PEOPLE gathered at Whitehill and Bordon’s war memorial to mark Armistice Day.

The annual remembrance service saw military personnel, Scouts and Guides join civic dignitaries and councillors, laying wreaths and observing the traditional silence on Wednesday morning.

Primary school children were also invited to plant crosses at the memorial.

Town council representatives, including Whitehill and Bordon’s mayor Sally Pond, laid poppy wreaths at the base of the memorial in Camp Road to pay tribute to all those who died in both world wars and in every conflict since. Ms Pond said she was “honoured but humbled” to commemorate and give thanks to those who have gone before us and “all those in Her Majesty’s services today”.

Armistice Day falls each year on November 11 to mark the day in 1918 when the World War One fighting stopped.

The silence began at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month - this was the time in 1918 when the gunfire ended along the Western Front in Europe.

For more Armistice Day pictures, see this week’s Bordon Herald.