Around 200 people turned out at Saddleworth's oldest Great War memorial in a Remembrance Sunday service.

Residents at the Austerlands memorial received a King Charles III wreath gifted by the Greater Manchester Lieutenancy in honour of the district's fallen heroes.

The special wreath was placed on behalf of His Majesty the King by the bugler’s daughter Ericka Prescott, aged eight, and her cousin, the same age, Jasmine Illingworth-Lomas.

Event organiser David Needham, said: “We were particularly pleased to see more and more children attending the event and the assembly was captivated by 10-week-old Jase Johnson, a village resident, proudly wearing his poppy in support of his great granddad’s uncle, Thomas Burns, of the Gloucestershire Regiment.

“Thomas was killed in the Great War at the age of 22 and his name is listed in the Austerlands remembrance sheet as being from Claytons View, Springhead.”

Residents proudly received a wreath from the mayor of Oldham, Cllr Elaine Garry, which was laid by Cllr Pam Byrne, councillor for the area.

Proceedings were conducted by Roger Fielding with prayers by the Reverend Lynn Woodall of St John the Baptist Church Hey in Lees.

The Last Post was sounded by locally-born Vicky Prescott and Susan Smith read extracts from the poem, The Lads of Austerlands and Scouthead, written by famed poet Ammon Wrigley, in 1918, when he lived in the village.

Further research by Mrs Smith ensured names and regiments of the men who fought and fell in the Great War were published in the Order of Service, together with a brief history of the monuments unveiling on August 7, 1920.

Wreaths were also placed by Stuart Cook, the Mayor of Austerlands, Geoffrey Fielding on behalf of Saddleworth Parish Council, Joan Sykes on behalf of the Scouthead and Austerlands Community Group, Gareth Farnam-Jones on behalf of the North West Ambulance Service and from a representative on behalf of the Debbie Abrahams, MP for Oldham East and Saddleworth.