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UK Marks Armistice Day With Wreaths, Poems and Two-Minute Silence
Nationwide commemorations included wreath-laying and a two-minute silence as officials and crowds remembered those killed in World War One and later conflicts.
- On Wednesday, November 11, millions across the UK observed a two-minute silence marking the 108th anniversary of the 1918 Armistice, led by Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle and Lord Speaker Lord Forsyth of Drumlean at the Angel Memorial in Westminster Hall.
- Defence Secretary Wes Streeting attended the Western Front Association's annual ceremony at the Cenotaph in Whitehall, marking the 110th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme, a conflict that spanned 141 days and claimed approximately 1 million lives.
- Massachusetts Senate President Karen Spilka joined parliamentary leaders at the Angel Memorial to read a poem, while the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester laid wreaths at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire.
- A march-past by 10,000 armed forces veterans followed the Cenotaph service, as communities from Wrexham to Dover paused alongside schools and businesses to honor the fallen.
- Services also spanned Scotland and Wales, with ceremonies at Edinburgh Castle and Glasgow's George Square, cementing Armistice Day as a unified national observance transcending regional boundaries.
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