TRIBUTES were paid to the Helensburgh war heroes who gave their lives in two world wars on a very different Remembrance Sunday.

In line with the coronavirus restrictions in place across Argyll and Bute, and the whole of Scotland, there was no organised gathering and no service of remembrance at the town's war memorial in Hermitage Park on Sunday.

But several individual wreaths were laid at the park's garden of remembrance, while John Low, pipe major of the Helensburgh Clan Colquhoun Pipe Band, played a lament and a medley following the observance of the two-minute silence at 11am.

In front of the memorial were individual wooden crosses, each one bearing a poppy and the name of one of the people on the memorial, laid by members of the Helensburgh War Memorial Families Project the previous day.

The project's website, telling the stories of those who are named on the memorial, was launched on Saturday.

Across Helensburgh and Lomond, wreaths were also laid at the memorials in Cardross, Cove and Arrochar on Sunday, though again there were no organised gatherings.

Members of the public also attended the area's war memorials through out the day to pay their own individual tributes.

For full coverage of Helensburgh's Remembrance Sunday commemorations, pick up the next print edition of the Advertiser from Thursday, November 12.