Returned servicemen and women, their families as well as representatives from local schools attended the Remembrance Day service at the Scone War Memorial.

The crowd sung hymns and listened to prayers and the Last Post in an intimate ceremony that has been held ever since World War I was called to a halt by the signing of an armistice.

At the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month, the armistice was signed in a railway carriage in a forest north of Paris.

The event became known as Armistice Day and since then allied nations have paused at 11am on November 11 each year to remember for just a few minutes those who gave their lives in conflict at Gallipoli and on the Western Front.

The annual ceremony is now universally known as Remembrance Day.