OF THE 16 million people who were killed in World War One, 23 were from the then small village of Dearham.
On Sunday those men were remembered when the village came together to join the national beacon-lighting ceremony which marked the centenary of the Armistice.
A beacon committee had been set up to organise the event and the names of those killed in action were read out before the fire was lit.
The Rev Mary Day led a service of Remembrance.
A large crowd gathered for the ceremony, which began at 6.30pm ahead of the lighting of the beacon.
It culminated in the lighting of the World War One Beacon of Light, which took place at 7pm.
Pauline Scott, from Dearham, said a large number of people turned out. "I rained until the beacon was lit but nobody minded the weather considering what the soldiers went through 100 years ago," she said.
The event was held on land owned by John Ashcroft adjacent to the Lakeland Livery Yard and Florence House.
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