A SPECIAL tribute to remember all those who gave their lives during service was paid at an Irvine school.

Pupils, staff and members of the community joined together at Annick Primary for a Centenary Remembrance Service.

Just after the Irvine Times went to print last week there was the official opening of the school’s ‘Great War Wood’.

In commemoration pupils will be planting 243 trees in the wood over the next week – each tree dedicated to one of the 243 local servicemen and woman from Irvine who died during the Great War and will be planted in order of their death.

All 243 trees have been donated by the Woodlands trust.

Two trees were planted on November 11, the day of the service, in honour of two local servicemen who received the Victoria Cross – Private Ross Tollerton, who survived the war, and the second in memory of Captain Harry Ranken.

Primary seven pupils conducted the service – from beginning to end – with a WW1 poem, P7 choir, a minute silence and a walk around the ‘Great War Wood’.

North Ayrshire Provost Joan Sturgeon, representatives from The Royal British Legion and also Annick Primary pupils each laid a wreath at the end of the service.