WHITEHILL and Bordon fell silent on Sunday as members of the community marked 100 years since the First World War officially came to an end.

The annual Remembrance Service is an important fixture in the town’s calendar thanks to its rich military heritage which, like Armistice traditions, also spans a century.

Townsfolk observed the silence at 11am on Sunday, November 11, paying tribute to those who lost their lives between 1914 and 1918.

An entry, from November 11, 1918, was read out at Westminster Abbey on Sunday, from the diary of socialist campaigner Beatrice Webb who lived in Passfield.

* For a comprehensive Remembrance Day round-up from in and around Bordon, including moving accounts of the Great War and pictures, see this week’s Bordon Herald.