Lest we forget.

The Royal British Legion Scotland Largs branch members cast a wreath at 11am on board the Cal-Mac ferry between Largs and Cumbrae on Friday November 11 to honour all service personnel lost at sea in a poignant ceremony.

Showing their respects were former Prisoner of War Jack Ransom, aged 96, and John Hutchinson, 88, and his guide dog Cora. John, who was in the British Army for 18 years in airborne divisions, lost his sight after tropical parasites got into his bloodstream and attacked the retina.

Jack Ransom signed up for the territorial army, and as a young soldier was caught in 1942 by the Japanese, and forced to march through Southeast Asia, pressed into forced labour on the Thai-Burma railway where he endured the horror of death of close comrades.

Thanks to Claire Meal for the pictures from the ferry ceremony.

And on Millport, the island branch of the Royal British Legion hosted parade to mark Remembrance Day, starting at the Legion Rooms before a short march to the War Memorial for a short act of Remembrance, and two minute silence. Thanks to Charles Gilmour for these photos.

Sadly, the Isle of Cumbrae has lost some remarkable veterans in recent years, including postman David Stevenson, who was a Prisoner of War during WW2, and was captured at Dunkirk.

David, who died in 2012, would have been celebrating his 100th birthday this year.

He escaped five times from the Nazis, and remarkably, was going to be shot by a German firing squad following a foiled sixth bid for freedom when the Americans rescued him at the very last gasp.

David was born and bred in Millport and joined the Territorial Army as part of the 51st Lowland Division, and part of the light artillery anti-tank unit.

They shall grow not old

As we that are left grow old

Age shall not weary them

Nor the years corrupt

At the going down of the sun

And in the morning

We shall remember them.