Today is Remembrance Sunday, a day of reflection when the nation unites to make sure that no-one is forgotten and to remember and honour those who have sacrificed themselves to secure and protect our freedom.
This year people are being encouraged to mark Remembrance Sunday by taking part in remote and socially distanced remembrance activity - pausing for the Two Minute Silence in their home or on their doorsteps.
Here are our readers' photos of their loved ones who took part over the years on active service at home and abroad as conscript and volunteers.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
5. Arnold Ferrie - Second World War
Annie McAuley's dad, Arnold Ferrie, "a proud Argyll and Sutherland Highlander, he fought in North Africa in WW2. He then went on to do mine clearance when war was over.
6. Jimmy Millar - Second World War
Wully Wilson's great grandad Jimmy Millar in Sicily, 1943
![Levi writes: "My dear dad and best friend served in the Navy he was at Christmas Island in 1956 when the H bombs were detonated in Operation Grapple X [the British hydrogen bomb tests in the Pacific]. He passed away earlier this year and died because of those bombs."](https://www.thestar.co.uk/webimg/T0FLMTI2OTMxODc1.jpg?crop=4:3&trim=&width=640)
7. Michael Peter White served on HMS Narvik
Levi writes: "My dear dad and best friend served in the Navy he was at Christmas Island in 1956 when the H bombs were detonated in Operation Grapple X [the British hydrogen bomb tests in the Pacific]. He passed away earlier this year and died because of those bombs."
8. Percy Bradshaw First World War
Percy Williamson Bradshaw was born in 1899 and lived in Buccleuch Street, Kettering. He served with the King’s Rifles at the Battle of the Somme in 1916 and at the Battle of Passchendaele in 1917, and survived