Thousands of people paid homage to Britain's war dead during Remembrance Day services across the district.

And a monument to the Bradford Pals and other West Yorkshiremen who fought during World War One was unveiled in Centenary Square, Bradford.

In the city, hundreds of people watched the Remembrance Sunday parade make its way from Centenary Square to the Cenotaph, pictured.

Veterans from World War Two and other conflicts - some in wheelchairs and many proudly wearing their medals - marched through the streets.

They were joined by Royal British Legion standard bearers, Territorial Army representatives from the Belle Vue and Thornbury barracks, West Yorkshire Police Band and dignitaries including the Lord Mayor of Bradford, Councillor Stanley King.

During an impeccably observed two minutes' silence at 11am - when the only noise to be heard was the wind blowing through the trees behind the Cenotaph - young and old alike stood with heads bowed to remember those who laid down their lives for their country.

That was followed by a poignant reading by the Lord Mayor of Laurence Binyon's poem For the Fallen.

Among the host of wreaths placed at the foot of the Cenotaph during the Remembrance service was the first ever to be laid outside London in memory of the servicemen who died during the Falklands War.

At Keighley, veterans, Royal British Legion members and dignitaries were among those who took part in the parade, service and wreath laying. And in Yeadon a service at the Methodist church was followed by a wreath-laying ceremony at the memorial windows at the town hall.

Services, parades and ceremonies also also took place in Baildon, Bingley, Bolton Woods, Clayton, Denholme, Shipley and Eccleshill as well as at Haworth, Oakworth, Queensbury, Silsden, Steeton and Thornton.

Remembrance Day services in the Leeds district included those at Guiseley, Rawdon and Morley while people in the Wharfe Valley attended events in Addingham and Ilkley.

Yesterday also saw a year of centenary celebrations at Heaton's St Bede's Grammar School brought to an end with a remembrance service to commemorate the 120 known former pupils killed in the conflicts of the last 100 years.

The memorial to the Bradford Pals is hewn out of stone from Bolton Woods by sculptor Alan Ward. On July 1, 1916, 931 Bradford Pals from a force of 1,367 were killed or wounded on the Western Front.