THOUSANDS attended Remembrance services, both big and small, across the county on Sunday to mark the centenary of the end of the First World War.

In Bicester, family members of those who lost their lives in the conflict joined the usual procession of soldiers, veterans and local groups who marched in the Causeway, around Market Square before a service at St Edburg’s Church.

For Witney's procession schoolchildren had decorated outlines of soldiers along Church Green.

There was also a 'poppy mile', which featured 30,000 poppies stretching from the Corn Exchange down to the Leys, representing the walk soldiers would have taken from the town centre to Witney rail station.

In Wantage, meanwhile, hundreds turned out for a ceremony at the town's war memorial in the grounds of St Peter and St Paul Church.

Crowds spilled out onto the streets as a procession of armed forces personnel, cadets and emergency service representatives led by Wantage Silver Band made its way to the memorial. During the two-minute silence a clip was played of artillery cannons firing and then falling silent on the Western Front – a recreation of a real sound graph recorded on November 11, 1918. Town mayor Chris McCarthy said: "Every year is special and it is a real community occasion. It was good to have so many out this year in particular."

Ann Young, who works for the police as a deputy operations manager, said it was 'fantastic' to see so many representatives from the emergency services part of the procession.

She added: "My husband is with the RAF at Brize Norton and was part of the procession and my two daughters are brownies so they were part of it too. It's fantastic to see so many people involved and I think the 100th anniversary really has made a difference."

She said she had never seen so many people at a Remembrance service in the town.

Abingdon mayor Margaret Crick said she had been most affected by hearing the names of all those killed from the town.

She said: "What strikes you is how many of the same surname there are, and from the same address."

On Saturday the town's Market Place was packed as 5,000 buns were thrown form the County Hall museum to celebrate the centenary of the end of the conflict. The streets were equally packed on Sunday for the procession at the war memorial, following a service in St Helen’s Church.

In Didcot, MP Ed Vaizey was among those processing down the Broadway to the civic hall for an afternoon service of Remembrance. And at Wallingford's Remembrance event there was a flypast of helicopters from RAF Benson, who captured the size of crowds in the Market Place

Along with the larger ceremony at St Giles, a special service was held at Oxford’s Botley Cemetery at the Commonwealth War Graves section, which was attended by West Oxford MP Layla Moran