MORE than 150 people stood with heads bowed at a short service at Petersfield War Memorial to mark Armistice Day.

Petersfield Royal British Legion organised the service, led by Petersfield vicar Will Hughes, which commemorated the signing of the peace agreement at the end of the First World War.

Also there was Petersfield Mayor, Cllr James Deane, Petersfield town councillors, representatives of the police, and all three branches of the armed forces.

Families of servicemen also attended the 10 minute service, as well as veterans and those still serving.

They were joined by shoppers, and traffic stopped along Petersfield High Street to honour the occasion.

Armistice Day is commemorated every year on November 11 to mark the armistice signed between the Allies and Germany at Compiègne, France, for the cessation of hostilities, which took effect at eleven o’clock in the morning — the "eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month" of 1918.