YORK and North Yorkshire paid tribute to those who have died through war at traditional Remembrance Sunday parades and services.

Thousands of all ages attended the ceremony and service at York's Memorial Gardens.

They were so many they filled the road outside.

Hundreds more lined the route of the parade of serving and former servicemen and women, civil services and cadet forces, from the city centre to the civic war memorial.

Soldiers from 4th Regiment the Royal Artillery of Topcliffe fired field guns to mark the beginning and end of the two minute silence at 11am after the Valedictory and the Last Post.

Led by the Lord Lieutenant of North Yorkshire, Mrs Johanna Ropner, and the Lord Mayor of York, Cllr Chris Cullwick, the city's MPs, representatives of all three Armed Services, the British Legion, the civil services, the religious communities of York, and others laid wreaths.

The ceremony included a short religious service and concluded with the national anthem.

The civic dignitaries paraded back to the Mansion House steps to take the salute.

After a short pause, the British Legion contingent preceded by the field guns led the military parade back over Lendal Bridge and through the city centre.

The York Railway Institute Band played for the parades and the service.

Dignitaries and representatives of seven allied nations laid wreaths at the Allied Air Forces Memorial at the Yorkshire Air Museum, at the airfield formerly known as RAF Elvington.

Senior officers from the USA, Canada, France, Australia, New Zealand and Poland, as well as the RAF also attended an open-air service at the French War Memorial in Elvington.

Smaller ceremonies took place at communities across the county including at Poppleton, Copmanthorpe and Tadcaster.