IT is with sadness and anger that I wrote this letter about Hereford’s Remembrance Parade and Service last Sunday.

I hope that I never have to attend a more disrespectful and insulting remembrance parade in Hereford city again.

This parade was organised to appease the chosen few who are alive and not to honour the members of HM Armed Forces who paid the ultimate sacrifice in the defence of our freedom during the First and Second world wars and conflicts since.

It brought shame on the organisers.

JOHN NORTON MM Former County Parade Marshal, Brockington Drive, Hereford