Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red, The Tower of London – Image by a kind contributor.
On the eleventh hour on the eleventh day in 1918, then guns fell silent, signalling the end of hostilities on the western front of the First World War.
In the UK, this is marked with two minutes of silence as remember those who fallen.
Taken from Laurence Binyon’s poem, “For the Fallen”, and words that will be uttered through the country:
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.