutional Club.

People don’t have to have served in the armed forces to join.

Apart from Remembrance, the RBL aims to be a voice for the ex-Service community.

Dermot says interest has been resurgent in recent times: “There was a phase where we went through where people weren't very proud of our armed forces for some strange reason, and we didn't really look after our veterans but due to the RBL and the persistence of its members, that's starting to change.

“The government and many people, I think, appreciate exactly what our armed forces and emergency services do, how much they commit to protecting and helping the country and rightly deserve to be looked after when their careers are finished or when their families need support.

In addition to the remembrance event, there is a special garden called Harry’s Patch.

It is named after Harry Patch who died in 2009 aged 111 and was the last surviving trench combat soldier of WWI as well as briefly being the oldest man in Europe.

The garden is tended by Ivybridge in Bloom and other volunteers and a special remembrance poppy mosaic has just been unveiled.

Dermot asks people to remember the sacrifices people make even in peacetime: “If you take the average submariner on a nuclear submarine, he can be away for six months with no contact with his family whatsoever there are no mobile phones, no letters home and back and they they can feel totally isolated as can their families and the British Legion and other military charities are there to support them.”

Of the 35 or so active members a core of around 15 are from the Royal Navy with the others split between the Royal Marines, the Army, the Royal Air Force and a few non-service members of the public.

Dermot believes Remembrance Sunday and Armistice Day have never been more relevant: “I think in today's world, we can see how unsafe and precarious it is and how risky it is.

“I've spoken to many 18 to 25-year-olds who are very concerned about whether we are going to end up in a war in the next 10 years and I think they're rightly to be concerned.”