Millions fall silent to mark Armistice Day

The official National service will be held at Pukeahu National War Memorial in Wellington.

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.

“I remember particularly my uncle, who was killed in a tank in World War Two just five days before the war ended”.

Reminder: Portions of Picton and Wellington Main Streets will be closed from approximately 10:30 until after the Remembrance Day ceremonies and parade.

Nineteen British veterans were presented with the Legion d’honneur, France’s highest distinction, for their role in liberating France during the Second World War.

Veterans from York’s branch of the Royal British Legion and Railway Ex-Servicemen’s Association will pay their respects at the city’s British Railways War Memorial in Station Rise.

In Yeovilton, Somerset, the world’s last Swordfish aeroplane dropped thousands of poppies over the remembrance service at St Bartholomew’s Fleet Air Arm Memorial Church.

The WFA now gathers at the Cenotaph on Armistice Day every year, except when Remembrance Sunday falls on the 11th of the month, to remember those on all sides who fought from 1914-18.

The medals will be presented by the French ambassador, Sylvie Bermann, at a ceremony at her residence in Kensington.

“The mean a lot more, as well, because they have took the time to make them”.

At the beginning of the war, fighting broke out across much of Western Europe, where great landscapes were torn apart by fighting, allowing nothing to regrow.

‘He was anxious that younger generations wouldn’t understand this and his generation wouldn’t be around for much longer to teach them.