We remember our fallen soldiers

BBC Newcastle has been remembering soldiers from our region who have fallen in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Listen to their moving stories in this Remembrance Day montage from Alfie and Charlie at Breakfast.

Staff Sgt Sharron Elliot

Staff Sgt Sharron Elliott was killed in an attack on a patrol boat in southern Iraq in November 2006.

Sharron had been serving in the army for 16 years

Her mother, Elsie Manning, from South Shields, told BBC Newcastle of the total loss and isolation she felt upon getting "that knock on the door".

Sharron was part of the army's Intelligence Corps.

Elsie said: "Sharron had been all over the world in her job but when she was posted to Iraq it was the first time she told me she was scared".

Lance Corporal Mark Dryden

Lance Corporal Mark Dryden has mixed emotions about surviving

Lance Corporal Mark Dryden, 33, from Berwick lost an arm serving in Iraq in 2005 with the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers when a bomb exploded.

Mark was driving the vehicle which triggered the bomb. His colleague Sergeant John Jones was killed in the explosion.

He feels guilty that he survived.

Nathan Cuthbertson

Tom Cuthbertson is part of the campaign group Brothers in Arms

Tom Cuthbertson's son Nathan who was just 19 and from Sunderland, was killed with two other soldiers in June 2008 in the volatile Helmand province.

An inquest in January 2009 heard that he had sustained "horrific" fatal injuries when a local person he was searching, detonated a suicide bomb.

He had been serving as a machine gunner and infantry assault engineer.

They are just a few we remember today.