VOLUNTEERS have restored a map of Australia to a Wiltshire hillside.

Members of the public including several Australians, members of the armed forces, including the Australian Army, Royal Australian Air Force and the Royal Air Force also joined the Armistice Day service just outside the village of Compton Chamberlayne.

There was also a minister, retired military chaplain Rev. Bill Smith, and the service was jointly led by Rev Smith and Lieutenant Colonel James Davis, of the Australian Army.

Readings were done by the volunteers of extracts from diaries and letters home written by soldiers from Hurdcott Camp.

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Flight Lieutenant Adrian Chard read a poem entitled 'Sunset at Hurdcott Camp' written by Sgt J. W. Streets of the 12th Battalion York & Lancaster Regiment, who spent two months at Hurdcott before travelling overseas.

There was also an 11 year old bugler, Jamie Arch, playing on the day.

In a moving service attended by about 80 people, the service was held up on the Map of Australia, and the last post was sounded at 11am when two minutes silence was observed.