In strong, clear tones, a 94-year-old clergyman on Sunday preached an anti-war sermon to 200 ex-Service men in All Saints’ Church, Lindfield, Sussex.

The occasion was the annual Armistice day service, and the preacher was the Rev. Frederick Willett, at one time vicar of West Bromwich, from where he retired in 1914.

Still straight-backed, and looking as fit as a man many years his junior, he walked firmly up the aisle and into the pulpit.

When Mr. Willett had charge of the Scaynes Hill parish, near Haywards Heath, he ran a model public house, more for the sale of food than of intoxicating liquor.