31 August 2011 Last updated at 22:05

In pictures: Wootton Bassett's final service

People in the high street during the Sunset Ceremony

More than 2,000 filled the High Street in Wootton Bassett in Wiltshire to take part in the Sunset Ceremony which started at 19:58 BST. Bodies of British servicemen will no longer be taken through the town after military repatriations were moved from the RAF base at Lyneham.

The service enabled people to reflect on what Wootton Bassett had been involved in over the last four years.

Ex-servicemen lower their flags at Wootton Bassett ceremony

In 1997 a few members of the Royal British Legion came out to mark the repatriations. But people in the town began to take part and hundreds would line the streets as a show of respect to the dead servicemen.

War veterans carried different standards as part of the Sunset Ceremony in the town, which has witnessed hundreds of repatriations of bodies of British servicemen killed on foreign battlefields.

Veteran Peter Gray lowered the flag, which will be blessed before being presented to the people of Oxfordshire.

Many war veterans have supported the repatriations through the town over the years with some of those saying they will travel to Brize Norton in Oxfordshire, where future repatriations will take place.

The Wootton Bassett union flag is handed over and blessed by Canon Thomas Woodhouse in the Sunset Ceremony.

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In pictures: Wootton Bassett's final service

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