STREETS across Wiltshire fell silent on Sunday to honour lives lost in conflict as ex-serviceman and the public paid tribute.

This year's Remembrance Sunday parade was attended by veterans, cadets and active servicemen and had a special poignancy with so many Wiltshire soldiers still in Iraq.

Over 30 wreaths were laid at the Trowbridge war memorial. During the two minutes' silence a piper played from the top of the multi-storey car park.

Matthew Ridley, chairman of Trowbridge Royal British Legion, welcomed a large number of veterans and praised young people for attending.

He said: "It's been noticeable that there have been more young people involved in the last few years, and this year in response to Iraq."

Two stones honouring the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry and the 4th Battalion Wiltshire Regiment were unveiled at the war memorial by Canon Christopher Brown and a service was held at St James's Church.

Corporal Darren Griggs, of the Royal Yeomanry A Squadron, fought in this year's Gulf conflict and took his seven-year-old daughter to Trowbridge war memorial to explain the reasons behind Remembrance Sunday.

He said: "My father was in the armed forces and grandparents too, I feel strongly about the need to remember otherwise in history we tend to repeat ourselves. My daughter has a better understanding now and when she hears about the wars at school she can relate it to our family."

Services were also held in Westbury, Melksham, Corsham, Bradford and Warminster.

Leslie Knight, 89, of Warminster, was the standard bearer for the Wiltshire Regi-ment and remembered friends lost in the Second World War.

He said: "The sad thing is I was in the same woods when three of the names on the war memorial died. I was pleased how many people turned up today because there is only two or three of us from the regiment left in Warminster now."

A service was held at Holy Trinity Church, Bradford, and a parade to the war memorial in Westbury Gardens to lay wreaths. Chamber of Commerce chairman Caroline Philpott said: "I was so impressed with the number of people who turned out, it was absolutely incredible and the church was full to bursting."