STV NewsScotland has marked Remembrance Day in memory of those who lost their lives serving in the two world wars and later conflicts.
The country observed a two-minute silence at 11am to mark the day World War One ended, at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, in 1918.
This year also marks 80 years since World War II ended in 1945.
Remembrance events were held across Scotland and the UK over the weekend as tributes were paid to fallen armed forces personnel.
There are around 176,000 veterans living in Scotland.
STV NewsOn Tuesday, hundreds gathered at events across the country, including at the Garden of Remembrance in Edinburgh.
Members of the public gathered at the foot of the Scott Monument in the capital’s Princes Street Gardens.
A lone piper led off the ceremony shortly before 11am, and three veterans took up position on the grass among the poppy-strewn memorials, one carrying a Union Flag and another carrying a flag of the Parachute Regiment.
After a welcome address and call to remembrance from Reverend Karen Campbell, Lord Provost of Edinburgh, Robert Aldridge read out the famous lines from Laurence Binyon’s poem For the Fallen.
A bugler played the Last Post while the flags were lowered to the ground and veterans saluted, before piper Eddie Molyneux from George Heriot’s School struck up a lament.
STV NewsThe one o’clock gun fired from the battlements of the nearby Edinburgh Castle, and there followed a two-minute silence in memory of those who have fallen in conflicts over the years..
Speaking after the event, bugler Thomas Graham described the “very powerful” moment for him to play the Last Post.
“I likely shed a tear, but you wouldn’t notice it because of the rain,” the veteran said.
“It means so much to me.”
Mr Graham, who spent 24 years in the Queen’s Own Highlanders, went on: “I just thought of the people going into battle.
“The ones that just went there because they fought for their country. I could picture it myself. I could feel it.
“It was a really strong feeling”.
STV NewsHe explained that his services as a musician had been in high demand over the last few days at events leading up to Armistice Day.
“On Friday, I played at five cemeteries around Fife, people who had fallen in combat, and people who had just died of different causes,” he said.
“All around Fife. Five in one day.
“Yesterday I played at the British Legion, and today at Princes Street Gardens.”
He added: “Thank you to everybody who turned out today throughout the UK. God bless them all.”
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