Remembrance Day
The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month marks the signing of the Armistice. On Monday, 11th November 1918, to end World War One.
In Flanders Fields
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row
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 McCrae
At 11am on 11th November 1918 the guns at the Western Front fell silent after more than four years of fighting.
Remembrance Day Is a day set aside to remember all those men and women who were killed during two World Wars and other conflicts. Armistice Day was renamed Remembrance Day after the Second World War.
Remembrance Day is held on the second Sunday in November which is the closet Sunday to 11th November and services are held at churches and war memorials all over Britain.
The first Poppy Day was held In Britain on November 11th 1921 and was a national success.
2nd raised £106.000.
Since then every November we wear a poppy to keep the memory alive of all those who sacrificed their lives for us during wars.
For The Fallen
“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”
Taken from ‘For the Fallen’ by Laurence Binyon
