'Please keep faith with the fallen and try to help': Appeal to find new standard bearer in Brierley Hill
It has been lowered to remember those who have fallen in the line of duty for almost 100 years.
But now the standard for the disbanded Royal British Legion Brierley Hill branch could be taken out of service.
It is because the current bearer, Gunner Ron Greenfield, is having to give up the role he has held for 10 years due to ill health.
The 85-year-old, who served in The Royal Artillery regiment in Gibraltar, is searching for someone to take over from him.
He said: "My age and ill health have finally caught up with me and I am physically unable to carry out this most important duty any longer.
"I am asking if anyone perhaps from the voluntary services or any other recognised groups to consider taking on this most worthy of duties.
"It just takes a couple of hours or so on Remembrance Sunday morning at the Brierley Hill Cenotaph and church.
"Please keep faith with the fallen and try to help."
Gnr Greenfield also takes the standard the funerals of ex-servicemen.
He said, due to the branch disbanding six years ago, the standard would be given to the Staffordshire Royal British Legion branch.
He added: "Despite the branch folding, it is nice to still have the standard representing the closed branch and all those members who were part of it."
Gnr Greenfield, who lives in Brierley Hill, comes from a family of strong military background.
His father George served in the Boer War and then a machine gun instructor in the First World War.
His brothers George, Dennis, Stanley and Roy also served in the armed forces.
George was stationed in the Far East for the Royal Navy during the Second World War, Dennis was in Palestine during the Israeli conflict with the Coldstream Guards.
Stanley served in the UK with the Cheshire Regiment and Roy was stationed in Cyprus during the 1950s with the Royal Corps of Signals regiment.
But only Stanley is still alive. He is aged 88 and lives in Pensnett.
