Remembrance Day

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Remembrance Day
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What is Armistice Day?
Armistice Day is on 11 November. A two minute
silence is observed at 11am on 11th day of the
11th month because this is when the Great War, or
World War 1, came to end in 1918.
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What is Armistice Day?
Now, this anniversary is used to remember all the
people who've died in wars since World War
1. This includes World War 2, the Falklands War,
the Gulf War, and conflicts in Bosnia, Rwanda and
Kosovo.
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Why hold a two minute silence?
The first two minute silence was held on 11
November 1919, when King George V asked the
public to observe a silence at 11am. This was one
year after the end of World War 1.
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Why hold a two minute silence?
He made the request so "the thoughts of everyone
may be concentrated on reverent remembrance of
the glorious dead".
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Why do people wear poppies?
The week before 11 November, you'll see people on
the TV and in the streets wearing a poppy.
Poppies are red flowers which are worn to show
others that you are remembering those who died
for their country.
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Why do people wear poppies?
The reason poppies are used is because they are
the flowers which grew on the battle fields after
the World War 1 ended.
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Why do people wear poppies?
Poppies are also used to raise money for all the
old soldiers who are still alive. The
organisation in charge of looking after older
soldiers, or veterans, is called the British
Legion.
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Why do people wear poppies?
Each year, volunteers will sell these poppies in
the street all over Britain. You can decide how
much money you want to give to the poppy sellers.
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What is Remembrance Day?
The second Sunday of November is Remembrance
Sunday, also known as Remembrance Day. At 11am
men, women and children all across Britain hold a
two minute silence to remember the millions who
have died in war. The silence is usually observed
at war memorials, cenotaphs and religious
services and shopping centres throughout the
country.
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What is Remembrance Day?

• The Royal Family, along with top politicians and
  religious leaders, gather at
• The Cenotaph in Whitehall, London for a service.

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A Soldiers Cemeteryby John William
Streets(killed and missing in action on 1 July
1916 aged 31)
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Behind that long and lonely trenched line
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To which men come and go,
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where brave men die,
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There is a yet unmarked and unknown shrine,
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A broken plot, a soldiers cemetery.
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There lie the flower of youth,
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the men who scornd
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To live (so died) when languished Liberty
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Across their graves flowerless and unadorned
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Still scream the shells of each artillery.
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When war shall cease this lonely unknown spot
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Of many a pilgrimage will be the end,
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And flowers will shine in this now barren plot
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And fame upon it through the years descend
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But many a heart upon each simple cross
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Will hang the grief, the memory of its loss.