Oxfordshire's war dead will be remembered at ceremonies across the county this weekend.

In Oxford, the main service will be in St Giles on Sunday at 10.15am, where hundreds of people will gather for the traditional wreath-laying ceremony.

A remembrance day service is also being held on Sunday at the Commonwealth War Graves cemetery in North Hinksey Lane, Botley.

For the first time, a speaker with a Jewish background has been asked to give the address.

A fly-past by aircraft from the University Air Squadron at RAF Benson will be a feature of Abingdon's Act of Remembrance on Sunday. It will be done after the two minutes silence.

Members of Abingdon Town Council will start the day with a procession lead by Abingdon Band to St Helen's Church, for the service which starts at 10am. They will then lead another procession to the War Memorial for the Act of Remembrance which takes place at 11am.

Involved will be a 60-strong detachment of soldiers from Dalton Barracks who will provide the guard of honour at the cenotaph.

Didcot's main act of Remembrance will take place at a united service at the Memorial Sundial, Smallbone Recreation Ground, on Sunday afternoon.

On Saturday in common with towns and villages across the country, maroons will be fired at Edmonds Park to mark the start and the end of two minutes' silence on Armistice Day - at 11am on the 11th day of the 11th month.

Standards including the Union flag and the standards of Didcot and District branch of the Royal British Legion and the branch women's section will be lowered in silent tribute at the Memorial Sundial.

On Sunday, the Oxford Caledonian Pipes and Drums will lead a parade from the Edinburgh Drive car park at 2.45pm along Broadway to the Memorial Sundial in Britwell Road where the band of the Salvation Army from Abingdon will play during the service.

Poppy wreaths will be laid by representatives of the Legion and other ex-service organisations, the town council and South Oxfordshire District Council, the Red Cross, St John Ambulance, Scouts and Guides and other groups.

In Wallingford, residents will remember the war dead and Armistice Day this weekend in two remembrance ceremonies.

On Saturday, at 11am on the 11th day of the 11th month, two minutes silence will be observed in Market Place.

At 11am, after The Last Post and two minutes silence again, wreaths will be laid at the War Memorial.

The Mayor will be hosting a civic reception for invited dignitaries in the Town Hall at 12.15pm after the Remembrance Service in St Mary's Church.

In Woodstock, a service of Remembrance at Marlborough School earlier this week was attended by the town's branch of the Royal British Legion.

In Witney, The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association is raising funds with a Christmas bazaar and craft fair at the Corn Exchange, Market Square, on Saturday from 10am to 4pm.

On the same day from 10am to 4pm, relatives and friends invited to plant small crosses at the new Field of Remembrance at the war memorial, Church Green.

On Sunday, there will be a parade of service groups to war memorial at Church Green, 10.40am, with laying of wreaths followed by a service in St Mary's Church.

Bicester's Remembrance service begins with a laying of wreaths at the war memorial in the churchyard of St Edburg's parish church at about 10.50am.

Just after 11am a service will be held in the church and from about 11.45am a parade of organisations in the town will march along The Causeway and around Market Square. The parade will disband in the Bure Place car park off Manorsfield Road.

Silence will fall across the Wantage and Grove area on Saturday and Sunday, as communities remember those who lost their lives in war.

Members of the armed services will join ex-servicemen, cadets, councillors, representatives of various organisations, and local residents, to mark Remembrance Sunday.