Jamaican veterans of the Second World War will gather at the National Heroes Park to lay wreathes at the Cenotaph tomorrow on Remembrance Sunday.

About 6,000 Jamaicans are believed to have served, though there is no record of how many are surviving. Proceeds from poppy sales are used by the Jamaica Legion to care for elderly and indigent veterans.

There is no fixed price for poppies and just a donation is requested.

St. Mary-born Alfred Keith Levy joined the British Royal Air Force in 1944, before being demobilised in 1948. Now president of the Jamaican Royal Air Force Association, Mr. Levy believes his peers need assistance more than ever.

"Because they are old and I am one of the younger ones at 81!" he told The Gleaner yesterday. "Everything that old people without money have got (are the problems) they need help with."

A remembrance ceremony was held in London yesterday to commemorate the five million non-British servicemen who served their army in both world wars.

Wreathes were laid at the Memorial Gates, including one from acting Jamaican High Commissioner Sharon Saunders.

The gates were inaugurated by the Queen in 2002 in what was seen by many as long overdue recognition for the overseas veterans.