A 64-year-old former pilot will be making an extra effort to mark Remembrance Sunday - by visiting more than 100 war memorials and gravesr.

Norman Smith, from Bicester, starts his 20-mile walk from the town's St Edburg's churchyard at 8am. He will then walk to Middleton Stoney, Upper Heyford, Stoke Lyne, Hardwick, Hethe, Caversfield, Launton before returning to Bicester.

Mr Smith, of Macaulay Close, who is a keen long-distance walker, clocks up between 1,200 and 3,000 miles a year on foot.

He hopes to have finished his walk by 11am - in time for the national two minutes' silence.

He said: "It's important to remember those who lost their lives. I walk very regularly and I would say that I am a walking addict.

"I do it to keep myself super-fit and because I enjoy it. This is my second year of doing this remembrance walk. The first was in 2005."

The graves he will visit are those of RAF pilots killed in the Second World War, and of soldiers - such as one in Launton commemorating a soldier killed in the First World War. Some were killed in training accidents and aged as young as 18.

As a member of the Long Distance Walkers' Association, Mr Smith has been a regular walker for more than 12 years, covering 34,500 miles. He said: "If I am feeling fit and able, I may walk a bit further on Sunday.

"I may even stop for a pint at the Patten Arms, in Stoke Lyne. Then it will be back home, get my clothes in the washing machine, and have a nice hot bath to soothe my feet."

Mr Smith, a former RAF mechanic, spent many years in Africa bush flying and crop spraying before retiring in 1994. If you would like to join Mr Smith on his walk, meet him at St Edburg's Church before 8am. But you must be a fit and healthy walker.