This is how the Royal Navy are rehearsing to represent the service on Remembrance Sunday

Royal Navy personnel have been preparing for their role in the parade at the Cenotaph to mark Remembrance Sunday.

For the past three weeks, 104 representatives of the Royal Navy have been honing their ceremonial skills at HMS Excellent in Portsmouth. 

Among those present at one of the rehearsals was Able Rate Holly Toms, whose father is still serving after 43 years with the Royal Navy. 

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Able Rate Toms said marching was a 'brilliant" opportunity to honour her father and his military career. 

"He joined when he was 16 and, two years later, still very young, went to the Falklands.

"He thinks that it's amazing that I get to do this because he lost so many people, he had friends and colleagues that he was very close with that, unfortunately, did pass away in the Falklands," Ms Toms said. 

She is among a diverse group – sailors, submariners, Royal Marines and Royal Fleet Auxiliary – rehearsing to represent their service, as the nation pays tribute to all who served, at London's Cenotaph on Sunday.