Armistice Day in Teesside
People are being urged to remember the fallen today
A World War 2 veteran from Teesside has been telling us about some of his memories on Armistice Day.
99 year-old Dennis Smith was sent to France in 1944 before joining the Black Watch regiment.
He's been telling us some of his memories: "This Sergeant asked us to put our tunics on and to follow him and as we were going out, someone said: 'What mob is this?' This figure turned around and the Sergeant Major in his full regalia said: 'This mob laddy is no mob, but the Royal Highland regiment, the Black Watch, take it with respect.
Another memory he had was when he had to deliver a Jeep: "I couldn't see anything, I could see some bodies lying about, I'm starting to get shelled and the more shelled, the faster I went until I could see the camp. I got out, the Sergeant Major come up to me and said: 'What do you think you're doing?' I said: 'I brought this Jeep back from the workshop', he said 'oh yeah. Look behind you.' All I could see was a cloud of dust. I forgot the golden rule that dust means death."
Dennis lives in a care home in Eston now.
His son, Paul, said: "Like many others at the time he was just a young person joining up to defend the country and you didn't think twice about it, so I think it's very, very important that we remember the sacrifices that were made.
"I was born after the war so I had no idea, apart from watching war films on TV, what the experience was like and listening to my dad you just realise that a lot of it alright it did involve some action and some scary moments, but a lot of it was just getting through it and doing a job like picking up a Jeep from a depot.
"They helped each other so it became a very challenging experience but there were moments of fun or moments of relief amongst all of that danger.
"This country produces some absolutely brilliant people and when the chips are down, they'll put themselves on the line and they'll do things for the greater good of everyone in the country.
"It's a tremendous sacrifice because you're sacrificing your life to some degree for some people, but if not your life, you're sacrificing your time, freedom, you've signed up, you're in a different country, you're facing danger and that's a tremendous thing to do.
"A lot of us who were born after the war we just think 'oh, people were running around with guns, firing at each other, and having a good time' and it wasn't. It was much more than that and I think that's important to remember."