She added: “There must have been hundreds of people in that crowd who had been impacted by the horrors of war.”
The silence was held in Castle Street before an agricultural fair organised by local farmers to raise funds for the British Red Cross.
Local historian Maurice Hewins said: “It would have been happy chaos.”
At 11:00 BST the crowd paused for two minutes to honour those who had already fallen in the war, the wounded and prisoners of war, and those still fighting on the front lines.
“Press reports said it was very moving and nothing could be heard except some cattle and the occasional movement of a motor car,” said Mr Hewins.
