PEOPLE in towns and villages across the area came together on Sunday morning to remember those who gave their lives in two world wars and other conflicts.

There were parades through both Chepstow and Caldicot and ceremonies at war memorials in the surrounding villages.

The parades included serving and ex-service personnel and local organisations including the Scouts, Guides, Brownies, Boys' Brigade, army and air cadets, Red Cross and emergency services including the police, fire brigade, Chepstow Coastguard and the Severn Area Rescue Association.

As November 11 fell on Armistice Day this year there was a two-minute silence at the war memorial in Beaufort Square, Chepstow where deputy town mayor Councillor Yvonne Havard read from Laurence Binyon's poem For the Fallen and Lieutenant Peter Barton read the Kohima Epitaph.

Organisers were unable to find a bugler for the occasion so the Last Post was played from a computer.

In Caldicot the salute was taken outside Barclays Bank by the Mayor of Caldicot Councillor Jim Higginson, the leader of Monmouthshire Council, Councillor Peter Fox, Gordon Hill, the president of the Caldicot British Legion and the deputy Lord Lieutenant of Gwent

The sunset service organised by Caldicot Town Council took place with the British Legion attending the event at the Cross on Sunday afternoon.