WE asked our readers who they were taking time to remember this Remembrance Day. Here's what they said.

Christine Murphy said: "My two great uncles, James and Charles Smith from Hexham. Young boys who were killed in France not long after the beginning of the First World War. Their names are on the cenotaph in Hexham Park."

Sarah Brown said: "My great uncle Able Seaman Bill Philipson, lost at sea in the Battle of Crete, in the Second World War. He sailed on the HMS Kelly and is remembered on the war memorial in Allenheads."

Amy Murray said: "My dad's mam lost three brothers in the space of three weeks in 1918. My mam's mam lost her youngest brother in the same year."

Pamela Jewitt said she was remembering her father who was killed in 1944.

Noreen Curtis commented: "My mum and dad. Rest in peace."

Eve Jackson and Ray Bather both said they were remembering 'all of them' who have been killed in conflicts.

Viv Scott added: "All the animals every single one of them."