BRIDGWATER held a moving Armistice Day ceremony to commemorate the town’s fallen soldiers on the centenary of the end of the First World War.

Hundreds of people gathered in Kings Square, Bridgwater on Sunday to pay their respects as thousands of people joined in Remembrance Day services across the UK.

Bridgwater was also one of the stops for the Giant Poppy of Honour which was made up of 1,115,471 individual poppies with rank, name and date of being reported missing or killed in action, as well as 800 women and 306 soldiers shot at dawn.

The main poppy was made of steel and class and stands 2.6 metres high and features a wooden box containing artefacts and small vials of soil from the battlefields.

A total of 60 million soldiers were mobilised during the war, with eight million killed or missing in action, seven million permanently disabled and 15 million seriously wounded.

Elsewhere North Petherton’s St Mary’s Church was adorned with more than 800 knitted poppies created by the local branch of the Trefoil Guild.