Generations of residents from across the north-east stood side-by-side yesterday to remember the men and women who have fallen in service to their country.
Several hundred people attended the annual Armistice Day events held at the war memorials in Peterhead, Fraserburgh, Inverurie, Ellon and Banchory.
In Peterhead, the crowd who paid tribute at the cenotaph on South Road braved a biting North Sea breeze as they remembered the servicemen and women lost.
Following the wreath-laying, a piper lead the crowd though the town centre, along Broad Street to the statue of Field Marshall Keith.
Local cadets from the 2nd Highlanders Battalion took part in the ceremony and Sergeant Instructor Alicia Castleton said: “It’s an important part of the year and an important part of the cadets in the community.
“Our group covers the whole of the Peterhead catchment area and the remembrance service is for the whole town.”
In Fraserburgh, there was a parade from the Royal British Legion to a service at the Old Parish Church, before people gathered at the war memorial on Maconochie Road.
A whole host of youth organisations turned out in their dress uniforms to participate in the remembrance service.
Representatives from the local sea cadets were among those who laid wreaths against Alexander Carrick’s Justice Guiding Valour sculpture before the minute’s silence.
Wreaths were also laid by Peter Chapman MSP and Deputy Lord Lieutenant Kate Nicolson before the Salvation Army band played the last post.
In Mintlaw veterans gathered in The Square to lay wreaths against the memorial cross, and similarly in nearby Ellon a remembrance parade led residents from Victoria Hall to the war memorial in The Square before a church service.
Wreaths were also laid at ceremonies in Turriff, Inverurie, Stonehaven and Banchory, as well as scores of smaller villages across Aberdeenshire.
