Acts Of Remembrance Around UK For War Dead

The UK has stopped to remember its war dead on Armistice Day, pausing for the traditional two-minute silence at events across the country.

Acts of remembrance included a service at the national Armed Forces Memorial in Staffordshire, with Dorothy Ellis, the last surviving First World War widow, among the guests at the outdoor event.

Senior representatives of the Government and the armed forces also attended the service at the National Memorial Arboretum in Alrewas, near Burton-on-Trent.

The Portland stone memorial bears the names of more than 16,000 fallen service personnel.

Dorothy Ellis (L) looks on as wreaths are laid at the Armed Forces Memorial

Designed to complement the Cenotaph in London, which commemorates the victims of the First and Second World Wars, it honours those who have died in the line of duty since 1948.

It is designed so a shaft of sunlight shines onto its central sculpture to mark the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, in remembrance of the end of World War One.

Events held in London included one at the Lloyd's of London market in the City attended by the Chelsea Pensioners, and another in Trafalgar Square featuring musical performances and readings.

An event to mark Armistice Day in London's Trafalgar Square

Also at 11am, the funeral took place of Harold Percival, a wartime airman who died in October aged 99 with no close family or friends.

Following an internet campaign, hundreds of people attended the service at Lytham Park Crematorium in Lytham St Annes, Lancashire.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, The Most Rev Justin Welby, visited the Cenotaph in Whitehall, as well as the Ministry of Defence where he was updated on military operations.

The funeral of Harold Percival in Lancashire

"At this time of year it's essential that we remember and give thanks for all those who gave their lives for the sake of freedom in the two World Wars, and also remember those who still risk their lives as servicemen and women in our Armed Forces," he said.

The Duke of Edinburgh at the Last Post ceremony in Ypres

"It's a time to recommit ourselves to the cause of peace and to seek to play our own small part as agents of reconciliation."

The Duke of Edinburgh travelled to Belgium to honour troops who fell in some of the First World War's deadliest battles.

The 92-year-old took part in the Last Post ceremony at the Menin Gate in Ypres, where he collected soil from Flanders Fields for a memorial garden at Wellington Barracks in London.

Hundreds of people gathered at the Menin Gate, a vast stone monument engraved with the names of nearly 55,000 British and Commonwealth solders who died in the First World War and whose bodies have never been recovered

President Barack Obama places a wreath

In neighbouring France, President Francois Hollande was jeered by protesters as he laid a wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.

In the United States, President Barack Obama attended a service for war veterans at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. 

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