The Midlands remembers - in pictures
[gallery] The milestone anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War was commemorated by thousands of people across the West Midlands and Staffordshire in the largest Remembrance Sunday crowds for many years.
Men, women and children attended services and wreath-laying ceremonies at cenotaphs in Wolverhampton, Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall, Stafford and Cannock Chase, marking 100 years since hostilities broke out.
Army cadets, sea scouts, guides, brownies and cubs played a large part in the moving services as they stood shoulder to shoulder with ex-servicemen wearing their battle honours across their chests.
Crowds sported symbolic poppies of every description on lapels, hair bands and wrist bands.
Among the biggest turn-outs were witnessed in Dudley, where 4,000 people paid their respects at the town's civic tribute, and Walsall and Wednesbury with more than 2,000 people paying their respects at each ceremony.
At least 1,000 people attended an open-air memorial service in Cannock.
As well as wreaths laid by civic dignitaries, members of the public also laid their own tributes and wooden crosses in memory of family members.
Some 5,000 people marked Remembrance Sunday at the National Memorial Arboretum in Alrewas, Staffordshire. Organisers said the crowds were the biggest for the annual service since it opened in May 2001.
