VC holders and fallen footballers are all remembered during ceremonies

Angus and Mearns Armistice commemorations included events of special significance as towns and villages across the area fell silent on Remembrance Day.

With some schools in the area having participated in Remembrance events at the end of last week, there was a poignant commemoration of the war dead at Montrose FC’S League Two match with Annan Athletic as Legion standard bearers led the sides on to the Links Park pitch ahead of a silence before kick-off.

With the game falling on November 11, the club took the decision for the first time in its modern history to mark the fallen and a specially commissioned club shirt was auctioned to raise money for Poppy Scotland.

The Legion standard bearers included retired Bombardier Ron

Blacklaws, who was also a groundsman at Links Park the 1960s. Hampden Park also fell silent, where Arbroath FC fans were given a document remembering footballing brothers Arthur and Herbert Murray, who both fought in the Great War 1914 to 1918 and each played for Queen’s Park and the Angus club.

Arthur Murray was captured by the Germans in the spring offensive of March 1918 but was released at the end of the war and resumed his relationship with Queen’s Park, where he was club president from 1921 to 1923.

Younger brother Bert was badly injured in combat, but returned to the front line and was awarded the Military Cross for his courage in the spring offensive of 1918, before being killed in action in July in the second Battle of the Marne.

At Carnoustie, the Remembrance commemorations also included the

dedication of a bench in memory of the local Legion’s late chairman, Lindsay Martin, who passed away at the beginning of this year.

Mr Martin’s widow Norma and his family took part in the dedication, during a ceremony which also remembered Carnoustie’s two Victoria Cross holders – Lance Corporal Charles Jarvis and Petty Officer George Samson – alongside all those who made the ultimate sacrifice.

The Armistice commemoration at Johnshaven War Memorial was led by local young people.

Guides read the names of the war dead from the memorial, with pupils from Johnshaven primary and Lathallan independent school also participating.

At RM Condor on the outskirts of Arbroath the service was held in the Woodland Garden in front of the memorial to the fallen of 45 Commando.