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Remembrance Day - Updated for 2007
Remembrance Sunday in the UK is a national day of
remembrance for those killed in both world
wars and later conflicts. Before
1956 it
was called Armistice Day. In
Canada and the UK, the 11th of November
is called Remembrance Day and in the US
its equivalent is Veterans Day. |
Poppies,
symbolic of the blood shed, are sold in aid of
war invalids and their dependants. They are
chosen as a symbol of remembrance because those
flowers bloomed on French, Belgian and Italian
fields during the fiercest battles of both world
wars. Remembrance Sunday is observed by a
two-minute silence at the time of the signature
of the armistice: 11:00 am, 11th November 1918
(although since 1956 the day of commemoration
has been the Sunday). On this day wreaths of
poppies are laid on war memorials and in gardens
of remembrance in countries around the world.
The British monarch lays a wreath at the
Cenotaph, the memorial in Whitehall, in London
on the morning of Remembrance Sunday and two
minutes silence is observed from 11am.
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Remembrance
Day Services in Merton, November 2007
Remebrance Sunday 11th November 2007
| Nelson Hospital Forecourt, Kingston Road, London, SW20 |
9am |
| Mitcham War Memorial, Lower Green West, Mitcham, Surrey |
10.40am |
| Wimbledon
War Memorial, High Street,
Wimbledon Village, London, SW19 |
10.40am |
| Wimbledon War Memorial, High Street, Wimbledon Village, London, SW19 |
10.40am |
| St. Lawrence’s Church, London Road, Morden, Surrey |
10.45am |
Remembrance
Sunday Service at the Cenotaph,
Whitehall, London,
Sunday 11th November 2007
| Cenotaph,
Whitehall, London, SW1 |
11am |
Photographs:
Wreaths on Wimbledon War Memorial and
Wimbledon War Memorial on the Eve of Remembrance
Sunday 2003
Remembrance Day photographs © WimbledonVisitor.Com
2002 - 2007
except poppy image © Microsoft Corporation
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