For Remembrance Sunday, politicians, members of the Royal Family and war veterans will today commemorate Armed Service personnel who lost their lives.
Today is the day on which we commemorate members of the British and Commonwealth Armed Forces as well as civilian casualties of conflict.
So how is Remembrance Sunday honoured and what are some quotes about Remembrance?
Remembrance Day quotes and poems
In honouring all lives lost in World War One and World War Two, the Falklands War, the Gulf War, and conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, Remembrance Sunday is a profound reminder of the importance of peace and unity.
Remembrance Sunday commemorates everyone who served in the World Wars and subsequent conflicts – including the many Muslims who sacrificed their lives in World War One and soldiers from the LGBTQ+ community.
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Remembrance Day, also known as Armistice Day, is slightly different – this marks the end of World War One, on the eleventh day of the eleventh month at the eleventh hour.
Different coloured poppies have been introduced to show respect to all different communities who served.
The Purple Poppy can be worn to remember animals who were killed during the wars or a black poppy can be worn to commemorate people of all nations of African, Black, West Indian and Pacific Islander heritage.
As well as choosing to wear a Poppy – whether it’s a white Poppy, purple or traditional red – you can take a moment to commemorate the fallen with a poem or a quote.
For the Fallen, Laurence Binyon
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.
Extract from Charge of the Light Brigade by Lord Tennyson
Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
“Forward, the Light Brigade!
Charge for the guns!” he said:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
When can their glory fade?
O the wild charge they made!
All the world wonder’d.
Honour the charge they made!
Honour the Light Brigade,
Noble six hundred!
In Flanders Fields by John McCrae
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
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That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
John McRae was a Canadian doctor who served as a Lieutenant Colonel in the First World War.
He died on the battlefield in 1918.
Extract from MCMXIV by Phillip Larkin
Never such innocence,
Never before or since,
As changed itself to past
Without a word – the men
Leaving the gardens tidy,
The thousands of marriages,
Lasting a little while longer:
Never such innocence again.
Extract from The Old Issue by Rudyard Kipling
A well-known quote often shared to commemorate the lives of fallen soldiers came from Kipling’s The Old Issue.
‘When you go home, tell them of us and say, for their tomorrow we gave our today.’
Is the Remembrance service live?
Each year, a Remembrance Sunday service takes place at the Cenotaph in London.
A member of the Royal Family will lay a wreath during the service and many more will be in attendance.
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The Remembrance Sunday service will be shown live on BBC One today from 10:20am.
What time is the Remembrance Day silence?
A two-minute silence will be observed today, November 10, at 11am.
Another silence will be observed on Monday 11 November to commemorate Armistice Day.
This year marks 100 years since the first two-minute silence was observed on Armistice Day in 1919.
Armistice Day honours the end of World War One and always falls on the eleventh day of the eleventh month at the eleventh hour.
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