The Coggeshall branch of the Royal British Legion has created a field of remembrance to mark the people from the village who fell during the First World War.
A named cross for each of the fallen was planted in the field next to the war memorial in East Street, as well as wreaths being laid, and the Last Post being played at the service on Tuesday.
In total, 81 crosses were laid to commemorate those who were lost, including one for Private Reuben Evans, a private in the Army Veterinary Corps who died when he was just 20 from malaria.
It has only been recently that he has been officially recognised as one of the war dead, and three of his relatives were at the remembrance service.
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