"We're just keeping it very quiet and very private," Bellinger River RSL Sub-Branch President Rick Maunder said. "As per the COVID-safe instructions from the RSL."

At the Lone Pine memorial in Piggott Park, near Bellingen Public School, Susan Lumsdaine observed a minute's silence.

The Lone Pine Memorial has been used for Bellingen's Remembrance Day services for the last seven years, with the centerpiece of the memorial being an Aleppo pine tree descended from the trees that stood on Plateau 400 of the Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey in 1915.

Major Lumsdaine was accompanied by a couple of local passers-by who decided to join her.

Meanwhile, a slightly larger group comprising Major Maunder, Spot Swales (representing Legacy) and Kevin and Moira Franklin marked the occasion at the town's main cenotaph on Hyde St.

They stood in silence for a minute, the ode was recited and two wreaths were laid.

A few people stopped outside the National Australia Bank to watch and a tourist from Hawkes Nest approached to take a photo.

It was all over in less than five minutes, but members of the local branch will also mark Remembrance Day at their meeting on Saturday.

As of last month, they're holding their meetings in the Dairy Pavilion at the Showground, which provides both cover and plenty of fresh air.

For more than a century Australians have paused on this date to acknowledge our fallen service men and women. Originally known as Armistice Day, it is a commemoration of the moment the guns of the Western Front fell silent on 11 November 1918 at 11 am.

For more information about Remembrance Day, visit the Anzac Portal at https://anzacportal.dva.gov.au/commemoration/commemoration-days/remembrance-day