PEOPLE across Worcestershire fell silent at 11am to remember those who fought and died for Britain.
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St Martin’s was bombed in the Second World War but has been partially rebuilt as both a shrine of remembrance and is also dedicated to peace and reconciliation.
A national Armistice Day commemoration will be held at the Hall of Memories at Pukeahu National War Memorial Park, Wellington, from 11am.
The Queen spent the two minutes’ silence privately at Buckingham Palace where she remembered the war dead with her family.
With the first stroke of Big Ben, veterans and their families joined military chiefs at the Cenotaph in central London and observed a two-minute silence at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, marking Armistice Day.
“Remembrance Day events seem to be getting stronger and stronger”.
In Edinburgh, veterans and members of the public will gather at the Scott Monument for the reading of Binyon’s lines followed by a silence at the Garden of Remembrance at an event organised by Legion Scotland.
World War Two RAF veteran George Gray was also at the war memorial to remember the fallen.
The medals will be presented by the French Ambassador Sylvie Bermann at a Kensington ceremony.
A Facebook post about their encounter has now been shared more than 500,000 times and won praise from people across the world.
Armistice Day has been marked on November 11 every year since 1919 – a year after the Allied forces signed an agreement with the Germans that ended the First World War. Millions, of many nationalities, lie buried across France’s north and east along the war’s Western Front.
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The charity’s chief executive Ian McGregor said: “This research underlines the important place the Remembrance period and the Scottish Poppy Appeal continues to play in Scottish life”.
