After a service at St Helen’s Church, the uniformed organisations marched to the war memorial where many townspeople were waiting.

Abingdon Town Band were at the War Memorial and played Slaidburn as the uniformed organisations gathered.

Service sheets had been handed out by members of the Rotary Club so that everybody could join in the responses and the singing.

A member of the Royal British Legion said the exhortation: “They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: / Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. / At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them.”

Alison Rich of Abingdon Town Band then sounded the last post.

Two minutes of silence followed to remember the fallen.

There followed the laying of the wreaths as the band led the singing of the hymn “O God Our Help in Ages Past.’

The short service ended with The National Anthem.

There followed a march past the County Hall where dignitaries gathered,

including, on a platform, the Mayor, the Deputy Lord Lieutenant, and a senior officer who received the salute.

Some people then viewed the wreaths. Three of them had been put there on Friday by local schools. There was also a wreath from visitors from the twin town of Argentan in France.

This is a video of the arrival at the war memorial, the sounding of the last post and a short extract from uniformed organisations marching by the County Hall.