Region Honours the Fallen on Remembrance Sunday

People across the West Midlands turned out in their thousands to honour war heroes during Remembrance Sunday. Events were held across the region, with military personnel and onlookers marking the two-minute silence at 11:00 GMT.

A service took place at the Royal British Legion National Remembrance Gardens in Alrewas, Staffordshire – formerly the National Memorial Arboretum. Former British army chaplain, the Rev Clare Callanan, said Remembrance Sunday was a time for a "national pause".

A ceremony was also held at the RAF Museum Midlands in Cosford, Shropshire, beneath the site's Avro Vulcan bomber. Retired air vice-marshal Warren James said it was important to remember the sacrifices made in a world that had become "very busy".

Veteran Dennis Johnson, a volunteer at the museum, said he was thinking about fellow servicemen who died while serving in West Africa. Former army officer Gemma Morgan from Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, led a 50-strong group from charity Help the Heroes in the march past the cenotaph in London.