AS the rain poured down on Armistice Day, members of the Petersfield branch of the Royal British Legion and more than 100 hardy souls braved the weather to stand shoulder to shoulder to pay their respects to fallen service personnel.

Tuesday's soggy gathering marked 96 years to the day that the guns finally fell silent and the horror of the First World War came to an end.

And it followed a record turnout in Petersfield on a poignant and sunny Remembrance Sunday – with well-wishers standing six deep to remember the hundreds of thousands of people who lost their lives serving their country – exactly 100 years since the start of the Great War.

The ceremony remembered soldiers who fell during the First World War, the Second World War, the Falklands, Iraq, and the war in Afghanistan, with a roll of honour of Petersfield's dead read out in tribute.

For full story and pictures, see this week's Petersfield Herald.