Services being held across UK to mark Armistice Day
Summary
Services are taking place across the UK and elsewhere to mark Armistice Day and remember people who died in conflicts. A national two-minute silence is scheduled for 11:00 GMT, the time the 1918 armistice took effect.Key Facts
- The Cenotaph service in Whitehall will include government ministers, senior international military figures, schoolchildren and cadets.
- Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle and Lord Speaker Lord Forsyth will lay wreaths at Westminster.
- Massachusetts Senate President Karen Spilka is scheduled to read a poem at Westminster.
- A ceremony will also take place at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire.
- The armistice ending the First World War’s fighting took effect at 11:00 on 11 November 1918.
- French President Emmanuel Macron attended a ceremony in Paris where a wreath was laid at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
- On Remembrance Sunday, King Charles III led a two-minute silence and laid a wreath at the Cenotaph before a march-past by 10,000 armed forces veterans.
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