The Nation’s War Dead Have Been Remembered Across Britain As a Two-Minute Silence Was Observed For Armistice Day
Prince Harry led the Nation In Remembrance Of The Nation’s Brave Servicemen and Women Who Died In Battle
Laying a Wreath at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire, and then reading a Poem which was written by the First World War Poet Rupert Brooke
The Soldier
“If I should die, think only this of me:
That there’s some corner of a foreign field
That Is Forever England. There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,
A body of England’s, breathing English air,
Washed by the rivers, blest by the suns of home.
And think, this heart, all evil shed away,
A pulse in the eternal mind, no less
Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;
Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;
And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,
In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.”
Armistice Day Is Held Every Year on 11th November To Mark The Day In 1918 When The Fighting In World War One Stopped. The Allies and Germany signed an Armistice in a Railway Carriage in France at 05.00. Six hours later
at 11.00, the fighting ceased.
Following this, King George V announced that a two-minute silence would take place in 1919, four days before the first anniversary of Armistice Day.
The silence continues to be observed to this day, on the 11th hour, of the 11th day of the 11th month, when the guns finally fell silent.
Commemorations were held at the Cenotaph in London, Bristol, Edinburgh, Manchester, Belfast, Breacon, and Trafalgar Square, with hundreds of people in attendance to pay their respects, whilst many other ceremonies also took place in Churches, Offices, Schools and other public places across the UK.
Fields of Remembrance have also been planted in the grounds of Westminster Abbey, with additional fields across the Country in Staffordshire,
Cardiff, Royal Wootton Bassett, Belfast and Gateshead, combining a total of
120,000 poppies, with personal messages to those who lost their life in service.
Veteran’s and Politicians laid wreath’s at Edinburgh’s Scott Monument, where Edinburgh’s Castle Gun was fired at 11.00 a.m.,
and at Bristol College Green 19,240 hand-knitted shrouds were laid out on the grass, to mark the thousands of heroes who lost their lives on just the first day of the Battle of the Somme.
The Western Front Association also held an annual service at the Cenotaph in Whitehall, where veterans and personnel laid wreaths.
Armistice Day Is Followed By Remembrance Sunday on 13th November 2016, When Senior Members of The Royal Family, and Politicians Will Pay Their Respects at the Cenotaph Memorial in London.
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