A LARGS senior citizen who led the wreath-laying at the war memorial today described it as a 'very poignant' occasion for him.
Jack Ransom, 98, can remember the impact and aftermath the Great War had on a generation of people.
The conflict's legacy on his family was so profound that he was named after his uncle, who was lost in battle.
Jack was later a POW in the Second World War and endured 'The Railway of Death'. 
The young soldier was caught in 1942 by the Japanese, and forced to march through south east Asia, pressed into forced labour on the Thai-Burma railway where he endured the horror of death of close comrades and unbearable conditions which left him severely malnourished.
He was even forced to eat charcoal in a bid to prevent dysentery. 
Now he will play a leading role in remembering those who made the ultimate sacrifice.
Jack, who is president of the Largs branch of Royal British Legion Scotland, said: "This Sunday we will remember those who died and suffered at that time.
"Men slowly came back to their families but many did not.
"My father came home in 1919 after four years in Flanders to comfort his mother on the loss of two other of his sons.
"When I was born in 1920 my father insisted that I would be named exactly after the youngest of the two, Jack, who is still in Flanders with no known grave but is recorded as 'Robert J.Ransom', age 19, Westminster Rifles, killed 26/3/1918' on Bay 10 of the Arras Memorial.
"He was killed in the first Battle of Amiens. That was a German spring offensive in 1918 when they made their attempt to get to the channel ports, which ultimately resulted in the end of the First World War."
"My mother's family also lost at least two sons, so along with other families who can relate to those times you will understand how important it is to remember on 11 November.
"This is a big event for me on Sunday as I will be thinking about my four uncles and what life would have been like for them if they had survived.
"I certainly would like to have known the first Jack Ransom and what he was like.
"I have a good idea he was well loved.
"The love my family would like to have given to him was given to me.
"I like to think about everyone who died in the Great War.
"In my own family tree, I only have to go as far back as my father, most people have to look back to their grandparents or great grandparents, but nobody got out of it at all, and the Great War impacted on everyone."
Jack's mum was bombed by the Zeppelins in the First World War when she was working in a London bar.
She was also bombed by V2 rockets during the Blitz in the Second World War, and although taken to hospital she survived to tell the tale.
Jack said: "I am probably as close as you are going to get to the First World War in Largs.
Jack has a picture, probably taken in 1918, of his father on the Western Front and his gun crew on his 18 pounder.
His father as corporal in charge is looking back over his shoulder. 
Jack said: "A century later I feel he is looking at me.
"In the worlds of the old army song 'God Bless Them All'."