YOUNG and old throughout West Devon and East Cornwall fell silent on Sunday to remember those who died in two world wars and other conflicts.
The annual service of remembrance, made more poignant as this is the 60th anniversary year of D-Day was observed in towns and villages.
Hundreds of people attended the service and two minutes? silence by the war memorial in Tavistock. It followed a parade along Plymouth Road.
At Bere Alston, wreaths were laid at the war memorial outside the parish hall before a parade to the church. Among those attending was West Devon mayor Cllr Christine Grills.
On Remembrance Day itself, last Thursday, pupils from Lamerton and Whitchurch primary schools joined together to commemorate the fallen.
Whitchurch School music teacher Dr Tony Evans began the two-minute silence by playing the Last Post on a bugle, found by his great-grandfather during 1921 excavations on the site of the Battle of the Somme. It had been made in 1911 in Aldershot and was found clutched in the dead hand of a world war one bugler of the Light Division.
At Tavistock College the history department held a special service on November 11. Student Ed Hobbs played the Last Post. Student facilities supervisor Maureen Wilkinson carried the Royal British Legion standard flanked by Year 12 cadets Chris Ralph and Stuart Ross. Philippa Birch brough in her grandfather?s medals. Armistice Day readings were given by principal John Simes and history teacher Helen Harris.
A display of work commemorating the countries involved in the first world war was unveiled. Year 9 students Jon Vojkavi and Robynne Honey produced the artwork.
A minute?s silence was held by staff and students at the college.