Thankyou to David for these pictures.

National Armed Forces Day is on Saturday 26 June 2010, but a lot of towns, including Abingdon, chose today to raise the Armed Forces Flag on Monday 21st.

Before the Flag raising, the Mayor of Abingdon presented medals to soldiers recently returned from Afghanistan.

The armed forces flag was then raised above the roof of the county hall.

At a reception afterwards, the Royal Logistics Corps presented the Vale of White Horse, and Town of Abingdon with a framed set of pictures showing troops in action at the recent Freedom parade.