Hundreds gathered over the weekend across Perth and Kinross to mark the centenary of the Armistice.

Sunday, November 11 marked 100 years since the end of World War I (1914-1918), and communities across the region fell silent to remember those who fell during the conflict.

Parades were held in Perth city centre and in other towns and villages across the region.

Standard bearers from the Scouts line up outside St John's Kirk

On Friday, a number of individuals including politicians and Perth and Kinross Provost Dennis Melloy laid wreaths at the Mercat Cross in Perth city centre.

And on Sunday, a parade was held in the town with local regiments, Black Watch, veterans, military vehicles and Scout groups.

Anne Kinnes, chief executive of the Black Watch Castle and Museum in Perth, said: “Locally, regionally and nationally we have come together to commemorate the centenary of the end of the Great War.

“All generations, in their own way, have taken the time to remember and pay tribute to those who gave their lives so that we could live the lives we have today.”

A number of politicians laid wreaths across Perth and Kinross as an act of remembrance.

Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perthshire South and Kinross-shire, said: “I was pleased and humbled, to take part in the remembrance service in Crieff, organised by the Royal British Legion Scotland, as it is every year and we should all be very grateful to them for the work that they do all year round on behalf of veterans and in promoting the importance of remembrance.

“This year, of course, has a particular significance, marking the centenary of the Armistice.

“Exactly one hundred years ago today, on the eleventh hour, of the eleventh day, of the eleventh month, the guns finally fell silent after four long, brutal years of war.

Veterans parade through Perth High Street

“It was in the wake of that conflict that this annual public act of remembrance was instituted.

“The scale of the losses was far beyond anything that have ever been experienced before – this war affected communities in every corner of the land and in town squares, village halls, churches and even schools, plaques and monuments were erected to remember the dead.

Caitlin Barnes from Milnathort took part in the vintage military vehicle parade

“The numbers involved are so huge, it can hardly be comprehended. There are, for example, 134,172 men and women listed in the Scottish National War Memorial Roll of Honour.

“And this evening, each and every one of their names will be projected onto the Scottish Parliament building, remembering the individual loss of Scottish servicemen, and also of nurses, munitions factory workers, Merchant Navy personnel, and overseas servicemen.

Reece Holmes (9) inspects his grandad Gordon Morrison's array of medals

“It has been an important part of the commemoration of this centenary that the names on our war memorials are seen as individuals, people who were part of family stories.

“For my part, I have been particularly remembering someone I should have got to know, as I knew his brothers and sisters, but who died in Ypres in 1915 at the age of 22.

“Amongst those names projected onto the parliament will be that of my great uncle, John Curran, a private in the King’s Own Scottish Borderers, who was killed in 1915 and, along with 54,000 others whose bodies were never found, he is memorialised on the Menin Gate.

“I will remember him. We must remember them all.”

Black Watch veteran Connor Nichols with his daughter Lottie at the parade

And John Swinney, MSP for Perthshire North, was at the act of remembrance in Perth city centre.

He said: “I was both honoured and humbled to take part in Perth’s annual dedication of the garden of remembrance.

“Every year, remembrance services provide an opportunity for us to reflect upon the extraordinary courage displayed by ordinary men and women.

Veterans remember their fallen comrades during Friday's act of remembrance at Perth's Mercat Cross

“This year is particularly poignant, with Sunday marking 100 years to the day since the signing of the Armistice that ended the Great War.

“As the years pass, it is important that the sacrifice of those touched by conflict is never forgotten.

“Rather, it is our responsibility to honour their memory and ensure that we never take for granted the life and liberty we enjoy.

“To that end, I am sure that the people of Perthshire will take pause over the next few days to pay tribute to those who fell or were injured in war.”

●More pictures from the Perth Remembrance Day will be featured in Friday’s PA.