Cornet player performed Last Post at Remembrance services

Lawrence Archer played at Allenheads at 10am, Allendale at 10.45am and Keenley at 3pm. He has lived and farmed near Allendale all his life.

Lawrence Archer as a teenage bandsman (Image: Supplied)

Lawrence joined Allendale Band at age eight, where he learnt to play the cornet. At about 14, he began playing the Last Post at the annual Allendale Remembrance Service and other local events.

Lawrence by the plaque listing all the men from the Allenheads area who went to fight in the First World War, and his father is the first name on the list - John Joseph Archer (Image: Supplied)

His father, John Joseph Archer, served with the Northamptonshire Regiment during the First World War. He was wounded in action but returned home, and his name is first on a plaque listing Allenheads men who went to fight.

The service at Allenheads by the war memorial (Image: Supplied)

Lawrence has continued to play the Last Post at the annual Allendale Remembrance Services for more than 70 years and is still going strong.

He and his cornet will next appear in the Allendale Tar Barrel procession on New Year's Eve.

The war memorial (Image: Supplied)

The service at Allendale by the church lych gate (Image: Supplied)

Lawrence and his nephew, Tony Archer, at Allendale (Image: Supplied)

Lawrence’s father, John Joseph Archer, who served in the Northamptonshire Regiment during the First World War (Image: Supplied)