Hundreds gather in city to pay their respects on a rainy Armistice Day

Hundreds of people gathered at the Garden of Remembrance in Edinburgh for a ceremony to mark Armistice Day.

- by Stuart Reid

Standard bearers during the Armistice Day event in the Garden of Remembrance by the Scott Monument

(Jane Barlow/PA Wire)

Members of the public defied the pouring rain yesterday morning to gather at the site, at the foot of the Scott Monument in the Capital's Princes Street Gardens.

A lone piper led off the ceremony shortly before 11am, and three veterans took up position on the grass among the poppy-strewn memorials, one carrying a Union Flag and another carrying a flag of the Parachute Regiment.

After a welcome address and call to remembrance from Reverend Karen Campbell, Lord Provost of Edinburgh Robert Aldridge read out the famous lines from Laurence Binyon's poem 'For the Fallen'.

A bugler played the Last Post while the flags were lowered to the ground and veterans saluted, before piper Eddie Molyneux from George Heriot's School struck up a lament.