Lt Col Steve Conway, Erskine’s chief executive, said: “Armistice Day and Remembrance Sunday are two very significant dates for our veterans, as we remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice in conflicts from the First World War to the present day”.
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The Royal British Legion also held a commemorative event, Silence In The Square, this year in central London’s Trafalgar Square where traffic stopped and members of the public stood in silence to remember the war dead.
Veterans from York’s branch of the Royal British Legion, North Yorkshire Police and the Railway Ex-Servicemen’s Association were joined by hundreds of residents at the city’s British Railways War Memorial in Station Rise for a short service and two minutes silence.
At 11 o’clock the congregation at Forbury Gardens, which spilled out onto neighbouring roads, fell silent, to remember those that gave their lives in the First and Second World Wars and conflicts since. Many will remember the sea of poppies that surrounded the Tower of London past year for the centenary of the start of the First World War, and the incredible performances of the theatre adaption of Michael Morpurgo’s War Horse.
French President Francois Hollande greets veterans at the Tomb of the Unknown soldier under the Arc de Triomphe during the Armistice Day ceremonies marking the end of World War I, in Paris, France, Wednesday, November 11, 2015.
“I knew people who never came home”, he said. “To them, France owes its freedom”.
Meanwhile, research has found many Scots support Remembrance commemorations, with more than two-thirds (71%) saying they wear a poppy.
The Echo reported on the sermon given by the Bishop of Salisbury: “The Bishop said they spoke of the men who died in this and the last war when they said that their names would live for ever”.
The Queen spent the two minute silence privately at Buckingham Palace.
There will also be Remembrance Services in Remembrance Square, outside County Hall, in Chelmsford, where dignitaries will hold a two-minute silence at 11am.
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King George V began the tradition a year after the war ended.
