Pastor Peter Lott gave the service of remembrance, reminding his audience the day commemorated the moment 97 years ago when the guns fell silent after four years of unspeakable tragedy in which millions of lives were lost.

"As a fledgling nation, over 300,000 Australians left our shores to fight in what became know as the Great War - 60,000 of them were never to return," Pastor Lott said.

"And only one out of three Australians came through that war physically unscathed, but as we now know, they were all mentally and emotionally scarred."

He asked everyone to remember the fallen from this and other conflicts, "not only on days like today, but on other days as well, and especially on those days when we need the moral conviction t do what is right".

Community groups and schools then laid wreaths at the foot of the cenotaph.

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