Spotlight Magazine
Remembrance Day
Following the end of the First World War, my
grandfather travelled to France and spent several
months burying the dead. This experience
affected him forever.
The Great War started in 1914,
and after four years of bitter
fighting the guns of Europe
finally fell silent at 11am on 11th
November 1918 – six hours after
the armistice was signed in a
railway carriage in the Forest of
Compiegne, France.
The following year, King George
V sent out a proclamation
requesting that a 2 minute
silence be held, so “the thoughts of everyone
may be concentrated on reverent remembrance
of the glorious dead”.
Since that first Armistice Day in 1919, a two
minute silence has been observed yearly at war
memorials and other public places at 11am on
the eleventh day of the eleventh month, and on
the second Sunday of November.
After the end of the Second World War,
Armistice Day became known as
Remembrance Day, to include
those who had fallen in WWII and
other conflicts. Twelve thousand
British servicemen and women
have been killed or injured since
1945.
In the words of the poet Robert
Binyon:
“They shall not grow 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.”
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