Remembrance Day is observed on November 11 as hostilities formally ended ‘at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month’ of 1918.
Remembrance Day (also known as Poppy Day owing to the tradition of wearing a remembrance poppy) is a memorial day observed since the end of the First World War in 1919 to honour armed forces members who have died in the line of duty
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13. In remembrance
Wreath laying at the Service of Remembrance at the Cenotaph in Barkers Pool in 1999 Photo: Steve Ellis
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