Honouring the armed forces on Remembrance Sunday
BBCRemembrance Sunday and Armistice Day are sombre times of reflection for veterans, serving members of the armed forces and civilians alike.
Horace Dorrell, a 103-year-old Royal Navy veteran who lives in Truro, has bittersweet memories of serving during World War Two, doing a job he loved but one which came at a high cost to some of his friends.
"We're lucky, we got through the war without a scratch, and it's for those guys who didn't, and their families, that's what my Remembrance Sunday is about now," the centenarian said.
The armed forces will be commemorated at Remembrance events across Cornwall and Devon on Sunday.
Dorrell joined the Navy aged 18, trained in radar and was sent to the Arctic Circle on HMS Bermuda in 1942, which was tasked with protecting shipments of supplies being sailed to Russian citizens cut off by German forces.
As well as protecting the convoy of supplies, the 800 men aboard HMS Bermuda were responsible for mine sweeping the Arctic route.
He said: "Men had to go on the forecastle to do that, there were about a dozen men there, and some of them got washed overboard and then they were washed back. They were the lucky ones.
"The commander who was helping, he went overboard and I'm afraid he didn't come back. We saw him and we got him alongside, but it was too rough to get his body on board."
"I had tough times, as we all did, but I was lucky I was on radar and was in the depths of the ship, but the guys who had the tough times were the chaps that were on the outside," he added.
At a ceremony at Truro Cathedral on Tuesday, Dorrell was awarded a letter from the First Sea Lord, Gen Sir Gwyn Jenkins, to congratulate him on his 103th birthday and thank him for his service.
"The courage, resilience and determination shown by your generation helped secure the freedoms we enjoy today," the general wrote.
Sub Lt Bone, 30, joined the Royal Navy nearly two years ago and has been an air traffic controller at RNAS Culdrose, near Helston, Cornwall, since September.
She said: "Now that I'm in the military itself, I meet people that have had much more personal experience or impact, either going into areas of conflict themselves or losing people very close to them.
"So I think Remembrance just brings it back to we honour those that didn't come home, we pay our respects to those that did but were changed and faced their own battles once they were back and lost people close to them, friends, family members."
Tresillian Holy Trinity Parochial Church CouncilIn Cornwall and Devon, people are supporting Remembrance Day in a myriad of ways.
In Tresillian, near Truro, sisters Kirsten Lean and Jacqueline Goodway were inspired to create a cascade of knitted poppies flowing from the Holy Trinity Church's bell tower to the ground.
A team of people from the village and surrounding areas knitted 5,000 poppies, which they cable-tied to a large camouflage net.
As a training exercise, the Truro crew from Cornwall Fire and Rescue Service helped drape the scarlet poppy cascade.
Lean said: "We hoped it would bring our community together to recognise and remember the armed forces community.
"This is particularly important to us as we have two sons currently serving in the forces and a long family history of servicemen, some of who made the ultimate sacrifice."
There are Remembrance services taking place in villages, towns and cities across the South West on Sunday.
In Plymouth, a service will take place at the Royal Naval Memorial on the Hoe at 11:00 GMT, led by the Bishop of Exeter, the Rt Revd Dr Mike Harris.
In Exeter the Remembrance Sunday service will take place at the City War Memorial at 10:30 in Northernhay Gardens, attended by military contingents and the public.
Sub Lt Bone is heading up the guard platoon which will lead the parade at 11:00 in Helston, Cornwall, on Remembrance Sunday, and in Truro at 15:00.
She said: "I can imagine it will bring back a lot of emotion for people who have lost people or seen or gone through things that are very difficult.
"Seeing the support from their fellow people in uniform across the branch of the military, and from the public as well, will mean quite a lot and knowing that that support is there."